Despite these positive reforms, Askin's government maintained a brutal prison and corrective regime that was to culminate in the Bathurst Gaol riots in 1970 and 1974.

Despite some of the more brutal exercises and physical punishments shown in Painted Faces, Hung and the rest of the Seven Little Fortunes consider the film a toned-down version of their actual experiences.

Despite its reputation as a pioneering institution for the new, enlightened view of imprisonment, Port Arthur was still in reality as harsh and brutal as other penal settlements.

Despite these occasional displays of brutal and sudden punishment, Drummond was typically respectful of the citizenry as a whole, recognizing that their help would be essential in driving the Americans out of Canada.

Despite their brutal first meeting, the two have since formed a close bond.

Despite her ill health, Mrs. Wallace maintained a brutal campaign schedule throughout 1966 and gave a 24-minute speech her longest everat her January 1967 inauguration.

Despite losing his flaming techniques, he was given brutal moves using his nails to emphasize the character's ferociousness.

Despite this, the cultists are depicted as brutal opponents of the brave doubters, largely as a consequence of using Kirby's perspective.

Despite a number of overtly fantastic elements ( dragons, seers, shape shifters and sorcerers ), the book — and the series as a whole — feels grounded in the brutal reality of medieval times and has more in common with the Wars of the Roses than it does with The Lord of the Rings.

Despite serious and extremely brutal oppression and revenge by the Ottoman authorities, the revolutionary leaders, first Karađorđe Petrović and then Miloš Obrenović I, succeeded in their goal to liberate Serbia after centuries of Ottoman rule.

Despite his lack of formal education, he wrote many books, including his autobiography, Groucho and Me ( 1959 ) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover ( 1963 ).

Despite these claims he nominated people active under Nazi Germany to top ministerial positions, including Hans Globke, Director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany between 1953 and 1963 and one of the closest aides to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

Despite this, Thiệu agreed to join the coup against Diệm in November 1963 in the midst of the Buddhist crisis, leading the siege on Gia Long Palace.

Despite earlier strong feelings against the BBC, he lectured for a BBC historical series in 1961 and made more series for it in 1963, 1976, 1977 and 1978.

Despite having written the single's b-side, Lord ( Wilkinson ) left the group soon after its release in October 1963 and was replaced by Nicky Crouch ( formerly of Faron's Flamingos ) ( born Nicholas Crouch, Aintree ).

Despite this, on 26 October 1963 the U. S. State Department cabled Ambassador Leonard S. Unger with clearance to use the T-28s to intercept North Vietnamese supply flights to the Pathet Lao.

Despite its technological advancements, the Department of Defense terminated Zeus development in 1963.

Despite the opening of a Butlins holiday camp at Minehead in 1962 which brought some 30, 000 people to the town that year, the line was recommended for closure in the 1963 ' Reshaping of British Railways ' report.

Despite a couple of minor follow-up hits, the duo disbanded in 1963.

Despite further protests from the Indonesian President, Sukarno, the formation of Malaysia was proclaimed on September 16, 1963.

Despite the construction of the A1 ( M ) motorway in 1963, which bypassed the town ( and which was called the Baldock Bypass for some years ), it was still a major traffic bottleneck until March 2006, when a new bypass removed the A505 road ( part of the old Icknield Way to the east of Baldock ) from the town.

Despite attracting considerable blame for Labour's loss of support Nordmeyer was elected to lead the Labour Party when Nash retired in 1963.

Despite this, only the Tuareg and Toubou pastoralists in the sparsely populated north and east have generated movements for autonomy, culminating in rebellions in 1963, the 1990s, and 2007.

Despite the difficulties in keeping the four mellophoniums ( which formed their own separate section ) in tune, this particular Kenton orchestra had its exciting moments ; the albums " Adventures in Jazz " and " West Side Story " ( arrangements by Johnny Richards ) each won Grammy awards in 1962 and 1963.

Despite its name, this car was similar to the 1963 U. S. Dodge Dart.

Despite his frequent arrests for illegal gambling and bookmaking, Rosenthal was convicted only once, pleading no contest in 1963, for allegedly bribing New York University player Ray Paprocky to shave points for a college basketball game in North Carolina.

