Despite a platform covering the full range of political subjects, Kemp's primary campaign weapon was a fiscal policy based on tax cuts.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

Despite the fact that James Cameron had final cut on the original theatrical version and almost all cuts were decided by him, the extended version is often labeled as a " director's cut ".

Despite the extensive cuts, the film was still negatively received by audiences, and remained an object of extreme controversy.

Despite continuous cuts and restructuring in the public sector and legislation aimed at reducing the effectiveness of unions, PSA membership continues to grow, particularly in community-based services.

Despite cuts, Spectrum Holobyte managed to line up several big name licenses, including Top Gun, Magic: The Gathering, Star Trek: The Next Generation and MechWarrior.

Despite the savings these cuts created, it was apparent that if the railroad was to become solvent again a more permanent solution was needed.

Despite economic expansion and investment, Cambodians still continued to pay high taxes and in 1916, protests broke out demanding for tax cuts.

Despite its proximity to two large power stations, frequent power cuts are normal in Aligarh.

Despite the replacement or upgrading of bridges and track since the 19th century, almost the entirety of Sir Sandford Fleming's route continues to operate ; its fills and rock cuts and iron bridges, once considered extravagant, remain much as they were when they were built.

Despite government cuts to social programs and urban development, Filmon's Tories were able to win re-election in 1995.

Despite these cuts, His Mouse Friday, the only Tom and Jerry cartoon to be completely taken off the airwaves in some countries due to claims of racism, is included, unedited with the exception of zooming-in as on the North American set.

Despite the severity of the accident, Wehbe suffered only minor cuts and bruises.

Despite this, blood or wounding may be shown for arrow wounds or knife cuts.

" Despite Gilder's defense of mass immigration in the Wall Street Journal, it is unclear whether or not Gilder would object to cuts in low-skilled, mostly third world immigration to the United States as emphasized by skeptics of recent American immigration policies such as Pat Buchanan.

Despite widespread predictions by political and media commentators that Greiner would be easily re-elected to a second term, the impact of the Government's policies, particularly in terms of service cuts and increased charges, caused many voters to turn back to Labor.

Despite his failed special election and budget cuts, Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed to be ahead in the polls against Phil Angelides.

Despite a few square cuts, Harvey adapted his game to play a patient innings, prompting heckling from spectators for the first time in his career.

Despite the brothers ' protests, Joseph cuts open the sacks of grain he gave them to take back to their homeland, and out of Benjamin's topples the gold cup.

Despite this success, budget cuts have forced the station to roll back programming hours in recent years.

Despite the Howard Government's Voluntary Student Unionism legislation causing massive cuts to both staffing and service levels at NUSA, it continues to provide independent representation through independent and university funding.

Despite budget cuts, the County library system has increased hours of operation.

Despite some interesting cuts the hits tailed away in the shadow of " Shakin '".

Despite severe cuts in the 1990s, Hallwalls has remained a strong presence in the Western New York community.

Despite the rare adverse weather conditions, city and state crews kept streets and sidewalks free of ice, and MARTA public transport kept running.

Despite a strong safety record, throughout MARTA's history there have been continued concerns regarding criminal activity on MARTA trains and in and around MARTA train stations.

Despite this controversy, many properties of diatomic astatine have been predicted.

Despite the predicted blowout, and the fact that San Diego did not have as much national appeal nor a relatively large core fan base, the telecast of the game on ABC still had a Nielsen rating of 41. 3.

Despite being the predicted winner of this year's Long Walk, having been described as " moose-like " and able to walk long distances with little difficulty, Scramm succumbs to pneumonia.

Despite these efforts in May 1992, daily park attendance was around 25, 000 ( some reports give a figure of 30, 000 ) instead of the predicted 60, 000.

Despite global warming and a consequently greater predicted rate of sea level rise recent analysis extended the working life of the barrier until around 2060 – 2070.

Despite critics who predicted he could not revive the magic, Barnum went on to greater success.

Despite these arguments, advocates of “ financial modernization ” predicted consumers and businesses would enjoy cost savings and greater convenience in receiving financial services from integrated “ financial services firms .”

Despite its simplicity, Stern's group in Hamburg had observed that hydrogen did not behave as predicted.

Despite these additional flights, passengers at Belfast International did not rise beyond 6 million in 2008 as some had predicted but in fact fell by 10, 000 passengers to 5. 2 million.

Despite the Liberals ' improved standing, the results were considered a disappointment for Turner, after polls in mid-campaign predicted a Liberal government.

Despite this protection, the Hector ’ s dolphin population was predicted to continue declining due to bycatch outside the MPAs.

Despite doubling their number of seats, the results were considered a disappointment as polls in mid-campaign had predicted a Liberal majority, and Turner resigned as party leader in 1990.

Despite their very small genomes, many predicted genes are present in multiple copies.

Despite its great importance, for example in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, it proved very difficult to get any control of it, until results of Karl Rubin gave a way to show in some cases it was finite ( a result generally believed, since its conjectural order was predicted by an L-function formula ).

Despite the 6th district being heavily Republican ( Bartlett won re-election in 2006 with 59 % of the vote ), Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot predicted that Dougherty would unseat the incumbent, primarily due to Bartlett's embroilment in the scandal surrounding his failure to report over $ 1, 000, 000 in property sales to the government.

Despite the term, the so-called " diseases of affluence " are predicted to become more prevalent in developing countries, as diseases of poverty decline, longevity increases and lifestyles change.

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 this, he stated that should turnout for the presidential elections be under 50 % ( knowing this was predicted and occurred in the last election ) that the legitimacy of the result may be an issue.

Despite being predicted to play mostly off the bench in 2009, the early release of incumbent halfback Nathan Fien in June saw Jones thrust into the familiar role of starting playmaker for the Warriors once again.

Despite their best marketing efforts, however, it stalled at number 74 in the UK, and failed to provide Haig with the hit many had confidently predicted.

Despite all the activity, state revenue still fell short forcing the government to use its reserve funds ; an even larger deficit was predicted for the 1958 tax year.