Despite the solid offensive performance, the bullpen struggled with 23 blown saves ( a Major League worst ), and the Indians finished a disappointing fourth.

Despite the more favourable critical response, Cradle of Life suffered a disappointing opening weekend, as it debuted in fourth place with a take of $ 21. 7 million, a 55 % drop from the original's opening gross of $ 47. 7 million.

Despite the disappointing reaction to Y Kant Tori Read, Amos still had to comply with her six-record contract with Atlantic Records, who in 1989 wanted a new record by March 1990.

Despite the efforts, Feyenoord underperformed once again in the national league, finishing in a disappointing sixth place.

Despite another disappointing season, the Pacers managed to sweep the waning Detroit Pistons for the first time in 5 years, and the abysmal New Jersey Nets for the first time in 20.

Despite a positive reception from the critics, the disappointing chart position of number six was seen by some as an indication of the band's decline in popularity.

Despite the disappointing performance of the feature films, the Superman series continued to do well.

Despite disappointing his father, Zeke Wolf was shown to be very fond of his son, and Li ' l Wolf of his father.

Despite a winning record, the 1916 Indians season was disappointing, losing twice to the Canton Bulldogs, who were led by Jim Thorpe, and splitting a pair of games with the Columbus Panhandles.

Despite entering as heavy favorites for being the reigning world champions ( having won the 1986 FIFA World Cup ), playing at home and having a team largely composed of its World Cup winners led by the legendary Diego Maradona, Argentina would finish in a disappointing fourth place after being beaten by defending champions Uruguay 0-1 in the semifinals.

Despite initially being a very high profile candidate for leadership, his organizational efforts were disappointing, placing him in the bottom rank of remaining candidates.

Despite its commercial success, however, reviewers found the book disappointing.

Despite a disappointing 2008 season, Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski announced on September 24, 2008, that Leyland would be back for the 2009 season.

Despite critical acclaim, the sales of the first Strontium Dog release, Down to Earth, were disappointing and Big Finish focused almost exclusively on the better-selling Judge Dredd series.

Despite their disappointing finish, the organization was named Northern League Organization of the Year.

Despite the slightly more favourable critical response, Cradle of Life suffered a disappointing opening weekend, as it debuted in fourth place with a take of $ 21. 8 million, a 54 % drop from the original's opening gross of $ 47. 7 million.

Despite a disappointing season for the raiders losing to many close games the raiders were able to beat the Melbourne Storm for the first time in 14 games and 7 years 26 – 16 in round 16 to keep their slim finals hopes alive.

Despite a positive reception, Max Payne 2 sold poorly, leading Rockstar Games ' parent company Take-Two Interactive to cite the " continued disappointing sales of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne " as one of the causes for the company's reforecasted sales for 2004.

Despite the disappointing Argentine exit, Batistuta scored four goals in as many games, including a hat-trick in their opening game against Greece.

Despite the disappointing performance at Bazna, he reached a new career-high world ranking of No. 6 in the July 2011 FIDE list with a 2770 rating.

Despite his spell at Liverpool being short and disappointing, he was at that time the most expensive player ever to be sold by the club.

Despite strong sales, Exile was considered commercially disappointing compared to the phenomenal sales of the first two games, which had sold nearly 10 million units by the time of Exiles release.

Despite the disappointing end to the season, Brees was selected to his fifth Pro Bowl ( fourth as a Saint ) and was voted the No. 9 NFL player of 2011 by his peers.

Despite adding marquee free-agents, the Penguins started the season with a disappointing 8 – 17 – 6 record, leading to Olczyk's dismissal on December 15.

Despite the fact that we lack background knowledge to indicate that there are dramatically fewer men than short people, we still find ourselves inclined to reject the conclusion.

Despite awareness and the political power struggle existent in the play, Antony and Cleopatra both fail to achieve their goals by the play ’ s conclusion.

