Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

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 fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Unfortunately in the literature the definition is given in two variants: Despite the fact that Bernoulli defined B < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 / 2 ( now known as " second Bernoulli numbers "), some authors set B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 (" first Bernoulli numbers ").

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

Despite the fact that it has not been formally proven, the Church – Turing thesis now has near-universal acceptance.

Despite the fact that Increase Mather did not support the trials, Cotton Mather documented them ( Hovey 531-2 ).

Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places.

Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous ( Captain Marvel's powers came from magic, unlike Superman's ), the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred.

Despite the fact that Einhard was on intimate terms with Charlemagne, he never achieved office in his reign.

Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

Despite the fact that 78. 1 % of the air we breathe is nitrogen, the gas is nutritionally useless.

Despite the fact that Palamism has never been officially condemned by the Catholic Church, Western theologians have tended to reject it, often equating it with quietism.

Despite the fact that Michael Collins – the de facto leader of the IRA – had negotiated the Treaty, many IRA officers were against it.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Despite the fact that Nazis are portrayed as the enemy in Wolfenstein, the use of those symbols is a federal offense in Germany unless certain circumstances apply.

Despite periodic crises of confidence and lingering Iraqi resentment over Jordan's close ties with Saddam Hussein, the two countries have managed to forge deep ties, in fact, Jordan has taken the lead among Arab states to do so.

Despite the Rhodesian Constitution of 1965 coming into effect as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, appeals continued to be accepted by the Privy Council as late as 1969 due to the fact that under international law, Rhodesia remained a UK colony.

Despite the absence of conditional jumps, the Z3 was a Turing complete computer ( ignoring the fact that no physical computer can be truly Turing complete because of limited storage size ).

Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor, and adapted after the AMD purchase.

Despite Vatanen's nearly fatal accident in Argentina, in the middle of the season, his team-mate and compatriot Timo Salonen led Peugeot to its first drivers ' and manufacturers ' world championship titles, well ahead of Audi and their Audi Sport Quattro.

Despite its dependence on the British market, Argentina managed a 6. 7 % annual rate of growth of exports between 1870 and 1890 as a result of successful geographic and commodity diversification.

Despite the large investment and initial success of the team, the Chileans would be defeated in the last match by eventual champions Argentina.

Despite entering as heavy favorites for being the reigning world champions ( having won the 1986 FIFA World Cup ), playing at home and having a team largely composed of its World Cup winners led by the legendary Diego Maradona, Argentina would finish in a disappointing fourth place after being beaten by defending champions Uruguay 0-1 in the semifinals.

Despite having to fare from mid-season with two substitute co-drivers after Juha Piironen suffered a brain hemorrhage, Kankkunen went on to take a record fourth drivers ' title by winning five of his ten WRC events ; the Safari Rally with Piironen, the Rally Argentina, the Rally Australia and the RAC Rally with his new co-driver Nicky Grist, and the 1000 Lakes Rally with Denis Giraudet due to Grist's pre-arrangement with Armin Schwarz.

Despite initiating the war Argentina had not prepared a plan for the subsequent defence of the islands.

Despite having completed his coaching badges in Argentina, he currently has no involvement with football ( instead he prefers to play polo and golf ).

Despite a victory, he ended up on the losing team against Spain in the Davis Cup finals in Argentina ( The Argentine team lost 1 – 3 ).

Despite the bad start, the team won 4 – 0 against World Cup-debuting featherweights Greece and 2 – 0 against Argentina.

Despite having toured successfully, the squad did not win any title in Argentina.

Despite Johnstone's rich vein of scoring form in 1978, he was overlooked by Ally McLeod during Scotland's ill-fated World Cup campaign in Argentina.

Despite the fact that he had not fought outside Spain as a professional yet and thus he had little international fan recognition as a boxer, Castillejo received his first world title try, when he challenged Julio César Vásquez of Argentina, for Vazquez's WBA light middleweight title, on April 24 of 1993, also in Leganes.

Despite Horna winning his first ever ATP singles title defeating Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 7 – 6 ( 5 ), 6 – 4 in Acapulco.

Despite this he had a measure of success, marked by Ireland winning on 19 March 2000 in Paris against France for the first time since 1972, when a Brian O ' Driscoll hat-trick of tries inspired Ireland to a 25 – 27 win, but a poor 1999 World Cup campaign in which they failed to make it to the finals after losing narrowly to Argentina in a play-off game by 24 – 28.

Despite a relative lack of success at the Olympic level in more traditional sports like athletics, swimming, and gymnastics, Argentina has had successful participations in other sports like association football, basketball, boxing, field hockey, tennis and volleyball.

Despite good performances in World Championship, Argentina has not won any World Champion titles.

Despite no player reaching fifty, East Africa's 261 / 8 was always likely to be too good for Argentina, and so it proved as the South Americans were dismissed 84 runs short for 177, A Kumar claiming 6-26.

Despite considerable controversy within Chile and Argentina, Tompkins ' environmental work has won him respect and accolades outside of South America: in 2012, the African Rainforest Conservancy awarded Doug and wife Kris their " New Species Award ; in 2007, the International Conservation Caucus Foundation awarded their " Good Steward " award to him and his wife Kris ; in 2008, the American Alpine Club awarded him the David R. Brower Award in 2009, for his work preserving mountain regions ; in 2009, Latin Trade named him the " Environmental Leader of the Year.

Despite this, Bielsa was given a second chance to lead Argentina to major success and stayed on his position.