Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Despite the loss of territory, military weakness, and evident reduction in literacy and culture, the Kassite dynasty was the longest-lived dynasty of Babylon, lasting until 1157 BC, when Babylon was conquered by Shutruk-Nahhunte of Elam, and re-conquered a few years later by the native Akkadian-Babylonian Nebuchadrezzar I, part of the larger Bronze Age collapse.

Despite its evident progress and usefulness, today's quantitative archaeology is often inadequately represented in archaeological training and education.

: Despite these moves towards decentralization, these improved practices and government promises are not very evident.

Despite this it had soon become evident that in-lines were predominantly quicker than quads on all surfaces and all tracks and to this end athletes opted for in-lines over quads, as is still the case today.

Despite his evident qualifications, it drew significant opposition ; his detractors cited the Fort Pickens incident as evidence that he was not strongly pro-secession.

Despite this evident success, some critics question if regional theater in the United States is becoming more like the highly " commercial " New York marketplace that many of its proponents set out to get away from.

Despite his " Playmaker " style on the field and flashy personality that was evident in his animated, brash commentary as a top NFL analyst for ESPN, Irvin is most remembered by his fellow Cowboys as a consummate teammate.

Despite this previous classification, C. xanthosternos does not have very evident tufts, as they are oriented towards the rear of the skull and are hardly noticeable.

Despite having teammates such as Alex Delvecchio and Mickey Redmond, Dionne's frustrations with losing were evident.

Despite struggling to generate offence, Bouwmeester participated in the AHL All-Star game, and was loaned to the Chicago Wolves when it became evident the Rampage would not qualify for the playoffs.

Despite two fires and substantial Victorian rebuilding of the house, externally, Soane's part in the design is still evident on the garden side and in the house.

Despite her evident affection for Scott, she sleeps with John at one point in the novel.

Despite the intentional Gothic style evident in many of the designs of these windows they are actually late-baroque in style.

Despite the evident public enthusiasm for the work, Handel did not promote further stagings.

Despite the Bodo accord, neglect remains, with no economic improvement is evident in Bodo dominated areas.

Despite the general scientific dismissal of these claims, it is evident that some of popular culture clings to Oliver's representational legacy.

Despite only playing 17 games and scoring 6 goals in his time at Exeter, he was spotted by Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman in a match against Watford ; Chapman was attending to keep tabs on a Watford player, but the 17-year-old Bastin's ability was so evident that Chapman decided to sign him at the end of the 1928-29 season.

Despite Galvatron ’ s mental instability, it is evident that he values Cyclonus above all other Decepticons.

Despite this rocky start, Grissom seemed to develop a paternal fondness for Greg, evident by Season Two episode Chasing the Bus, where Grissom encourages Greg and denies that he " messed up " in the field.

Despite the recent changes in the hierarchy, the system always had powers to impose unambiguous rules and guidelines that applied across the entire nation e. g. as to how the ballots will be cast and counted, what will be regarded as ' unqualified ' vote ( something whose importance became very evident during US presidential election in 2000 ).

Despite the brothers ' closeness, rivalry between them was sometimes evident.

Despite the short history of the modern village, the sense of community became evident by the death of the long term headmaster of Perton First School in the 1990s which drew hundreds of mourners from the village to fill the community centre for his funeral.

Despite rave critical reviews, it sold very poorly so Warner Bros publicist Stan Cornyn wrote a tongue-in-cheek advertisement hoping to promote it.

Despite the brutality of Strapping Young Lad's music, their songs contain hints of tongue-in-cheek humor and self-parody.

Despite being generally considered one of the first season's best episodes, " Shadows of P ' Jem " sparked controversy at the time of broadcast over a tongue-in-cheek scene in which T ' Pol and Archer, tied back-to-back, try awkwardly to get themselves free, their efforts ultimately resulting in Archer momentarily being smothered by the Vulcan's ample chest.

