Despite the offseason losses and controversies, the Brewers fans still looked forward to the 2012 season with great optimism, as the Brewers, by the end of February, had sold over 1. 5 million tickets, the most before the month of March.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite his fame, until recently, there have been uncertainties and controversies surrounding both his place of birth and burial.

Despite this, controversies surrounding the use of the anthem in school events or media still remain.

Despite their public commitment to philanthropy the Tata group has attracted several controversies.

Despite being constantly followed by paparazzi and being the source of multiple controversies, Guzmán still remains relatively accessible to her fans, and she signs autographs for them whenever she can.

Despite his controversies Strawberry is generally well regarded by the public and the media.

Despite the various controversies and refusals of certain governments to allow the film to be viewed in wide release, The Passion of the Christ earned $ 611, 899, 420 worldwide.

Despite the provision for private confession in every edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the practice was frequently contested during the Ritualist controversies of the later nineteenth century.

Despite his history of political and legal controversies, Barry remains a figure of enormous popularity and influence on the local political scene of Washington D. C.

Despite the political controversies and their age difference — he was fifteen years her senior — Helena was happy with Christian and was determined to marry him.

Despite the controversies, he was respected for his role in the anti-colonial struggle and was seen by many Arab intellectuals as one of the last original Arab nationalists.

Despite controversies sometimes associated with him, Mills remained at Columbia until his death in 1962.

Despite the controversies, however, it won them many new fans in the alternative rock scene.

Despite various criticisms and controversies, Stapp is recognized as one of the most successful artists of the modern rock era and has won several accolades, including a Grammy Award for Creed's song " With Arms Wide Open " and numerous RIAA certifications.

Despite the existing controversies, Kerry conceded the election the following day on November 3.

Despite its controversies and its downfall, the Synanon program is credited with curing some people of their addictions.

Despite his controversies at the club, Collymore helped Liverpool to third place in the Premier League.

Despite these controversies, Moscoe's first tenure as TTC chair was marked by several notable accomplishments.

Despite its controversies, the album was a commercial success becoming the band's fourth top twenty hit record and went gold within two months of its release.

Despite initial anti-cult controversies, the Hare Krishna movement today is viewed by the academics as " the most genuinely Hindu of all the many Indian movements in the West ".

Despite this, professional and skilled labour is fast disappearing from the country in a similar manner to East Germany before the Berlin Wall in an ironic reversal of the immigration controversies of the mid-to late 1970s in the UK.

Despite the controversies the album still charted at # 1 in Mexico along with many of its singles reaching the top spots.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

Despite the Spiders ' second half run, the Beaneaters swept the series, five games to none.

Despite very limited capabilities ( 98 bytes of instruction memory and about 19 stack and addressable registers ), people managed to write all kinds of programs for them, including adventure games and libraries of calculus-related functions for engineers.

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 their work, Nintendo turned them down, saying they had no interest in expanding to the PC market, and that Mario games were to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles.

Despite the good news off the field, and winning four out of five games to start the season, the Wizards just missed out on a playoff berth with a loss to the New York Red Bulls on the final day, finishing with a 10 – 14 – 8 record.

Despite a strong push in the middle of the 2007 season, winning five straight games, the Vikings lost their final two games to finish the season at 8 – 8, missing the playoffs.

Despite the team's 2-14 record, they sold out six of their eight home games in 2006.

Despite these challenges, the USFSA continued its planning for the games, adopting in its first program for the meeting eight articles to address, only one of which had to do with the Olympics.

Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included.

Despite being shut out four times in ten games, the Giants recorded an 18 – 8 September to move into first by three games as the pitching staff achieved a team ERA of 1. 78, the lowest in the National League in a September stretch run since the 1965 Dodgers.

Despite initial excitement, the guidance of longtime baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as a new playing field, the team struggled ; the Padres finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times.

Despite a somewhat lackluster library of games, the console introduced at least one notable franchise.

The structure of the latter event is such that it … justifies a belief that intelligent design is the cause … Despite the fact that the probability of winning three consecutive 1-in-1, 000 games is exactly the same as the probability of winning one 1-in-1, 000, 000, 000 game, the former event … warrants an inference of intelligent design.

Despite its apparent simplicity, Tic-tac-toe requires detailed analysis to determine even some elementary combinatory facts, the most interesting of which are the number of possible games and the number of possible positions.

Despite the graphics, players were confined to back and forth motion as seen in other fighting games.

Despite the critically acclaimed Virtua Fighter 5 releasing to very little fanfare in 2007, its update Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown has received much more attention in 2012 due to the renewed interest in fighting games.

Despite winning all three main round games, so did France and Spain, and those two teams qualified for the semi-finals from Group I.

Despite much speculation that he would retire at the end of the 2006 season, Hird played out the 2007 season, playing 17 of a possible 22 games.

Despite the layoffs, Sierra continued to publish games for smaller development houses.