Despite the emergence of the Popular Front and the Supreme Soviet as a new lawmaking body, since 1989 the different segments of the indigenous Estonian population had been politically mobilized by different and competing actors.

" Despite the emergence of rock and roll, " Calcutta " reached number 1 on the U. S. pop charts in 1961 ; it was recorded in only one take.

Despite the emergence of new currencies in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, the Interchangeability Agreement which the three countries continued to adhere to as they were originally parts of a currency union meant the Malaysian dollar was also exchangeable at par with the Singapore dollar and Brunei dollar until May 8, 1973, when the Malaysian government pulled out of the agreement.

Despite a recent unconfirmed news report that a Croatian speaker has gained the ability to speak fluent German after emergence from a coma, there has been no verified case where a patient's foreign language skills have improved after a brain injury.

Despite the emergence of numerous radical parties, the government was run by the major parties and no large-scale experiments, such as the American New Deal were attempted.

Despite the fact that mercantilist, export-heavy economy impaired the emergence of a robust self-sustaining economy, craftsman and merchants developed a growing interdependence on each other for their trades.

Despite this, the emergence of new sign languages in modern times — Nicaraguan Sign Language, for example — might potentially offer insights into the developmental stages and creative processes necessarily involved.

Despite the later emergence of games that resemble Master of Magic ( such as the Age of Wonders series ), reviewers like Kyle Ackerman and GameSpot editor, Andrew Park, have stated that the game's essence has not yet been re-captured.

Despite the poor performance the 2007 season saw the emergence of teenage rugby prodigy Kurtley Beale and proved to be a rebuilding stage in the waratahs super 14 championship run.

Despite the emergence of Lajos Tichy and Lajos Kocsis, the post-Revolution era was not kind to Honvéd.

Despite the current decline of the local steel industry, emergence of Wollongong as a commuter city of Sydney has kept the freeway and the adjacent Mount Ousley Road busy.

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 its $ 750, 000 purse and Grade 1 status, the stature of the race has suffered somewhat in recent years thanks to the emergence of the Breeders ' Cup held not long afterward, as well as the race's having been shortened to the more common distance of 1¼ miles in 1990, reducing its distinctiveness.

Despite mass emergence of independent rappers, only a few Azerbaijani rap artists have achieved commercial success: Dayirman, Elşad Xose and Uran.

Despite the emergence of the printing press, the ordinary printing techniques of the time, in which ink was simply stamped onto the paper using lead type, produced too poor a result for stylish invitations.

Despite the survival of strong patriarchal elements, Friends believed in the spiritual equality of women, who were allowed to take a far more active role than had ordinarily existed before the emergence of radical civil war sects.

Despite being included in the 1996 and 1999 World Cup squads, he only really established himself in the team in the 1999-2000 Carlton and United Series along with the emergence of his younger brother, fast bowler Brett Lee.

Despite the forecast of the obsolescence of the order of nation-states, and the rise of super-national entities, what was not forecast was the emergence of a world political union cast in the form of the United States of Earth.

Despite the emergence of distinct civil and eccesiastical parishes under the Victorian Poor Law, the civil parish remained almost identical to the ancient parish for more than a century.

Despite the objections, the Independent on Sundays editors included Tinky Winky as the only fictional character in the 2008 inaugural " Happy List ", alongside 99 real-life adults recognised for making Britain a better and happier place.

Despite the information available at the time, Garfield made a strong showing at the convention in 1874, commanding over two-thirds of the delegates, and then won re-election against Democratic and Independent opponents, though by a smaller margin than in the past.

Despite its small size the Belleville area is served by four weekly newspapers, the Belleville-Area Independent, the Belleville Lake Current, the Belleville View, and the Belleville Enterprise.

Despite strong resistance from anti-fascists, including the local Jewish community, the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain, the BUF found a following in the East End of London, where in the London County Council elections of March 1937 it obtained reasonably successful results in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Limehouse, polling almost 8, 000 votes, although none of its candidates was actually elected.

Despite this, it is believed by many Irish business journalists that Independent Newspapers effectively control the Sunday Tribune via a series of loans.

Despite being described a ' Blairite ', Daisley supported the Mayoral campaign of Brent East MP Ken Livingstone when he fought as an Independent after being defeated for the official Labour Party nomination.

