Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Despite being well out of playoff contention the Cubs went 24 – 13 under Quade, the best record in baseball during that 37 game stretch and was hired as manager on October 19.

Despite creating 375 new jobs, the Wal-Mart has been a point of contention for many residents since it was announced, as fears arise that competition from a new Wal-Mart will force local business owners to shut down.

Despite playing at home, the Cleveland Gladiators played poorly in the second half and were eliminated from contention, losing 50-41.

Despite inheriting several players ( including Malone ) from the Utah Stars after that franchise failed in the middle of the season, the Spirits finished well out of playoff contention in 1975-76 as attendance in St. Louis dwindled.

Despite forcing their way back into contention, the West Indies were defeated by 95 runs.

Despite being one of the better pitchers in baseball during this time period, his accomplishments went largely unrecognized due to playing for the Royals, a small market team that was generally not in contention during Appier's tenure.

Despite Green's injury, the Chiefs continued to stay in contention, largely thanks to backup quarterback Damon Huard and Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson.

Despite considerable progress in improving relations during the period covered by this article, points of contention still exist between the Catholic Church and the Jewish community.

Despite being in contention for much of the season, Roberts was unable to win any of the dirt track events and eventually finished the year in fourth place.

Despite their lowly position of 22nd in the table, City's fortunes turned around under Johnson and a great run of form in the second half of the season saw them in play-off contention, eventually finishing ninth after a run of 55 points from 36 games.

Despite a pair of dominating shutouts ( 6-0 against Springfield and 3-0 against the Brass ), a 3-1 loss to the Chill all but knocked the Menace from playoff contention.

Despite all the changes, the Mavs remained in contention.

) Despite his stubbornness and irascible nature, Fred sometimes redeems himself with acts of kindness, even to those ( like Esther ) whom he insists he does not like.

" Despite Julio's friendliness, Fred often makes crude ethnic jokes about Julio and openly wishes he would return to Puerto Rico, despite the fact that Julio is actually from New York City.

Despite this arrangement, Fred still hurls verbal abuse at Ah Chew.

Despite being the son of a country vicar and publishing two volumes of poetry Snow was England's most formidable fast bowler between Fred Trueman and Bob Willis and played Test Matches with both of them at either end of his career.

Despite Australia's much smaller population, the team was very competitive in early games, producing stars such as Jack Blackham, Billy Murdoch, Fred " The Demon " Spofforth, George Bonnor, Percy McDonnell, George Giffen and Charles " The Terror " Turner.

Despite losing to Fred Covey in 1927, Etchebaster returned in his customary blue beret to win the world championship in London in 1928.

Despite Fred's soul supposedly shattering in the process of Illyria taking over her body, Joss Whedon originally intended for either Fred and Illyria to be split in two had Angel gotten a sixth season, as revealed by Amy Acker in an interview: " As I ’ m playing this new character now, it was just some stuff that he was going to do with her and bringing Fred back and getting to work with both characters ", or for Illyria to take on more and more of Fred's memories.

Despite this, shortly after its discovery, Fred Whipple observed that the " orbital elements of 1983 TB shown on IAUC 3879 are virtually coincident with the mean orbital elements of 19 Geminid meteors photographed with the super-Schmidt meteor cameras ".

Despite this shocking display of violence, Angel never seemed to scare Fred, and even at his most demonic, he never attacked her.

Despite near-constant police pursuit and several roadblocks, Bandit, Snowman, Frog and Fred arrive at the Southern Classic with a full trailer of Coors and ten minutes to spare, with Cledus blazing a trail into the grounds with his truck.

Despite director Fred Zinnemann's intention to typecast the actor as the comical brother Polo, Murray insisted on playing the lead.

Despite this, a trader from Halesworth called Fred Lambert brought a wherry called Star to the river, and carried coal from the harbour at Southwold to Halesworth until 1911.

Despite the decline of passenger train patronage in the United States in the 20th century with the advent of the automobile, portions of the Fred Harvey Company outlived them all, and has continued to operate since 1968 as part of a larger hospitality industry conglomerate.

