Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

Despite allegations by Roman sources of adultery and divorce, the marriage appears to have been happy.

Despite his failure to produce the results that Henry wanted, there is little doubt that Wolsey was in support of the divorce ; however, he never planned that Henry would marry Anne Boleyn.

Despite the use of intermediaries, a divorce case ensued in Paris in 1905.

" Despite his numerous affairs, eventual divorce, and remarriage, the Emperor's last words on his death bed at St. Helena were: " France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine.

Despite the acrimony of their divorce years earlier, Gary Merrill also defended Davis.

Despite being divorced from Josh's mother, he tells his daughter " You divorce wives, not children " and is very protective of Cher, telling Christian: " If anything happens to my daughter, I've got a. 45 and a shovel.

Despite the relative large number of lawyers that presumably would handle divorce, adoption and child custody matters, Texas reported that of 77, 056 attorneys, only 697 in the entire state were certified in family law ( which is, arguably, the applicable specialty ).

Despite fertility-related operations and several miscarriages, she was not able to give Curzon the son and heir he desperately desired, a fact that eroded their marriage, which ended in separation, though not divorce.

Despite drastically different personalities and several separations ( she filed, then withdrew, a divorce petition in 2002 ), they remain married.

Despite the discovery Tony is working with the Axis, Normandie still refuses to divorce him.

Despite her divorce from Norvo, she and Red would continue to record together until 1945.

Despite the calamities of World War I, Russian Civil War and throughout 1920s, their love affair caught and stayed in public attention, possibly because she did not divorce her husband.

Despite their three children, divorce was inevitable, and in 1889 the couple separated officially.

Despite her strong views on women's equality, Whitton was a strong social conservative and did not support making divorce easier.

Despite this, the coalition managed to push through major reforms of social policy, including abolishing capital punishment ( 1974 ), allowing no-fault divorce ( 1975 ) and broadening at-fault divorce ( 1978 ), and legalising abortion ( 1978 ).

Despite the assumption of many TV station executives, the series was not aimed at children but deliberately sought an older audience ; many episodes featured adult themes such as adultery, divorce, and drug use.

Despite this, they apparently never did divorce.

Despite Doyle's reluctance to discuss his past, Angel and Cordelia learn about him when Harriet returns to his life, wanting a divorce so she can marry an Ano-Movic demon named Richard Howard Straley, though she ultimately calls off the engagement after learning that obtaining the blessing of the Straley clan would require Richard to kill Doyle by eating his brain.

Despite his claims, a divorce was never granted.

Despite this, she never once attempts to divorce him.

Despite throwing for nearly 4, 400 yards and 34 touchdowns in his two years at Mater Dei, Marinovich transferred to Mission Viejo's Capistrano Valley High School due to his parents ' divorce.

Despite his differences with Parnell on the land question, he was a strong supporter of the alliance between the Liberal Party and the Irish Parliamentary Party and maintained this position in 1890 when the party split over Parnell's divorce case.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.

Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote.

Despite this there are many variants of the story in Chinese mythology.

James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: " Despite a reasonably original story line, familiar characters, first rate special effects, and the hallmark meeting between Captains Kirk and Picard, there's something fundamentally dissatisfying about movie.

Despite this, the first three books are still considered a trilogy because they contain a story that is self-contained.

Despite the initial failure of the story, it changed the course of Clarke's career.

Despite the bible's story, according to which the Israelites originated from Mespotamia via slavery in Egypt, the evidence indicates that they were native to Canaan.

Despite its size, the equivalent of five city blocks long with a three story high conning tower, it has so far remained undetected.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

" Despite its atypical nature, " Contendings " includes many of the oldest episodes in the divine conflict, and many events appear in the same order as in much later accounts, suggesting that a traditional sequence of events was forming at the time that the story was written.

Despite popular opinion, TOS writer and story editor, Dorothy C. Fontana, insists that pon farr is not the only time that Vulcans feel sexual desire or engage in sexual activity: " Vulcans mate normally any time they want to.

Despite the above legal wrangling, Archie Comics never took any action against Kurtzman or Elder for their 1954 Mad magazine story " Starchie ".

Despite similarities in theme and name, Nyarlathotep does not feature at all in Lovecraft's story " The Crawling Chaos ", ( 1920 / 21 ) an apocalyptic narrative written in collaboration with Winifred V. Jackson ( aka Elizabeth Berkeley ).

Despite his appearances, however, Mangiafuoco ( which the story says is his given name ) is not evil.

Despite the fact he teamed up against them in that story against Scrooge, he still dares to ask what did he do to deserve that.

Despite the presence in the story of Neptune, Mercury, Venus and other immortals, she does not date from Classical times, was born around 1000, and has a character almost diametrically opposed to that cited for her namesake in the previous paragraph.

Despite all this, his semi-cousin ( in the film and radio show they are said to share three of the same mothers ) Zaphod Beeblebrox calls him " Ford " the first time they are reunited in all versions of the story except for the film, where Zaphod addresses him as " Praxibetel Ix ," then introduces him by saying " This is my semi-half cousin, Ix ... Excuse me, Ford.

Despite its impressive run in publication, The Robe is more familiar today as a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( Richard Burton ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ.

Despite voluminous reader mail pointing to the numerous errors in the news story, the Observer never issued a full retraction of its claims, only going so far as to clarify that Johan Helsingius had " consistently denied " the claims of child pornography distribution.

Despite Shatner's doubts, Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be fixed by something only available in the present day ( the Star Trek characters ' past ).

Despite the fact that the Beagle Boys are mentioned, they don't appear until the end of the story.

Charles Champlin from Los Angeles Times commented that: " Despite an over explicit soundtrack and some moments when the story in fact became a sermon, the movie effectively translated a changed national consciousness into credible and touching personal terms ".

Despite such errors, closer examination reveal an even richer, deeper and more interesting story about a community that has been diverse, stable, progressive, far-sighted and which held far greater sway for the better part of two and a half centuries than one would associate with or ascribed to any community of such small size.