Despite its relatively recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration and the guideline recommendations, digoxin use is decreasing in patients with heart failure, likely the result of several factors.

Despite a large fan campaign, UPN declined to pick up the show.

Despite several trade offers from Montreal Canadiens ' GM Sam Pollock, Torrey refused to part with the pick.

Despite barely missing the playoffs and receiving the least chance of gaining the top draft pick with only one ball in the lottery, the Magic won the first pick in the 1993 NBA Draft Lottery.

Despite having only 1. 7 % probability, the Bulls won the NBA Draft Lottery and selected Chicago native Derrick Rose with the first pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

Despite the team's pre-draft banter, the Sun used the ninth overall pick to gamble on raw talent in Astan Dabo, an unheralded prospect from Mali.

Despite having the best odds of winning the draft lottery, the Bobcats did not obtain the first overall pick which they lost to the Hornets.

Despite an All-American career at the University of Tulsa, Largent was not selected until the fourth round of the 1976 NFL draft by the Houston Oilers ( 117th pick ).

Despite his status as a first round draft pick, Dawson was unable to make an impact with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Despite coming off a recent contract extension with the Lightning, on July 4, 2008, Boyle was traded along with Brad Lukowich to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Matt Carle, Ty Wishart, a first round draft pick in 2009 and a fourth round draft pick in 2010.

Despite excelling in the minors, York found it difficult to crack a deep Detroit lineup and, after playing only nineteen games over three seasons for the Red Wings, he was traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim April 5, 1995 along with Mike Sillinger in exchange for Stu Grimson, Mark Ferner, and a draft pick.

Despite Mercer's 16. 8 points per game in 2001 – 02, he was traded midway through the season with Brad Miller, Ron Artest ( now known as Metta World Peace ) and Kevin Ollie to the Indiana Pacers for Jalen Rose, Travis Best, Norman Richardson and a second-round draft pick.

Despite a 3-0 victory over Nevada Wonders in their first game, BYU's first season was a difficult one, and saw them pick up just one more victory all year, 2-1 over intra-divisional rivals Boulder Rapids Reserve in early July which featured goals by Matthew Affleck and Christopher Lamb.

Despite his training in economics and law, he was considered something of an unlikely pick to replace Ross Perot, Jr., who was named executive chairman.

Despite his outstanding stats at Seton Hall, questions about his attitude made him slip to the 7th pick of the 2001 NBA Draft, where he was selected by the New Jersey Nets.

Despite this information, the police failed to pick him up on his return on August 23.

Despite the increasing internationalization of the NBA ( especially towards European players ) and a steady presence of Italian players, ( including the historic first overall pick Andrea Bargnani of the 2006 NBA Draft ) the national team performed poorly in these years.

Despite having been originally eliminated at the first stage, Terry Wogan's " wild card " pick turned out to be the winner when the viewers voted Andy Abraham the victor with " Even If ".

Despite the weighted odds, the Orlando Magic managed to win the lottery in 1993 with only 1 chance to obtain the first pick as they were the best non-playoff team in the previous season.

Despite the name, many do not wear fanny packs on their rear because they are easier to pick pocket and harder to access.

Despite getting 2nd overall pick Victor Pablo, 7-Up failed to reach the semifinals in the first two conferences of the season.

Despite Mack coming very close, Sky was able to pick up the victory after delivering the Ace of Spades.

Despite a strong college career, Dorsey was selected in the 7th round ( pick 241 ) of the 2003 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers, due in part to concerns over Dorsey's arm strength.

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 the name " Chinese checkers ", the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia.

Despite the Rockies record-setting performance, the National League coaches and players didn't vote in any of Colorado's players for the NL Gold Glove award.

Despite only five appearances throughout the entire show, Vicious is arguably the series ' main antagonist, or at any rate the only recurring one.

Despite David's reputation, he was more fiercely criticized right after his death than at any point during his life.

Despite his lack of any scientific knowledge, Stephenson, by trial and error, devised a lamp in which the air entered via tiny holes.

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Despite his efforts to rise above the rank of private — he even called upon Frank Capra to intercede on his behalf — he never achieved officer's status or any commendations during his six months of service.

Despite the prescribed safety of GET requests, in practice their handling by the server is not technically limited in any way.

Despite having the go-ahead runs on base, Smith was able to escape the inning without any further damage.

Despite the language's intentionally obtuse and wordy syntax, INTERCAL is nevertheless Turing-complete: given enough memory, INTERCAL can solve any problem that a Universal Turing machine can solve.

Despite Iceman's often well-liked personality, he has always seemed unable to maintain any sort of long-time relationships, with one exception being Opal, although that too ended.

Despite vowing not to make any more films about the Nazi Party, in 1935, Riefenstahl made the 18-minute Day of Freedom: Armed Forces about the German army.

Despite advice to refuse “ any rotten compromise ”, Trotsky did not heed Lenin ’ s advice, and General Secretary Stalin retained power over the Communist Party and the bureaucracy of the soviet government.

Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite various characters having appeared within company publications for decades, few if any have aged to any appreciable degree.

Despite the contributions of Duffy and Mendez, there were no female members, as stipulated in the NCS ' constitution which specified that “ any cartoonist ( male ) who signs his name to his published work ” could apply for membership.

Despite the absence of any mountainous terrain in the province, there are large areas of uplands, particularly within the Canadian Shield which traverses the province from northwest to southeast and also above the Niagara Escarpment which crosses the south.

Despite this, the manuscript tradition of Plautus is poorer than that of any other ancient dramatist, something not helped by the failure of scholia on Plautus to survive.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

Despite the political campaigns launched in order to put Sardinian on an equal footing with Italian, and any emotive value linked to Sardinian identity, the sociolinguistic situation in Sardinia due to several reasons, mainly political and socioeconomic ( the gradual depopulation of the island's interior and rural exodus towards more urbanized and industrialized areas, the forced use of Italian presented as a prerequisite to get jobs and as one of the keys to social advancement, the barriers to communication between the dialectal varieties etc.

Despite saving the universe on multiple occasions, he seems unable to gain any respect from society, and works as a " sanitation engineer " ( in one form or another ) throughout the series.

Despite any reproaches from his master, The Education of the Children of Clovis was honorably received by critics and artists alike and was eventually purchased and subsequently given to King Leopold of Belgium.