Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite the decline in Muslim-controlled kingdoms, it is important to note the lasting effects exerted on the peninsula by Muslims in technology, culture, and society.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

Despite its decline in facial popularity, realists continue to influence a wide spectrum of jurisprudential schools today, including critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, sociology of law and law and economics.

Despite the clear collapse of their power, and the decline of their kingdom around them, nobles continued to play kingmakers on a regular basis, with occasional intervention from Ptolemaic Egypt and other outside powers.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite the decline, wargaming continues to survive in different forms.

Despite the decline in Milan's manufacturing production, the city has found alternative and successful sources of revenue, including publishing, finance, banking, food processing, information technology, logistics, transport and tourism.

Despite these measures and others, the European bison population continued to decline over the following century, with only Białowieża and Northern Caucasus populations surviving into the 20th century.

Despite a decline in popularity following 1968, Daley was historically re-elected for the fifth time in 1971.

Despite the great reforms of Jean-Georges Noverre in the eighteenth century, ballet went into decline in France after 1830, though it was continued in Denmark, Italy, and Russia.

Despite the decline of European settlement and the loss of contact, Denmark – Norway continued to maintain its claim to lordship of Greenland: in the 1660s, a polar bear was added to the royal coat of arms.

Despite the decline of the Aztec empire, most of the Mesoamerican cultures were intact after the fall of Tenochtitlan.

Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly ' saucy ', postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism.

Despite being legally protected in many countries, the main causes of population decline remain anthropogenic and include hunting, habitat degradation, and fishing-related fatalities.

Despite this, the dugong population is thought to be shrinking, with a worldwide decline of 20 per cent in the last 90 years.

Despite the financial obstacles, the economy of Entre Ríos has grew to a size near that of Buenos Aires, with the decline of saladeros and the growth of wool production.

Despite its decline in domestic architecture, the term parlour continues to have an afterlife in many places as common nomenclature for certain categories of commercial enterprise.

Despite this tension and the city's decline in the face of barbarian invasions, Arles remained a great religious centre and host of church councils ( see Council of Arles ), the rival of Vienne, for hundreds of years.

Despite high wool prices in the 1950s, Willandra had begun its decline as a prominent pastoral property, which had been exacerbated by a prolonged drought after the Second World War.

Despite a decline in population in recent decades, Great Bend continues to serve as a service industry and retail commerce center for central Kansas.

Despite its status as a popular tourist destination for much of its preserved aspects of antebellum culture, Natchez has experienced a general decline in population since 1960.

Despite boasting several state championship football teams in the early 1970s, the Elmwood Park High School Crusaders ' football team went into a lengthy period of decline.

Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.

Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.

Despite pleas from Nelson and Hamilton, King Ferdinand of Naples refused to lend his frigates to the British fleet, fearing French reprisals.

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

" Despite this ruling, a bill to add discrimination based on subculture affiliation to the definition of hate crime in British law was not presented to parliament.

Despite British efforts to curb immigration, during the 14 years of the Aliyah Bet, over 110, 000 Jews secretly entered Palestine.

Despite British assistance, by the end of May, the Germans had overrun most of the country.

Despite more than a century of exposure to Western classical music and two centuries of British colonialism, classical music in India has never gained more than ' fringe ' popularity.

Despite vigorous opposition from the British, the American proposal was adopted.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

Despite the Kuwaiti government's desire to either be independent or under British rule, in the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, the British concurred with the Ottoman Empire in defining Kuwait as an autonomous caza of the Ottoman Empire and that the Shaikhs of Kuwait were not independent leaders, but rather qaimmaqams ( provincial sub-governors ) of the Ottoman government.

Despite wartime restrictions, he was granted British citizenship in 1942 and signed an Official Secrets Act declaration form.

Despite intense bombing, it could not deliver Goring's promise to destroy the British Expeditionary Force, which escaped to continue the war.

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

Despite several brief interludes of British occupation, including once during the Seven Years ' War and twice during the Napoleonic Wars, Martinique has remained a French possession.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

Despite the weakness of its authority, the Alaouite dynasty distinguished itself in the 18th and 19th centuries by maintaining Morocco's independence while other states in the region succumbed to Turkish, French, or British domination.

Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi ' kmaq.

Despite a tendency of American perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law.