Despite this religious purging, the spiritual significance assigned to the heretofore " sacred " numbers had not disappeared ; several numbers, such as the " Jesus number " have been commented and analyzed by Dorotheus of Gaza and numerology still is used at least in conservative Greek Orthodox circles.

Despite its internal differentiation among the conservative Old Slovenes and the progressive Young Slovenes, the Slovene nationals defended similar programs, calling for a cultural and political autonomy of the Slovene people.

" Despite AIM's assertion of political neutrality, it is frequently described by the mainstream media and other media watchdog groups as a conservative organization.

Despite thirty years of freedom of expression, the world view of the fallero can still be socially conservative, is often sexist and may involve some of the amoralism of Valencian politics.

Despite this result, the area still showed strong support for the conservative mayoral candidate Boris Johnson who won the largest share of the votes for the area before going on to be elected Mayor of London.

Despite his popularity, the Catholic People's Party refused to nominate him as the lijsttrekker for the Dutch general election of 1971 because of his alleged " conservative image " and he was replaced by his Minister of Education and Science Gerard Veringa who had a more " progressive image ".

Despite this, his relations with the conservative members of the fellowship ( and indeed the porters ) of Peterhouse subsequently proved to be difficult.

Despite his conservative credentials, Cosgrave adopted a somewhat positive attitude to the Just Society document.

Despite being placed in a position to shape the office of the presidency via precedent, Hyde by and large opted for a quiet, conservative interpretation of the office.

Despite limited television airtime, most of which went to conservative Speaker of Parliament and favored candidate Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, Khatami received 70 percent of the vote.

Despite old guard opposition, the conservative forces formed a party of their own in 1913, the Rikken Dōshikai, a party that won a majority in the House over the Seiyūkai in late 1914.

Despite the opposition from conservative Saudis to his reforms, however, King Faisal continued to pursue modernization while always making sure to couch his policies in Islamic terms.

Despite strong support in rural central Ontario, a very socially conservative area which had been the backbone of previous provincial Tory governments, vote splitting with the national Tories allowed the Liberals to win all but one seat in Ontario.

Despite his progressive views ( he was an admirer of the Bismarckian German social laws ), his conservative political thinking turned him into a leading opponent of Eleftherios Venizelos.

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 being a Republican and a self-styled conservative, Evans became known for his administration's liberal policies on environmental protection ( he founded the country's first state-level Department of Ecology, which became Nixon's blueprint for the federal EPA ) and strong support of the state's higher education system, including founding Washington's system of community colleges.

Matthews in October 2007 Despite having worked for Democrats, Matthews has said, " I'm more conservative than people think I am ....

Despite his King of the Hill protagonist Hank Hill being identifiable as a conservative and his The Goode Family being essentially a satire of many liberal precepts, Judge avoids discussing his political leanings.

Despite strong opposition from conservative evangelicals, much of which dovetailed with their hostility toward the denomination's perceived focus on social action that the Confession of 1967 in particular appeared to endorse, nine-tenths of the presbyteries approved the new documents.

Despite a conservative political climate in the United States, the magazine quickly a critical mass of subscribers, with its paid circulation rising to 2, 500 in 1950 and to 6, 000 in 1954.

Despite his Democratic affiliation, he considered himself a " Pinto ", or rural, Democrat and his voting record was very conservative.

Despite Chafee's high approval ratings statewide, Whitehouse pointed out that Chafee supported his party's more conservative leadership.

" Despite such conservative sentiments, Haggard did not view women as inferior to men.

Despite the heavy pressure from the King, the army and conservative circles in Rome, Giolitti neither treated strikes – which were not illegal – as a crime, nor dissolved the Fasci, nor authorised the use of firearms against popular demonstrations.

Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.

Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.

Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.

Despite this, the strong claims made by the doctrine of human rights continue to provoke considerable skepticism and debates about the content, nature and justifications of human rights to this day.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite all this progress the nature of intermetallic compounds and alloys largely remained a mystery and their study was often empirical.

Despite the anecdotal nature of the sport's origin, the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite its minimalistic nature, it has become the parental formal language of an implemented and ( for entertainment ) used programming language called Brainfuck.

Despite the polished and complex nature of the Aeneid ( legend stating that Virgil wrote only three lines of the poem each day ), the number of half-complete lines and the abrupt ending are generally seen as evidence that Virgil died before he could finish the work.

Despite significant academic interest, there is no consensus on its precise nature and consequently a final ' correct ' resolution has not yet been established.

Despite this relatively pedestrian assessment of the material world, Plotinus asserted the ultimately divine nature of material creation since it ultimately derives from the One, through the mediums of nous and the world soul.

Despite historians ' best efforts to find in it some permanence of character, the exact nature of the witenagemot remains " essentially vague, fluctuating, and incoherent.

Despite the dubious nature of the document, wheels were set in motion for its publication ; members of the Conservative Party combining with Foreign Office officials in what Chester, Fay, and Young characterised as a " conspiracy.

Despite the incongruous nature of his home town, he purports to exemplify inner city culture.

Despite this unique nature, public capital investment, used in the production process of nearly every sector, is not sufficient on its own to generate sustained economic growth.

Despite its contrary nature, scalability also may be found in lossless codecs, usually in form of coarse-to-fine pixel scans.

Despite being mechanical in nature, Data is treated as an equal member of the Enterprise crew.

" Despite its atypical nature, " Contendings " includes many of the oldest episodes in the divine conflict, and many events appear in the same order as in much later accounts, suggesting that a traditional sequence of events was forming at the time that the story was written.

Despite its unpopular nature, the Embargo Act did have some limited, unintended benefits, especially as it drove capital and labor into New England textile and other manufacturing industries, lessening America's reliance on the British.

Despite its unpopular nature, the Embargo Act did have some limited, unintended benefits, especially as entrepreneurs and workers responded by bringing in fresh capital and labor into New England textile and other manufacturing industries, lessening America's reliance on the British merchants.

Despite the traditional nature of the system, harmony and cohesion had been established among Rwandans and within the kingdom since the beginning of Rwanda.