Despite Brando's dedication, the producer, Stanley Kramer, and director, Fred Zinnemann, were at first worried about Brando's performance in rehearsals because he mumbled his lines and gave little response to his fellow actors.

Despite the relatively large number of " old guard " variety shows cancelled in the purge, Fred Silverman would actually continue to create new variety shows to replace the ones he cancelled ; one of the first was The Sonny & Cher Show, which debuted in February 1971.

Despite early stars like Shore, Fred Thurier, Frank Beisler and Pete Kelly, success eluded the Indians on the ice.

Despite falling over and burning his bottom, Fred manages to beat Tarpit and even Mr. Slate's score against Tarpit.

Despite his many film and TV roles, ( including civil servant Sir Frederick Stewart in Yes, Minister ), it was only during the 1990s when he joined the cast of Coronation Street as the bellicose but romantic butcher Fred Elliott that he became a household name.

Despite much press attention, the Days of Rage did not spark a Communist led revolutionary movement as predicted and fellow revolutionaries, like Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers, condemned the action as counterproductive and amateurish.

Despite the fact the song was banned from radio airplay, or perhaps because of it, it became a hit, with Libby Holman's version going to # 5 and the " Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians " version going to # 14, both in 1931.

Despite the promising beginnings, she was assigned to several second-tier pictures such as Rangers of Fortune ( 1940 ) and One Night in Lisbon ( 1941 ), both with Fred MacMurray, and The Roundup ( 1941 ) with Richard Dix and Preston Foster.

Despite the resemblance, he is not to be confused with the Frank Frankenstone character that first appeared in the episode " Fred and Barney Meet the Frankenstones " of The New Fred and Barney Show, the TV special The Flintstones ' New Neighbors or The Flintstone Comedy Show.

Despite this growth, the military still does not receive sufficient funds for modernization.

Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.

Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.

Despite the lack of complexity, there does seem to be forethought and skill in making these tools and should be considered such.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite the name, an oxidation reaction does not necessarily need to involve oxygen.

Despite this, the equilibrium theory of phase transformations does not entirely hold for glass, and hence the glass transition cannot be classed as one of the classical equilibrium phase transformations in solids.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

Despite the fact that Argentina was never the main destination for Irish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite public or media opinion, national studies have indicated that severe mental illness does not independently predict future violent behavior, on average, and is not a leading cause of violence in society.

Despite this unusual and seemingly energetically unfavorable mechanism, such transport does not require ATP.

Despite having no ocean or deep draft river ports, Niger does operate a ports authority.

Despite the importance of the office of prime minister, the constitution does not mention the office by name.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

Despite its name, an urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban area.

Despite the advantages of indoor tracks, outdoor velodromes are more common, as an outdoor venue does not require a building, making it more affordable, especially when new.

Despite these advantages in speed, XyWrite does not have as many features as Word or OpenOffice. org.

Despite her world famous role, Smith is rarely recognized in public, which she does not mind, saying " it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall ; people never recognise me solely from my voice.

Mazzini, in turn, described Marx as " a destructive spirit whose heart was filled with hatred rather than love of mankind " and declared that " Despite the communist egalitarianism which preaches he is the absolute ruler of his party, admittedly he does everything himself but he is also the only one to give orders and he tolerates no opposition.

Despite perceived differences between Eastern and Western philosophy, some of Heidegger's later work, particularly " A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer ", does show an interest in initiating such a dialogue.

Despite opium tincture being an " unapproved drug " as discussed above, a search of FDA's website does not reveal any efforts at this time to ban opium tincture or restrict its use ; in fact, the FDA has a web page devoted to patient and practitioner education about opium tincture.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Despite gnuplot's name, it is not part of or related to the GNU Project, nor does it use the GNU General Public License, hence the decision to use a lowercase ' g '.

Despite the name, the grandfather paradox does not exclusively regard the impossibility of one's own birth.