Despite the fact that their actions were ultimately fruitless, the Eretrians and in particular the Athenians had earned Darius's lasting enmity, and he vowed to punish both cities.

Despite the enmity between the two, Eurybiades was assisted by the Athenian naval commander Themistocles.

Despite the failure of his Kentucky campaign, Bragg was retained in command, but this did nothing to reduce the enmity between Polk and Bragg.

Despite his mother's constant and blatantly evil scheming, Prince Juda is a kind boy who doesn't understand his mother's enmity towards his beloved brothers, particularly his favorite, Kail.

Despite or perhaps as a result of her political and personal efforts, Ludmila attracted Drahomíra's bitter enmity.

Despite Francis ' different religion, he felt that they were good people, much like Europeans, and could be converted.

Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.

Despite his partial recovery, Weber felt that he was unable to resume regular teaching at that time and continued on as a private scholar, helped by an inheritance in 1907.

Despite Qatar's coming under British " protection ," Abdullah bin Jassim was far from secure: recalcitrant tribes refused to pay tribute ; disgruntled family members intrigued against him ; and he felt vulnerable to the designs of Bahrain, not to mention the Wahhabis.

Despite these expansions, some still felt copyright was not a strong enough regime.

Despite the oath ( s ) of reconciliation, David felt insecure, and so made an alliance with the Philistines, becoming their vassal.

Despite intervention, market pressures caused the yen to continue climbing in value, peaking temporarily at an average of ¥ 271 per US $ 1 in 1973 before the impact of the 1973 oil crisis was felt.

Despite neither side obtaining a clear victory, Otto II felt his honor was sufficiently restored and opened peace negotiations with the French King.

Despite the plaudits, the film was considered a step back cinematically with the feel of filmed theater, however Kazan did at first use a more open setting but then felt compelled to revert to the stage atmosphere to remain true to the script.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

Despite the story's lack of an easily marketable concept, Cannava selected American Beauty because he felt it was the one Ball had the most passion for.

Despite the increased light from this device, Bacon and French felt the statue required even more light.

Despite being released from the play after five weeks, Milland felt that he had gained valuable acting experience.

Despite the melodramatic script, director King Vidor eagerly took on the film since it emphasized the traditional family values and strong belief in hope — qualities he felt were essential to a good motion picture.

Despite these issues, he also felt that the book had much to commend it, having a narrative structure that while " unstructured ", was " gripping and enthralling ", holding the reader's attention and keeping them " guessing what is going to happen next.

Despite the general agreement among film critics regarding these political connotations of the film, lead actor Kevin McCarthy said in an interview included on the 1998 DVD release that he felt no political allegory was intended.

Despite the secession of the Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America, Breckinridge remained in the Senate until he felt threatened by the military government of his state and fled Washington to the Confederacy on October 2, 1861.

Despite this complete success, Brock felt he needed to go further.

Despite his fame, Rothko felt a growing personal seclusion, and a sense of being misunderstood as an artist.

Despite his fame, the hunger artist felt dissatisfied and misunderstood.

Despite the group's success, however, Brown felt the group was never rightfully paid the money they felt they had earned from their success, later saying " the most I saw from all the tours and all of the records we sold was $ 500 and a VCR.

Despite Liege ’ s many contribution to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the people of Liege felt discriminated against by the Dutch because of their language ( French ) and their religion ( Catholicism ), were different from that of the Netherlands.

Despite his collegiate success, some NFL teams still felt that Smith was too small and slow for the pro game.

" Despite generally positive reviews, several critics, even those who were complimentary, felt that the ending was weak and did not live up to the rest of the film.

Despite the lip service paid by local governments, the anti-secrecy statutes have been continuously subverted by reservations and rationalizations.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.

Despite these achievements, the influence of Aristotle's errors is considered by some to have held back science considerably.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Despite the debut of Donald Bradman, the inexperienced Australians, led by Jack Ryder, were heavily defeated, losing 4 – 1.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.

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 these troubles Andronikos III secured the extension of Byzantine control over Thessaly in 1333 and Epirus in 1337, by taking advantage of succession crises in these principalities.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).

Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Dürer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520.

Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

Despite decisively defeating the Marathas, what might have been Ahmad Shah's peaceful control of his domains was disrupted by many challenges.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

Despite causing the predicament faced by the Medieval soldiers, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.