Despite this, if not either a reservation of approval is made on conclusion of the treaty, or the treaty contains a ratification clause, treaties are according to international law binding upon conclusion.

Despite this conclusion, the German airport authorities ( who were legally responsible for the state of the airport's runways, but generally unaware of the danger of slush on runways for aircraft like the Ambassador ) took legal action against Captain Thain, as the one pilot who had survived the crash.

Despite considerable research and data collected measuring the genetic correlation of HLA alleles and KIR allotypes, a firm conclusion has not yet been drawn as to what combination provides decrease HIV and AIDS susceptibility.

Despite the lack of resources, a number of young talented players were found to play for the club ; crucially, when many of these moved on, including Stephen Pearson and James McFadden, they brought revenue in the form of transfer fees, and with John Boyle waiving the club's personal debt to him, its financial future was assured by the conclusion of the 2004 – 05 season with the club's yearly losses falling to one of the lowest figures in the Premier League and the club coming out of administration in time to avoid a ten-point Premier League penalty which was being phased in for teams in administration.

Despite being out-played in terms of total yardage, the 49ers trailed by just six points as the game neared its conclusion.

Despite these titles, in fact since the pontificate of Pope John XXIII almost all Cardinals who were not already bishops at the time their appointment was announced have been ordained bishops prior to the conclusion of the formal installation, though in the last years the Jesuit priests made cardinals when they are already over 80 have generally petitioned not to become bishops and have received permission in this sense.

Despite the near-unanimous conclusion that the tales were fabrications, and despite Monk's ill repute, some anti-Catholic groups, particularly fundamentalist Protestant authors such as Loraine Boettner and Jack Chick, still cite Monk's story as if it were true.

Despite the conclusion of her marriage, the new Duchess did not leave Portugal for another eight weeks.

Despite his perverse conclusion, the Brabin enquiry exposed police malpractice during the Evans case, such as destruction of evidence.

Despite their fears a number of important documents were signed on April 5, at the conclusion of the sessions.

Despite having successfully built upon the extensive NBC reporting trials, undertaken with the RAF Regiment and meeting full NATO standards and evaluations ( STANAGs and OPEVALs ), the conclusion reached by the UK MoD was that retention of the Corps in its NBC Cell role was " desirable, but not essential in the existing format ".

Despite the conclusion of a Concordat between France and the Papacy ( 1516 ), granting the crown unrivalled power in senior ecclesiastical appointments, France was deeply affected by the Protestant Reformation's attempt to break the unity of Roman Catholic Europe.

Despite his initial anger and chagrin at this conclusion, Artemis wound up living a happier life from there on with Drizzt " dead.

Despite the judges ' conclusion that Flanagan had lied to the tribunal, his vote increased by 45 % at the 1948 general election.

Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion ( i. e. the eventual emergence of cloning as a replacement for the sexual reproduction of the human race ), the narrative focuses almost exclusively on the bleak and unrewarding day-to-day lives of the protagonists ; two half-brothers who barely know each other.

Despite outnumbering their enemies five to one the Russians failed to achieve what looked to be a foregone conclusion.

NDSCS president John Richman is quoted as saying, " coach's and my conversation consisted of if this was a heterosexual incident, would we come to the same conclusion, and Coach Parsons answer was yes, Mr. Kuntz simply and plainly failed to perform his duties as assigned and was ongoing distraction to the game … Despite how this is being portrayed by some, Jamie's sexual orientation had nothing to do with his dismissal from the football team.

Despite speculation the university might fire Weis, it was announced shortly after the conclusion of the regular season that he would remain head coach in 2009.

Despite this conclusion, the study continued, and in 1971 enrolled a second generation of participants.

Despite being a highly anticipated transfer, Pessotto made just 21 league appearances, and was sold at the conclusion of the season.

Despite the fact that it has carrots, some fans have come to the conclusion that Bugs ' reason for his journey to the carrot festival was to celebrate Cinco de Mayo ( though the release date for this cartoon was in August ).