Despite her private religion, she did not attempt to reimpose Catholicism on her largely Protestant subjects, thus angering the chief Catholic nobles.

Despite the significant resources mobilized and self-sacrifice of the participants, a series of missteps by several successive unwilling or incompetent chief commanders appointed by the Polish government ultimately led to the defeat of the insurgents by the Russian army.

Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor, and adapted after the AMD purchase.

Despite Gediminas ' chief goal to save Lithuania from destruction at the hands of the Germans, he still died as a pagan reigning over semi-pagan lands.

Despite these signs of royal favour, Cromwell's tenure as the King's chief minister was almost over.

Despite its small size, Braswell has its own police department which includes a chief, a lieutenant and three officers, giving the city a ratio of one officer for every 16 residents.

Despite the warnings of the chief scientist that the chimps are infected with a virus dubbed " Rage ," which he claims is highly contagious and only takes one bite to spread, the activists open the cages anyway and release the chimpanzees.

Despite its relatively high station clearances for its timeslot and low production costs, Dark Shadows fell victim to the purge mainly because of its young audience, who usually did not make decisions about the purchasing of household goods and food products for the family, which were the two chief industries that bought airtime on daytime television in that era.

Despite his poor military experience, Pope Leo X named him Gonfalonier and Captain General of the Church ( commander in chief of the Papal Army ), though a clause allowed Frederick to avoid fighting against the Empire, to which Mantua has been always traditional ally.

# Despite the legal precedent set by ex parte Quirin, " the president lacked inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to detain American citizens on American soil outside a zone of combat.

Despite the Red Army's crushing defeat at Warsaw and the willingness of Soviet chief negotiator Adolf Joffe to concede almost all disputed territory, the National Democrats ' ideology allowed the Soviets to regain certain territories.

Despite their religious differences, Moray became the chief advisor to his Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1561 after her return from France.

Despite sharing underpinnings with the Riviera and Toronado, the Eldorado's crisp styling, initiated by GM styling chief Bill Mitchell, was distinctive and unique, appearing more angular than the rounded Riviera and Toronado.

Despite concluding testimony by the chief of the Berlin police that Bülow may indeed have been the victim of a homosexual blackmailer, he easily prevailed in court, and Brand was sentenced to prison.

Despite this, the German officer corps led by Hans von Seeckt, the chief of the Weimar Republics army, carefully set about planning the next war in a camouflaged general staff hidden within the Truppenamt (" troop office "), an innocent-looking human-resources bureau within the small army permitted by the peace accord.

Despite the necessary means of the United States to advance a different vision of postwar Europe, Joseph Stalin viewed the re-emergence of Germany and Japan as the Soviet Union's chief threats, not the United States.

Despite Fiji's membership at that time as a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, the Great Council recognized Queen Elizabeth II as its traditional Queen or paramount chief.

Despite claims of missionaries and some government agents that peyote – from the Nahuatl word peyotl (" divine messenger ") – is a degenerative and dangerous drug, there appears to be no evidence of this among the members of the Native American Church, a North American Indian cult that uses peyote in its chief religious ceremony.

Despite the efforts of Oldsmobile and General Motors styling chief Bill Mitchell to put the car on the smaller A-body intermediate, they were overruled for cost reasons.

Despite this suspected Communist alliance, the French authorities did not oppose M ' ba's appointment as head chief of the Estuaire Province by his colleagues.

Despite Dredd's misgivings over these acts, he has described her as " the best chief judge we've ever had.

Despite the fact that the Jesuit missionaries were the chief opponents of the Bandeirantes, priests accompanied the Bandeira for two reasons: 1. to shrive the dying and the dead, 2. to ease the conscience of the men.

Despite medical warnings, he agreed only to give up coaching the football scout team, continuing as head coach of two sports and serving as chief scout and sideline assistant in football.

Despite being a eunuch, he became the chief of his tribe in 1758.

Despite the advances in trailer home technology, the trailer park image survives, as evoked by a statement from Presidential adviser James Carville who, in the course of one of the Bill Clinton White House political scandals, suggested " Drag $ 100 bills through trailer parks, there's no telling what you'll find "," in reference to Paula Jones.

Despite being divorced from Josh's mother, he tells his daughter " You divorce wives, not children " and is very protective of Cher, telling Christian: " If anything happens to my daughter, I've got a. 45 and a shovel.

Despite Rose-Ann's resistance, Gordon manages to take Selina away, and Ol ' Pa stops Rose-Ann, telling her that Selina is not a kid anymore.

Despite assurances from The Ladder to subscribers that these names would be kept confidential, Rita LaPorte took the list of 3, 800 names from DOB headquarters and the printers without telling anyone but Grier.

Despite the improbability of success and without telling Giles or Buffy, Jenny attempts to restore Angel's soul by using her computer to translate the ancient curse.

" Despite this success, Kneale was unsure about whether the character would ever return, later telling an interviewer: " I didn't want to go on repeating because Professor Quatermass had already saved the world from ultimate destruction three times, and that seemed to me to be quite enough.

Despite ploys such as telling Havok that his teammates are dead and it was all Alex's fault, Havok remains defiant.

Despite their vast differences, she recognizes Dharma's place in their family's life, once famously telling her " We both know you're not the girl I would have picked for Greg.

Despite Tenma's attempts to reason with him Johan shoots Junkers ; telling Tenma he could never kill the man who saved his life, he walks off into the night, with Tenma too shocked to stop him.

Despite his efforts, the memories are slowly erased, with the last memory of Clementine telling him: " Meet me in Montauk ".

Despite the fact that it features a nine-year-old as the protagonist, much of the game's humour is adult-oriented, including sexual puns ( such as a frog called " Horny "; Willy giving a bully a hand held game system and telling him to " play with himself "; a young blonde school nurse with large breasts ) and some satire ( including a parody of conservative American talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh ).

Despite telling her their suspicions about Bernardo, Homolka concentrated on his abuse of her.

Despite these emotions, Kiedis believed his life was better without drug addictions, telling Rolling Stone that " no matter how sad or lonely I got, things were a million percent better than they were two years earlier when I was using drugs all the time.

Despite enjoying the experience initially, he left after a year ( Possibly due to homesickness since he would frequently be found crying in Addington dormitary by the Matron Mrs Adcock ), telling his mother, " I'm out.

Despite twice telling Michael that he had never met Ola, Fredo drunkenly lets slip that they had met in Havana earlier that year.

He states " Despite anybody telling anything else, in this world everything is done for profit, so is this business.

Despite the family telling him it is just a coincidence, Homer begins to receive congratulatory phone calls.

Despite Sarah telling him about the headless body she saw, the Doctor leads them back towards Solon's castle.

Despite members of his rowing club telling him to stay out of hockey, Pulford wanted to play for the Stanley Cup and rejoined the Senators a few days before the season started.

Despite Goldman's praise of him in the book, Paul McCartney did not return the favor, and condemned Goldman's account of his old bandmate, telling fans and the press " Look, don't buy it.

Despite telling the press that she felt confident with the draw and her physical condition, Marion lost to world no.

Despite telling Ontario Hockey League ( OHL ) teams he would not play major junior, Ryan was selected by the Owen Sound Attack 7th overall in the 2003 OHL Selection Draft.

Despite his wife's urging, telling him to stop writing the episodes down, he continues to type and becomes convinced that the visions are actually happening.

Despite Sophie's initial reservations ( since Frank wasn't really much liked by many after being accused of raping his former flame Carla Connor ), she starts accepting him, telling her mum she just wants her to be happy.