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Despite the efforts of Plectrude to silence her rival's child by imprisoning him, he became the sole mayor of the palace — and de facto ruler of Francia — after a civil war, which lasted for more than three years after Pepin's death.
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Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to grow graver all the time.
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Despite Hahn's efforts, the contributions of Meitner and Frisch were not recognized.
Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.
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 strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.
Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.
Despite these efforts, Cairo's population has doubled since the 1960s, reaching close to seven million ( with an additional ten million in its urban area ).
Despite Cotton Mather's efforts, he never became quite as well known and successful in politics as his father.
Despite efforts at containment, the upheaval in Eastern Europe inevitably spread to nationalities within the USSR.
Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.
Despite the efforts of his successor Emperor Yohannes IV to establish a relationship with the United Kingdom, Ethiopia was ignored by the world powers until the opening of the Suez Canal, and more important, the Mahdist War, drew outside attention to her once more.
Despite heroic efforts, Old Prussian sovereignty would eventually collapse after a succession of wars instigated by Pope Honorius III and his frequent calls for crusade.
Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.
Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).
Despite his efforts to rise above the rank of private — he even called upon Frank Capra to intercede on his behalf — he never achieved officer's status or any commendations during his six months of service.
Despite some efforts, no suitable substitutes with the stability and low cost of gelatin have been found.
Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.
Despite British efforts to curb immigration, during the 14 years of the Aliyah Bet, over 110, 000 Jews secretly entered Palestine.
Despite these efforts the regime lacked a broad popular base or a mass movement supporting it.
Despite the efforts of philologists from all parts of the world, and despite the use of modern cryptographic analysis, the signs remain undeciphered.
Despite these efforts, the rank is still below regional peers and an unfavourable investment climate persists.
Despite efforts to restore ( or at least improve ) the popularity of the Conservative party, Labour remained far ahead in the opinion polls as the 1997 election loomed, despite the economic boom that had followed the exit from recession four years earlier, and the swift fall in unemployment.
Despite efforts and considerations of expanding his political domain, Kemp never held a fundraiser outside of his suburban Western New York district until well into his eighth term in Congress.
Despite and silence
Despite attempts to silence critics, Bismarck remained a largely unpopular politician.
Despite his earlier opposition to NAFTA, Perot remained largely silent about expanded use of guest worker visas in the United States, with Buchanan supporters attributing this silence to his corporate reliance on foreign workers.
Despite extensive police resources channelled towards their capture, a wall of silence created by a mixture of fear and respect in the Shankill community, provided few leads that could be followed.
Despite Richard Kollmar's public silence about his late wife, her father Jim Kilgallen, still a highly respected reporter at age 77, did speak for publication.
Despite being located in the middle of the City of Monaco, the world's most densely populated urban center, Monaco-Ville remains a medieval village at heart, made up almost entirely of quiet pedestrian streets and marked by virtual silence after sundown.
Despite the presiding judge's attempt to silence Gilligan, he continued to blame a botched Gardaí investigation and planted evidence as the reason for his current imprisonment.
Despite the band's statement that they would continue on, a year's worth of silence after being dropped from their record label left the perception that the band may have disbanded.
Despite its author's silence from 1677 to 1689, as time progressed Phèdre became one of the most famous of his plays.
Despite the family's silence the press maintained a constant presence outside the Baron's home.
Despite relative silence of the earlier Vedic sources, the features of Bhagavatism and principles of monotheism of Bhagavata school unfolding described in the Bhagavad Gita as viewed as an example of the belief that Vasudeva-Krishna is not an avatar of the Vedic Vishnu, but is the Supreme.
Despite its limited means, Radio Bayrak continued to voice the Turkish Cypriot viewpoint in the face of repeated Greek Cypriot efforts to silence the station.
Despite the presence of 23, 000 fans, silence enveloped the ground.
Despite the silence that ensued following the album's failure to meet its unspecified April 2005 release date, Davis confirmed in an interview on July 18, 2007, that the band still intended to complete the project.
Despite this, the book claimed that Rajneeshism was not a religion, but rather " a religionless religion ... only a quality of love, silence, meditation and prayerfulness ".
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Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.
Despite her continuing production and accolades, however, Beaux was working against the current of tastes and trends in art.
Despite her active participation in urging social change and working as a caseworker, Hall's mother says Camilla became dissatisfied with her work.
Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.
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Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.
Despite her private religion, she did not attempt to reimpose Catholicism on her largely Protestant subjects, thus angering the chief Catholic nobles.
Despite widespread condemnation of her scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters.
Despite the age gap the two had a close relationship until her suicide in 1987.
Despite her rejection of religion, she continued to maintain a personal belief in a God of some sort, relating in her autobiography that she believed in " an unseen over-ruling Power ," " which science calls Nature and religion calls God.
Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.
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Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.
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