Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes.

Despite heavy casualties the Prussians attempted to storm the great battery, whilst the Danes, under Count Scholten, attempted to drive the French infantry out of the copses beyond the village.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

Despite his heavy drinking his liver showed no sign of cirrhosis.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

Despite some increases in heavy industry in the economy during the 1970s and 1980s, Paraguayan industry was generally small-scale.

Despite heavy criticism from other religious groups, there are signs that Satanistic beliefs have become more socially tolerated.

Despite the heavy influence he drew from American hip hop in his debut album, Maxinquaye, he fights against typical sexual representations by, for example, dressing as a woman on the side sleeve of his album cover.

Despite the anime series itself being on hold, Sunrise gave artist Katsu Aki the existing production and character designs, resulting in the first manga series having the heavy shōnen feel and curvaceous Hitomi that was originally planned for the anime series.

Despite discussion of programs to require payments for resources ( especially water ) and to collect fines from heavy polluters, however, little has been accomplished.

Despite heavy lobbying in favour of one of the existing projects, it soon became apparent that private industry could not turn out a car for only 990RM.

Despite Von Kuhl's caution, two divisions, thirteen heavy batteries and twelve field batteries of artillery, three fighter squadrons and four other air force units were transferred from the Fourth Army.

Despite this, they won a complete victory, routing the enemy army from the field and inflicting heavy losses.

Despite his best efforts he was typically cast as a " heavy " ( villain ) or gangster.

Despite repeated assaults and heavy fighting, the Turks were unable to breach the defences and were forced to raise the siege after 22 days.

Despite its promising appearance and engineering novelty the Pipit did not fly as well as expected, the elevator being criticised as heavy while the rudder was weak and the type was longitudinally unstable.

Despite having inflicted heavy casualties against the Somalis, the two Delta snipers were too outnumbered and outgunned.

Despite the heavy bombardment, many of the German defenders had survived, protected in deep dugouts and they were able to inflict a terrible toll on the infantry.

Despite the heavy industrial component, services account for 74. 9 % of GDP, while agriculture accounts for only 1 % of GDP.

Despite this, there are also smaller parades and demonstrations on 1 July, the date which maps the old style date of the Boyne to the new style in the usual manner and which also commemorate the heavy losses of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Despite the demand for electrical consumer goods and large investments in heavy engineering and nuclear power, profits began to fall for the first time in the face of increasing competition and internal disorganisation.

Despite heavy preparations for defence against an amphibious assault, the Allied invasion took place well to the west in Normandy on D-Day.

Despite this, Philip resumed his march, and his troops became confused and disoriented due to heavy fog.

Despite the listing and the pool becoming closed to the public, the buildings were subjected to heavy vandalism.

Despite recent Republican dominance at the local office level, Clermont has seen heavy union and non-partisan influence in its politics.

Despite the generally high precipitation, the weather is less cloudy than in the adjacent Kuril Islands that are one of the least sunny places in the world, since the city is located behind a peninsula to the north that blocks some of the fog from the Oyashio Current.

Despite its low rainfall, extreme summer temperatures are marginally more moderate than nearby extremely wet towns like Forks, owing to the coastal fog.

Despite the fog, they find the aircraft carrier, but his aircraft crashes during landing, fatally trapping Windy in the burning wreckage.

Despite the fog, the ships were bombed.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

Despite the instructions referring to a finite fleet, the Commodore 64 game never ends: when you clear the eighth ship called " Itsnotardenuff ", you're just replaced back on the ship, with higher-ranking droids on each deck.

Despite missing two of the six stages, the simultaneous two player mode and gameplay being much easier than its arcade counterpart, the Commodore port is generally considered to be one of the best arcade conversions on this system.

Despite being a commercial failure when it was initially released Congo Bongo has been ported to nearly every major gaming platform of the day, including SG-1000, MSX, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Commodore 64 ( twice-by Sega in 1983 and by U. S. Gold in 1985 ), IBM PC, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 and Atari 8-bit computers.

Despite the rejection, the Admiral and the Commodore quickly leave the proceedings, advising that his only authorization will be from the President himself.

Despite limited RAM and disk capacity, the Commodore 64 was a popular platform for BBS hosting.

Despite this, the game retained a dedicated base of fans, some of whom were able to modify their computers to enjoy it better ( for example, by using a CMD SuperCPU in a standard 1-MHz 6502 Commodore 64 to achieve CPU clock speeds of 20 MHz ).

Despite sharing a last name, he is not related to the early 20th century astronomer Frank Watson Dyson, but as a small boy Freeman Dyson was aware of Frank Watson Dyson.

Despite his poor academic performance and having been arrested twice during high school, Watson was able to use his mother's connections to gain admission to Furman College in Greenville, South Carolina.

Despite this modest start, in less than two years Watson had risen to a vice-presidency at Thompson.

Despite this, Watson doubts its value, for Vegetius " was neither a historian nor a soldier: his work is a compilation carelessly constructed from material of all ages, a congeries of inconsistencies ".

" Despite this, Watson is dubious of its value, for he " was neither a historian nor a soldier: his work is a compilation carelessly constructed from material of all ages, a congeries of inconsistencies.

Despite a brilliant final round 66 at the Masters, he finished second by two shots to Tom Watson.

Despite the losing season, goaltender Bob Watson was named Goaltender of the Year.

Despite entering the race long after his primary opponent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Westly's campaign picked up considerable momentum, receiving endorsements from such figures as Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Congressmembers Grace Napolitano, Diane Watson, and Brad Sherman, State Senators Carole Migden, Martha Escutia, and Nell Soto, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, Assembly Members Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Rudy Bermudez, and Nicole Parra, former Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, the majority of the Los Angeles City Council, and other elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

Despite the departure of original keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald and guitarist Jeff Watson, the band has continued to tour and remains very popular in Asian countries, especially Japan.

Despite the lack of in-game urgency, Watson ran at full speed, reaching home plate approximately four seconds before Dave Concepción, who had just homered in Cincinnati and was also racing around the basepaths.