Despite all these codes the cars all looked the same throughout production 1961 – 1963, the visual distinctions being the number of doors, the trim & equipment level between Standard and De Luxe and their exciting choice of colours.

Despite his skill in the field, which saw him finish in the top 5 in the American League in outfield assists three times ( 1961, 1962 and 1965 ) and outfield putouts twice ( 1959 and 1963 ), his range also produced many errors and Allison led the league with 11 errors in 1960, finished second twice ( 1959 and 1963 ), and finished fourth in errors by a first baseman in 1964.

Gammoudi first came to international attention at the 1963 Mediterranean Games in Naples, where he won the 5000 m and 10 000 m. Despite that achievement, Gammoudi was still virtually unknown when he arrived at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Despite this the club were consistently successful, achieving a long line of top ten finishes in the unofficial Welsh league, a competition they won for the first time in the 1962 / 1963 season.

Despite Pitman's new found political celebrity he narrowly lost his seat in the 1962 election by 500 votes, and was again defeated in the 1963 election by less than 1000 votes.

Despite winning the Challenge Cup for a fifth time in 1963, Wakefield had still not been able to secure the league championship title.

Despite their early successes, the group were eclipsed in popularity by groups like The Supremes, with whom they shared an intense rivalry and struggled with issues of dismal promotion from Motown, illnesses and mental breakdowns, with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Georgeanna Tillman two years later and Gladys Horton two years after that.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Despite two coup attempts in the following three months, including one by Abeid, Bacar ’ s government remained in power, and was apparently more willing to negotiate with Comoros.

Despite the failure of this coup, the United States became concerned over Honduran instability.

Despite the popularity of Gayoom, those connected to the former President hired ex-SAS mercenaries in 1980 to carry out a coup to oust him.

Despite coup attempts in 1980, 1983, and 1988, Gayoom's popularity remained strong, allowing him to win three more presidential terms.

Despite the economic growth and results in diplomacy, the government, having gained power by coup d ' etat, was essentially a military regime.

Despite an alleged coup during, this was approved, and currently new elections are scheduled to be held around May, 2011.

Despite this, 1960 was a year of unrest in South Vietnam, with pro-democracy demonstrations inspired by the South Korean student uprising that year and a failed military coup in November.

Despite the coup of 1524 she corresponded warmly with Albany, who continued his efforts on her behalf in Rome.

Despite the lack of enthusiasm among most Brazilians for adopting a republican form of government, on 15 November 1889, after a 58-year reign, the Emperor was overthrown in a sudden coup d ' état that had almost no support outside a clique of military leaders whose goal was the formation of a republic headed by a dictator.

Despite entering the union through sport, he had been influenced in joining it by wider events ; in 1980, the far-right General Luis García Meza seized power in a military coup, banned other political parties and subsequently declared himself president in what observers widely declared a dictatorship.

Despite Lithuanian support, the Soviets did not transfer Vilnius to the Lithuanians till just before the city was recaptured by the Polish forces ( in late August ), instead up till that time the Soviets encouraged their own, pro-communist Lithuanian government, Litbel, and were planning a pro-communist coup in Lithuania.

Despite his former American citizenship and academic career in the United States, Papandreou held the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for the 1967 coup and became increasingly critical of the Federal government of the United States.

Despite establishing himself an autocrat in a bloodless coup d ' état that ended parliamentary rule in 1772, his political powers did not give him the right to start a war.

Despite Kukoi ’ s failure to assume power permanently, the attempted coup revealed major weaknesses within the ruling PPP and society as a whole.

Despite the fact that he did not participate in the planning of the coup, Aubame was sentenced at his trial to 10 years of hard labor and 10 years of exile.

Despite these events, legislative elections, which were planned before the coup, were held in April 1964.

Despite the title, Kohn is doubtful that a coup d ' état against Congress was ever seriously attempted.

Despite the overwhelming contradictions of the coup being executed by mostly Northern soldiers ( such as John Atom Kpera later military governor of Benue State ), the killing of Igbo soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe by coup executioners, and Ironsi's termination of an Igbo-led coup, the ease by which Ironsi stopped the coup led to suspicion that the Igbo coup plotters planned all along to pave the way for Ironsi to take the reins of power in Nigeria.