Despite the bitterness of the defeat for Lincoln, his articulation of the issues gave him a national political reputation.

Despite this bitterness, they are eaten by deer, squirrels and birds.

Despite his undergoing the Kolinahr, there is a fair amount of evidence to suggest that he never entirely gained emotional control, and he feels bitterness over his Vulcan heritage.

Despite his trademark portrayal of happy, well-adjusted characters, Young's bitterness towards Hollywood casting practices never diminished, and he suffered from depression and alcoholism, culminating in a suicide attempt in January 1991.

Despite the bitterness towards the Macedonian nation whose locals rejected Serbian ethnicity, the SPS which governed FR Yugoslavia recognised Republic of Macedonia in 1996.

Despite Prince's bitterness over its forced reduction, it was very successful, peaking at # 6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and selling 3. 2 million copies, while the title single " Sign O ' The Times " reached # 3 on the Hot 100.

Despite lingering bitterness over the three governors controversy, Thompson could claim some accomplishments in his brief tenure as governor.

Despite Brookstein's bitterness towards The X Factor, he signed up to critique the show weekly on London 24 in 2010, where he labelled the judges " ridiculous " and questioned the standards of several of the finalists, including One Direction band member, Louis Tomlinson, and the vocal coach.

Despite his bitterness towards the Germans, Garvin believed in the need for a just settlement of the war.

Despite his bitterness at being torn from the priesthood, he has a growing bond with the ship that he can't ignore.

Despite the bitterness he feels as Hatsue's rejected lover, Ishmael comes forward with the new information.

Despite the bitterness however, Bulosan revealed at the final pages of the book that because he loved America no one could ever destroy his faith in his new country.

Despite his traumatic childhood Hip Flask is shown to be a calm, kind and friendly individual, unlike many of the other Elephantmen who display a great deal of bitterness.

In Christ and Caesar, The Story of Civilization, he argued: " Despite the prejudices and theological preconceptions of the evangelists, they record many incidents that mere inventors would have concealed — the competition of the apostles for high places in the Kingdom, their flight after Jesus ' arrest, Peter's denial, the failure of Christ to work miracles in Galilee, the references of some auditors to his possible insanity, his early uncertainty as to his mission, his confessions of ignorance as to the future, his moments of bitterness, his despairing cry on the cross ; no one reading these scenes can doubt the reality of the figure behind them.

Despite the modern split, numerous sources stress an integration of esoteric and exoteric approaches to alchemy.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite the split, Vangelis has since produced several albums and singles for Demis Roussos, who, in turn, contributed vocals to the Blade Runner soundtrack.

Despite the fact it had been nearly four years after the Daimler / Chrysler split, the fourth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee shares a platform with the Mercedes-Benz M-Class.

Despite the split, Naples grew in importance, attracting Pisan and Genoese merchants, Tuscan bankers, and with them some of the most championed Renaissance artists of the time, such as Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto.

Despite their continued success, a variety of tensions emerged within the band to threaten their split.

Despite never becoming Prime Minister, he is regarded as one of the most important British politicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as a renowned orator and an interesting character who split both main parties.

Despite Seddon's promise, however, there was no vote – by convincing his party colleagues that a leadership contest would split the party in two, or at least leave deep divisions, Seddon managed to secure a permanent hold on the leadership.

Despite these findings, Paez fought on, and on December 5, 2003, in Phoenix, Arizona, he defeated Scott McCraken by a ten-round split decision in what would be Paez's final match.

Despite critical and commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict and legal turmoil, as Roberson and Luckett attempted to split off the group's manager Mathew Knowles.

Despite their apparent hiatus or split, the song " Freestyler " still remains popular, being used as background music or being played alongside other dance songs of the same era in clubs.

Despite the fact that the Constitution of Russia does not explicitly determine the President as the head of the executive branch, executive power is de facto split between the President and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government.

Despite the split, Trek and Trek Travel enjoy a close working relationship.

Despite his support for religious tolerance, he did fail, however, to resolve the conflict stemming from the Union of Brest split.

Despite health problems, he was rumored as late as February 1905 to be a potential candidate for Liberal prime minister should the Liberals soon return to power, as by then seemed likely as a result of the Unionist split over tariff reform.

Despite trailing third before Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain Law eventually won the election when the strong possibility of a draw between Long and Chamberlain that would split the party forced both to withdraw.

Despite dropping Louis in round one, and once again in round four, he lost a 15 round split decision.

Despite such growing signs of an end to the isolation the group endured during the McCarthyite period, it experienced a new split in the early 1960s.

Despite the fact that the Constitution of Russia does not explicitly determine the President as the head of the executive branch, executive power is de facto split between the President and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government.

Despite these problems, Curry won by a twelve-round split decision.

