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Despite and curfew
Despite a curfew and the establishment of a military quarantine, the scientists continue playing their sex games.
Despite the curfew, the early evenings during the autumn months allow some racing to take place in darkness and the Britcar ‘ into the night ’ race has been a regular on the calendar, with the Lotus 1000 km reviving a tradition that started in the 1960s with the BOAC sportscar races.
Despite the curfew, there has been attempts of going around this curfew among hagwons in Seoul.
Despite his actions during the Japanese occupation, when he routinely ignored the curfew in pursuit of his pastoral activities, the Japanese authorities never harassed him.

Despite and people
Despite their trials, God will not desert his people.
Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).
Despite the technological limitations of the TV medium at the time, more and more people chose to stay home to watch the television.
Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.
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 an undefeated season in 1948, only 23, 891 people showed up to see the Browns beat the Buffalo Bills in the championship game.
Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like natural persons (" people ").
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 their origins & horrific appearance, the Ulkmen are a largely peaceful people.
Despite this, Crowley recommended a complex system of practices from Eastern and Western sources to help people attain Samadhi.
Despite Francis ' different religion, he felt that they were good people, much like Europeans, and could be converted.
Despite considerable popularity amongst the people, Madero ´ s administration soon encountered opposition both from more radical revolutionaries and from remnants of the former regime.
Despite the use of " Hatti ", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.
Despite this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.
Despite the need for their own people, Wolfhounds generally are somewhat stand-offish with total strangers.
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 the fact that the election results were found to reflect the will of the people, opposition protests in the country intensified.
Despite differences of chronology or geography, the crucial aspects of this religious pantheon were shared amongst the people of ancient Mesoamerica.
Despite the will expressed by the people, on 25 December 1991, the USSR was dissolved into 15 post-Soviet states.
Despite killing 34 people, Baader-Meinhof garnered a degree of support from the West German population.
Despite their many political divisions, the people of the country were united by cultural similarity.
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 the large number of mainlanders who consume Spam, and the various recipes that have been made from it, Spam, along with most canned food, is often stigmatized on the mainland as " poor people food ".
Despite also requesting to be included, transgender people were instead afforded trans-inclusive language on the march's list of demands.

Despite and refused
Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.
Despite pleas from Nelson and Hamilton, King Ferdinand of Naples refused to lend his frigates to the British fleet, fearing French reprisals.
Despite repeated demands from visiting Soviet emissaries, Feltrinelli refused to cancel or delay publication.
Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.
Despite a number of invitations, the Court has so far refused to apply the protections of this article to same-sex marriage.
Despite this setback, Baresi refused to give up his dream and tried out for the Milan youth team, where he was accepted.
Despite the Haitian victory, France refused to recognize the newly independent country's sovereignty until 1825, in exchange for 150 million gold francs.
Despite strong Italian influence, Zog refused to completely give in to Italian pressure.
Despite the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, the former Dowager Empress Maria at first refused to leave Russia.
Despite demands from the PNG government that Australia apologize, the latter refused.
Despite Qatar's coming under British " protection ," Abdullah bin Jassim was far from secure: recalcitrant tribes refused to pay tribute ; disgruntled family members intrigued against him ; and he felt vulnerable to the designs of Bahrain, not to mention the Wahhabis.
Despite international validation of the elections by multiple political and independent observers ( virtually all from among U. S. allies ) the United States refused to recognize the elections, with President Ronald Reagan denouncing the elections as a sham.
" Despite the potential benefits of the agreement to the country, which Roosevelt as well understood and anticipated, all was for naught when the Canadian legislature refused to approve it.
Despite Louis ' victory, Pope John XXII still refused to ratify his election, and in 1324 he excommunicated Louis, but the sanction had less effect than in earlier disputes between emperors and the papacy.
Despite various attempts to get her out, such as the Carnation Plot in September, Marie Antoinette refused when the plots for her escape were brought to her attention.
Despite three separate summons, Nestorius refused to acknowledge Cyril's authority to stand in judgment of him and considered the opening of the council before the arrival of the Antiochene contingent as a " flagrant injustice ".
Despite being subjected to severe pressure and incarceration for a year at Kraków, the delegation refused to submit to the king's terms, and Giese and Councilor Georg Kleefeld were eventually released in 1570 against a ransom of 100, 000 guilders.
Despite being excommunicated for his defiance, Owain steadfastly refused to put Cristin aside.
Despite scholars ' concern that the tapestry was becoming damaged the council refused to return it to the Cathedral.
Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid Of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them.
Despite being refused entry to the Football League's First Division at the start of the 1892 – 93 season, they were invited to play in their new Second Division.
Despite Napoleon's pleas that he abdicate and leave Mexico, Maximilian refused to abandon the Mexican conservatives who had supported him, and remained alongside them until the bitter end, when he was captured by the Republicans and then shot on 19 June 1867.
Despite several trade offers from Montreal Canadiens ' GM Sam Pollock, Torrey refused to part with the pick.
Despite warnings from the French and British governments, the king refused an alliance with its former allies.
Despite this, Charles refused to return the lands in Aquitaine to the English king, resulting in a provisional agreement under which Edward resumed administration of the remaining English territories in early 1326 whilst France continued to occupy the rest.

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