Despite never achieving true film stardom, Moore made headlines with several publicity stunts, notably a five minute kiss on live Chicago television in 1954 and her tongue-in-cheek pledge to one day run for Governor of Louisiana, having been very briefly married in 1944 to Palmer Long, the youngest son of Louisiana kingmaker Huey Long.

Despite this obviously tongue-in-cheek characterization, Ms. Birnbach did correctly identify that one was more likely to view an upturned collar on the beaches of Nantucket than one would in middle America.

Despite this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.

Despite some claims that the word kiosk originally came from the Swahili language, all evidence points to a Middle Persian origin.

Despite the European origin of the liberal arts college, the term liberal arts college usually denotes liberal arts colleges in the United States.

Despite his foreign origin, Lully established an Academy of Music and monopolised French opera from 1672.

Despite the anecdotal nature of the sport's origin, the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.

Despite its origin as a term for man-wolf transformations only, lycanthropy is used in this sense for animals of any type.

Despite uncertainty about the single origin of yakuza organizations, most modern yakuza derive from two classifications which emerged in the mid-Edo Period ( 1603 – 1868 ): tekiya, those who primarily peddled illicit, stolen or shoddy goods ; and bakuto, those who were involved in or participated in gambling.

Despite the diversity of organisms containing plastids, the morphology, biochemistry, genomic organisation, and molecular phylogeny of plastid RNAs and proteins suggest a single origin of all extant plastids – although this theory is still debated.

Despite its Taishan ( Toisan ) background, there are various colorful stories about its origin, which Davidson ( 1999 ) characterizes as " culinary mythology ": Some say it was invented by Chinese immigrant cooks working on the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.

Despite this criticism, expansionists embraced the phrase, which caught on so quickly that its origin was soon forgotten.

Despite a lack of sources as to the origin of the settlements, the name Caen would seem to be of Gaulish origin, from the words catu -, referring to military activities and magos, field, hence meaning " manoeuvre field " or " battlefield ".

" Despite the well-known examples of pejorative exonymic characters ( such as the " dog radical " in Di ), he claims there is no hidden racial bias in the meanings of the characters used to describe these different peoples, but rather the differences were " in occupation or in custom, not in race or origin.

Despite his belief that the Bible was fallible, Martineau continued to hold the view, which was not so much characteristic of the man as of the school in which he had been trained, that " in no intelligible sense can any one who denies the supernatural origin of the religion of Christ be termed a Christian ," which term, he explained, was used not as " a name of praise ," but simply as " a designation of belief.

Despite their differences in mode of emplacement, both types of ophiolite are exclusively SSZ in origin.

Despite its name, the dyke is prehistoric in origin, and Bronze Age arrowheads were found when it was excavated by Major-General Augustus Pitt-Rivers in 1879.

Despite the modern popularity of the Qu Yuan origin theory, in the former territory of the state of Wu, the festival commemorated Wu Zixu ( died 484 BCE ).

Despite weekly or monthly serialized releases in the country of origin, translated editions often take longer to release due to the necessity of translating and repackaging the product before release.

Despite there being no archaeological artifacts nor documents which would date the Tower to the pre-Colonial period, several writers have advanced ideas about the tower's origin apart from the now mainstream windmill theory.

Despite the archaic features, these specimens were argued to represent the direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens sapiens which, according to the " recent African origin ( RAO )" or " out of Africa " model, developed shortly after this period ( Khoisan mitochondrial divergence dated not later than 110, 000 BCE ) in Eastern Africa.

Despite the algebraic branch point, the function w is well-defined as a multiple-valued function and, in an appropriate sense, is continuous at the origin.

Despite the rejection of a pagan origin by academics, this theory is still widely held and sometimes even vociferously defended by its supporters.

Despite a French Republican origin, the political commissar usually is associated historically with the Soviet Union ( 1917 – 91 ), where the Russian Provisional Government of 1917 introduced them to the military forces to ensure the government ’ s political control.

Despite the American origin, this dub was never licensed in North America.

Despite the Amsterdam ( North-Holland ) origin of Beerenburg, the drink became the most popular in Friesland and, to a lesser extent, in Groningen and Drenthe.