Despite this somewhat shady attempt of the Tories to split the opposition, the SDF fared extremely poorly, with John Burns receiving 598 votes in Nottingham while John E. Williams in Hampstead and John Fielding in Kensington netted a mere 27 and 32 votes, respectively.

Despite this, bassist Leif Edling has said that the band will not split up and they want to stop before they " get too old and start putting out half-lame albums.

Despite its size, Berkshire has not been included in broad stock market indices such as the S & P 500 due to the lack of liquidity in its shares ; however, following a 50-to-1 split of Berkshire's class B shares in January 2010, Burlington Northern was replaced by Berkshire in the S & P 500 on February 16, 2010.

Despite this split in the online community, the offline professional LAN tournaments run by CPL, ESWC, WCG, QuakeCon, and WSVG all used Q4Max.

Despite the difficulties resulting from the split, KKE continued its opposition to the Greek Junta throughout the next 6 years.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

" Despite the Crusaders ' slaughter when they originally conquered Jerusalem in 1099, Saladin granted amnesty and free passage to all common Catholics and even to the defeated Christian army, as long as they were able to pay the aforementioned ransom ( the Greek Orthodox Christians were treated even better, because they often opposed the western Crusaders ).

Despite French attempts to maintain control by encouraging sectarian divisions and isolating urban and rural areas, the revolt spread from the countryside and united Syrian Druze, Sunnis, Shiites, Allawis, and Christians.

Despite his own religious views and his friendship with the Emperor Julian, called " the Apostate " for attempting to restore the traditional religions of the empire, Libanius cultivated long-lasting friendships with Christians, both as private individuals and as imperial officials.

Despite his father's origins there is little to suggest that Stilicho considered himself anything other than a Roman, and his high rank within the Empire suggests that he was probably not Arian like many Germanic Christians but rather a Nicene Christian like his patron Theodosius I, who declared Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Empire.

Despite commonality in religious identification, however, evangelical Christians in general and eventually the newly-formed Moral Majority in particular would come to be disappointed with Carter ’ s policies.

It stated, in addition, that " Despite their tolerance toward minority religious groups traditional to the country — including Catholics, Armenian Apostolic Christians, Jews, and Muslims — citizens remain very apprehensive about Protestants and other nontraditional religions, which they see as taking advantage of the populace's economic hardship by gaining membership through handing out economic assistance to converts.

Despite the destruction of pagan religions in Europe by Christians, most of the people who try to conserve the Dayak's religion are missionaries.

Despite being repeatedly debunked by the efforts of the scientific community and denounced as a tool of Satan by conservative Christians, Ouija remains popular among many people.

Despite her almost exclusive intercourse with Christians and her utter lack of prejudice, her purpose, apparently, was to equip English Jewesses with arguments against conversionists.

Despite this, the persecutors and accusers fail to recognize innocence when they see it, persecuting and treating the Christians unjustly.

Despite guarantees of religious freedom for Christians in Article 13 of the Iranian constitution, it remains an offence to sell a copy of the Bible in Iran, which is practically impossible anyway, since the offices of the Iranian Bible Society were closed in 1980 and all its stocks confiscated by the State authorities.

Despite Ethiopia's well-known religious tolerance, culture related acceptance issues and the growth of some Evangelical churches have also led to some violence, especially as non-Orthodox Christians & Muslims seek to gain equal economic & social status as the traditionally privileged Orthodox Christians.

Despite the imposition of Muslim rule, large numbers of Christians continued to live and sometimes even prosper under the Ottomans.

Despite broad church support for it ( even many Confessing Christians advocated such an approach, in the hope that the disaffiliation of 1937 to 1940 could be curbed ), the first edition of the text did not meet with the expected enthusiastic response.

Despite tensions in the Middle East, North Africa, and Nigeria since the mid-1970s, Ghanaian Muslims and Christians have had excellent relations.

Despite the ethical gray area surrounding the act of cloning itself, most, if not all Christians, still hold that children who may result from the process should be loved and cared for as much as any other child, since they would be considered fully human and therefore reflect the Divine image, as defined by Gaudium et Spes, a Catholic encyclical letter.

Despite its popular name, was built after the reconquest by the Christians in 12th century, built in masonry and located in the western part of the town.

Despite the African influences, Spiritual Baptists consider themselves to be Christians.

Despite Assyrians making up only 3 % of Iraq's population, on October 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported of the 700, 000 Iraqis who took refuge in Syria between October 2003 and March 2005, 36 % were " Iraqi Christians.

Despite the National Socialist propaganda which the church was made to spread, some sources tell of converted Jews in the congregations being helped by the New Apostolic Christians.

Despite the presence of this official body, Christians in Pakistan have been the victims of significant persecution because of their religion on a local level in the 20th century.

Despite being abandoned, the native Christians visit the church once every year, as is traditional worldwide.