Despite Morrison's objections, the UFO joined with 10 Independent Labour Party MLAs ( an 11th ILP MLA, Morrison MacBride, broke with his colleagues and sat in Opposition ) and one Independent to form a coalition government, with Drury as Premier and two of the ILP MLAs in the cabinet.

Despite an early flurry of success, she told The Independent, " We weren't happy.

Despite being located in Houston, it is not served by the Houston Independent School District.

Despite calls from some supporters, she did not run for re-election as an Independent candidate in 2003.

Despite her physical limitations, she remained actively committed to her life's work including serving as leader of the Independent Order of St. Luke and chairman of the bank until her death on December 15, 1934.

Despite being openly favourable to the Europe Écologie coalition, for the 2009 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of the Independent Ecological Alliance which won 3. 63 % of the vote.

' Despite its openly offbeat subject matter, it went down well with reviewers: ' Something of a masterpiece ' ( Roger Clarke, The Independent ).

Despite being imprisoned for the rest of his life, Smith continues to refuse to assist police with ongoing investigations of unsolved murders, which were not covered by the immunity granted to him in exchange for his testimony against allegedly corrupt police officers at the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Wood Royal Commission hearings.

Despite the controversial subject matter, the film received critical acclaim and won him Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature from the Independent Spirit Awards, as well as the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Despite legal moves initiated by Seán MacBride, public protests, and parliamentary intervention by TDs from Clann na Talmhan, Labour, and Independent Oliver J. Flanagan

Despite its official replacement, some Muslims had firm conviction in using Shari ’ ah ; hence, it is applied at individual, private and non-governmental levels as evidenced in the activities of Faya Group in Ikirun, Bamidele Movement in Ibadan and Islahuddin Association in Iwo, as well as the Independent Shari ’ ah Arbitration Panels in Ibadan and Osogbo.

Despite having a higher tax rate than Deer Park Independent School District, that district made $ 7, 021 per student in property taxes.

Despite gaining 9 seats the Tories lost 8 behind them to the Liberals Democrats and one even to Labour.

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 this, Foot was very critical of the Alliance, accusing them of " siphoning " Labour support and enabling the Tories to win more seats.

Despite this, the Labour government remained in power for the full five year term.

Despite these measures, however, the Heath Government encouraged a significant increase in welfare spending, and Thatcher blocked Macleod's other posthumous Education policy: the abolition of the Open University, which had recently been founded by the preceding Labour Government.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.

Despite Conservative hopes, the first GLC consisted of 64 Labour and 36 Conservative councillors and Labour Group leader Bill Fiske became the first Leader of the Council.

Despite the support of Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967, joining Ray Gunter at the Ministry of Labour.

Despite its Wellington origins, the West Coast town of Blackball is often regarded as the birthplace of the party, as it was the location of the founding of one of the main political organisations which became part of the nascent Labour Party.

Despite being appointed to the Ministry of Transport, a role which she was originally unenthusiastic about, Castle could not actually drive herself, and was chauffeured to functions, the Labour politician Hazel Blears driving her at one time as a young Labour party activist in the 1980s.

Despite failing to be elected to the shadow cabinet, Castle remained as the Labour shadow spokesperson on Employment in the early days of the incoming Conservative government in 1970, which introduced many of her policy suggestions as part of their Industrial Relations Act.

Despite having always voted Conservative, Mills publicly supported Tony Blair's New Labour in the 2001 General Election.

Despite this echo of the Russian Civil War, Red Wedge was not a communist organisation ; neither was it officially part of the Labour Party, but it did initially have office space at Labour's headquarters.

Despite this, during his time as leader of the Labour Party Smith abolished the trade union block vote at Labour party conferences, and replaced it with " one member one vote " at the 1993 party conference and committed a future Labour government to establishing a Scottish Parliament, a policy which was followed through by his successors ( most notably his close friend Donald Dewar ) after his death.

Despite the election of a third consecutive Labour government, Howard described the election as " the beginning of a recovery " for the Conservative party following Labour's landslide victories in 1997 and 2001.

Despite being a short-lived administration, Katayama's government was responsible for the enactment of a wide range of progressive social reforms, such as the establishment of Japans first Labour Ministry, an Unemployment Compensation Act and an Unemployment Insurance Act, and the overhaul revision of the Civil Code, whose section on the family institution was completely rewritten ( to provide, for instance the eldest son a greater inheritance share ).

Despite this comment, and his sympathies with many elements of the Labour movement, he was not a socialist.