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Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V, his support slowly strengthened ; and by 1314 with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and Thomas Randolph only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling remained under English control.
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Despite Alf Thomas being the man identified as the assailant of the train driver, Jack Mills, by Bruce Reynolds ( albeit indirectly ), Williams only makes mention of the assailant once in his book.
Despite the claims of decency activists, there are few eras of history in which there have not existed blue comedians ; notoriously offensive performers ( Petronius, Benny Bell, Le Pétomane, Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce for example ).
Despite her background in Christian fundamentalism, Tammy Faye became a gay icon after her parting from PTL, appearing in Gay Pride marches with such figures as Lady Bunny and Bruce Vilanch.
Despite the fact that New Fist of Fury is technically the " official " sequel ( due to both director Lo Wei and leading actress Nora Miao returning ), many martial arts film fans prefer the first of the Bruce Li sequels over Jackie Chan's sequel.
Despite the abbey's affiliation with the Balliol family who remained resolutely at odds with the Bruce monarchy, the abbot and canons, before 21 October 1316, expelled two of their rank for refusing to acknowledge Robert as their king ; a grateful King Edward II of England rewarded them by providing them with the rent and fishery of the abbey at Berwick.
Despite being in the heart of Tottenham and being at one time a busy station, Bruce Grove ticket office is rarely open.
Despite poor sound quality, Chicago at Carnegie Hall went on to become the best-selling box set by a rock act, a record which stood until the release of the Live / 1975-85 5 LP live box set by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band in 1986.
Despite the transference almost taking place, Bruce escapes with Terry's help after Ra's underestimates the new Batman, only for Ra's to abandon all attempts to escape when he tries to save the computer he needs for the mind transference process.
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Despite some initial mistrust, their similar backgrounds convince Bruce to aid Terry.
Despite his role as the new Batman, Terry leads a very different, far less privileged life than Bruce.
Despite his detective training, Terry's ambition is to be a physician, and, under Bruce, he learns to create cures, remedies and antidotes.
Despite having a heart problem, Bruce dons a powerful exo suit and comes to Terry's rescue.
Despite allowing him to leave on loan Steve Bruce suggested that if Camara wanted to stay at Wigan he was more than welcome to.
Despite the advice of everyone in his life, including Dr. Kinsolving, Bruce refuses to rest, and continues to pursue his self-imposed duty despite his worsening condition.
Despite their best efforts, Bruce Wayne, now Batman, was able to fight off four members of the League single-handedly, before defeating Ra's himself aboard a train.
Despite the title, which might lead you to believe that you're in for a lampoon of Bruce Willis ' highly successful action trilogy, Spy Hard has nothing to do with Die Hard.
Despite a report that appeared in The Observer on Sunday 22 February 2009 ( 1 ) stating that the buried ruins of the castle of Robert the Bruce had been found in the Pillanflatt area of Renton, this interpretation has yet to be confirmed.
Despite the finding by John Shields, the Ombudsperson appointed by the Canadian Labour Congress, to keep Bruce Bell as President, the TWU decided to challenge Mr. Shields decision in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Despite his losses, Bruce was determined to start anew, going to New Hope church that night and meeting Loretta and a few other members who had also been left behind he found his former pastor's video made to be played after the rapture.
Despite his fine all round cricket game he was rarely considered for One Day Internationals and in 1981 he was controversially left out of the Ashes squad which toured England ( Stuart Macgill, Yardley and fellow West Australian Bruce Reid are the only three bowlers to take 100 wickets for Australia without playing a Test there ).
Despite winning " Most Popular Serial " in the 1992 Australian Logies, plus actors Bruce Samazan and Simon Baker ( then known as Simon Baker-Denny ) both winning their respective categories in 1992 and 1993, it came as a blow to cast and crew that E Street had been cancelled by Network 10 early 1993.
Despite the FBI's attempt to persuade the LAPD's Chief ( Bruce Dern ) and his squad to drop the case, further investigation leads the detectives to the " atomic soldiers " used as guinea pigs for atomic bomb tests, now dying in a secret military hospital.
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Despite the diplomatic intervention of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths and father-in-law of Alaric, Clovis led his followers into Visigothic territory.
Despite warnings from local authorities, the group continued to meet privately and attract even more followers.
Despite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the Prince of Wales know the Pimpernel's true identity.
Despite this, in January 1535, Catholic authorities found those classified as " Lutherans " actually to be Zwinglians, followers of Huldrych Zwingli.
Despite Henri according his youngest brother Francis the title of Duke of Anjou, the prince and his followers continued to create disorder at court through their involvement in the Dutch Revolt.
Despite the fact that Ellis ' approach emphasized cognitive, emotive, and behavioral methods, his strong cognitive emphasis provoked the psychotherapeutic establishment with the possible exception of the followers of Adler.
Despite the declaration by the Irish Government that participation in the war was ill-advised and unsupported, 700 of O ' Duffy's followers went to Spain to fight on Franco's side ( around 250 other Irishmen went to fight for the Republicans ).
Despite his criminal conviction for embezzlement, followers of the Bund continued to hold him in high regard, in line with the classical precepts of Fuhrerprinzip common to all Nazis.
Despite this, many women admired her lessons and she gained a great number of women followers.
Despite ( or because of ) some coercion, he was able to effectively dispense patronage and could rely on the support of many loyal followers at the community level.
Despite this, he later defended twenty-five followers of Louis Riel in court, after the second Riel Rebellion of 1885.
Despite being based on a corrupted form of Böhme's surname, the term Behmenism has retained a certain utility in modern English-language historiography, where it is still occasionally employed, although often to designate specifically English followers of Böhme's theosophy.
Despite the death of Clement, his old followers remained together, and robbed a bank across the Missouri River from Lexington in Richmond, Missouri, on May 22, 1867 in which the Town Mayor and two lawmen were killed.
Despite the Anglo-Spanish peace treaty of 1604, in 1607 O ' Neill, his brother-in-law the Earl of Tyrconnell, and several of their followers fled to Europe, expecting the Spanish to invade Ireland with an army.
Despite assurances from the both the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan Usman Yusupov, Baghirov's rivalry with Barzani spilled over into Uzbekistan and resulted in Barzani himself and much of his followers to be separate and spread across the country to do hard labor.
Despite the central role played by Bandera's followers in the massacre of Poles in western Ukraine, Bandera himself was interned in a German concentration camp when the concrete decision to massacre the Poles was made and when the Poles were killed.
Despite his slumber, Ulutiu is still able to grant spells to his followers.
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Despite its ' underground ' status, it has fervent followers in Chile, Uruguay, Mexico and a plethora of countries world-wide.
Despite the Brotherhood's defeat at the end of the First Tiberium War, Kane's followers never wavered and always believed that he lived in death, and were vindicated when he rose again in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun almost thirty years later to once again lead waiting Nod forces worldwide and begin a new open war with the GDI.
" Despite a series of amusing and time-consuming mishaps on the trail, Seppala won the race against the bigger, slower dogs driven by Walden and his followers.
4.074 seconds.