Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.

Despite being a broadcaster, Partridge is a socially incompetent and awkward character prone to one-upmanship, embarrassing social faux pas and displays of deep insensitivity to social norms.

Despite an embarrassing home loss against ( 1-2 ), they finished first in their group, ahead of, and.

Despite Danielli having few starts for Scotland in the run up to the 2011 Rugby World Cup he started in Scotland's opening game against Romania, scoring two tries in the 75th and 78th minutes saving Scotland from an embarrassing defeat.

Despite marketing claims and popular misconceptions, the Florida resort is not located within Orlando city limits and is actually located about southwest of downtown Orlando within southwestern Orange County, with the remainder in adjacent Osceola County.

Despite widespread misconceptions, only the females of most dabbling ducks " quack ".

Despite common misconceptions, onigiri is not a form of sushi.

Despite popular misconceptions, Ingush is not mutually intelligible with Chechen, though they are closely related.

Despite misconceptions, they do not pray to the kramats.

Despite some misconceptions, Meisner work also addresses characterization, though in an indirect way.

Despite its widespread acclaim, it was not nominated for an Oscar, which created a small scandal regarding the nomination practices of the Academy.

Despite the thrilling win and the recognition, Bogart later commented, " The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one ... too many stars ... win it and then figure they have to top themselves ... they become afraid to take chances.

Despite the many celebrated films he directed, many of which won Academy Awards in various categories, Frankenheimer was never nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

Despite the score's continued popularity, Gone with the Wind failed to win an Oscar for him.

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

Despite having only 17 minutes of screen time, Tracy was highly praised for his performance and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Despite the small budget, dire predictions, and little help from distributor Orion Pictures, Hoosiers grossed over $ 28 million and received two Oscar nominations ( Dennis Hopper for Best Supporting Actor and Jerry Goldsmith for Best Original Score ).< ref >

Despite having rejected the Oscar the previous year for his work in Patton, Scott was nominated for Best Actor, but the gold statuette went instead to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

Despite suffering from the " terrifying " director Otto Preminger, Darnell completed the film and was praised by reviewers so widely that there was even talk of an Oscar nomination.

Despite this, one song from the album, " Shakedown " was nominated for an Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Despite the unpopularity of the Progressive Conservative party in other northern ridings, Evans's personal popularity was such that he was almost able to defeat the riding's incumbent MLA, New Democrat Oscar Lathlin ( who is also aboriginal ).

Despite negative reviews, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

Despite his injuries, Johnny is determined to bring Oscar and his gang to justice.

Despite not winning the Oscar, this film brought Lipsett considerable praise from critics and directors.

Despite keeping his homosexual affairs discreet and out of the public eye, in the mid-1950s, Lord Montagu became " one of the most notorious public figures of his generation ," after his conviction and imprisonment for " conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons ," a charge which was also used in the Oscar Wilde trials in 1895, and remained on the books until 1967.

Despite its unpleasantness and expense, a diagnostic fast may be the only effective way to confirm or refute a number of serious forms of hypoglycemia, especially those involving excessive insulin.

Despite the continuity of forms in Gaelic between the pre-Norse and post-Norse eras, Haswell-Smith ( 2004 ) speculates that the name may have a Norse connection, Hiōe meaning " island of the den of the brown bear ", " island of the den of the fox ", or just " island of the cave ".

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Despite the wide variety among Christian liturgies, texts from the New Testament play a role in almost all forms of Christian worship.

Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included.

Despite wearing fearsome armor in the forms of Anubis and Horus, Ra's guards and servants are human ; a blue-jewelled button on each of their wrist-guards is activated to retract the metallic god-masks over their heads and into their collars.

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

Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams thought theatre, film and television were superior forms of entertainment.

Despite the prevalence of the quintet formation and the ABABC compositional structure, Piazzolla consistently experimented with other musical forms and instrumental combinations.

Despite its name, the black rat exhibits several colour forms.

Despite the distinctive appearance of the males, recent genetic studies show only limited variation between the forms, and confirm that this is a single species.

Despite the fact that the sympathetic strings are now thought of as the most characteristic element of the instrument, early forms of the instrument almost uniformly lacked them.

Despite the healthy fear with which the worshipers ( and even the Loa themselves ) regard him, he is also viewed as a necessary evil ; there must always be a Kalfu to balance Legba, and a force of overwhelming creativity and expression, even if that expression often takes horrifying forms.

Despite these comments, it is important to note that the ' bounce ' described is characteristic of many African American vernacular dance forms.

Despite its small physical size, the airport is capable of handling Boeing 747s and Antonov 124s, which forms a vital freight link between local manufacturers and overseas markets.

Despite the Agency's reference to Ulster Scots as " a language ", this eliding of the distinction between Ulster Scots as a linguistic form, and " Ulster Scots culture " broadly referring to cultural forms associated with the Scottish-descended population, continued thereafter.

Despite efforts of international transplantation societies, it is not possible to access an accurate source on the number, rates and outcomes of all forms of transplantation globally ; the best that we can achieve is estimations.

Despite their varied answers, the Milesian school was searching for a natural substance that would remain unchanged despite appearing in different forms, and thus represents one of the first scientific attempts to answer the question that would lead to the development of modern atomic theory ; " the Milesians ," says Burnet, " asked for the φύσις of all things.

Despite this simpleness of function the loincloth takes many forms.

Despite these later edicts it is notable that the Poor Law Amendment Act did not ban all forms of outdoor relief.

Despite the exposure to other forms of media and the positive critical buzz for their third album, Audioslave did not tour behind the release.

Despite the fact that the Athenian songs were not autonomous artistic creations ( in contrast with the serenades ) and despite their original connection with mainly dramatic forms of Art, they eventually became hits as independent songs.

Despite whatever value judgments one might have about it, pride in one's community, one's ethnic group membership, one's nation and the like, are forms of prejudice.