Despite his immense obesity and impending mortality, however, Louis the Fat remained clear-minded.

Despite Euler's immense contribution to the Academy's prestige, he was eventually forced to leave Berlin.

Despite the immense economic growth, however, the standard of living for city laborers and farmers was still low.

Despite his smallness, the tomte / nisse possessed an immense strength.

Despite Chamberlain's organisational skills and immense popularity, many Conservatives still mistrusted his Radicalism, and Chamberlain was aware of the difficulties that would be presented by being part of a Liberal Unionist minority leading a Conservative majority.

Despite Ataru's lack of interest in Lum ( due of immense shame that the tag game brought to him ) and attempts to rekindle his relationship with Shinobu, Lum frequently interferes and eventually Shinobu loses interest in Ataru.

Despite any tactical imbalance, the strategic value of Fleurus was immense for the French.

Despite this, Kelley still found immense value in the laugh track.

Despite the political and social isolation of these regions, Italy's contributions to the cultural and historical heritage of Europe remain immense.

Despite running for only two series, Pop Idols impact was immense and led 19 Entertainment and Fremantle Media to roll the format out globally ; currently there are over 50 versions in 110 countries, including, notably, American Idol, on which Cowell as a judge until 2010, before launching The X Factor USA in 2011.

Despite the immense wealth present in the Bazaar during centuries ( still around 1870, according to an English traveler a tour of the inner Bedesten could easily ruin a few Rothschild families ), thievery occurred extremely seldom.

Despite his immense internal strength, Larsen at times shows signs of weakness and depression.

Despite of his immense popularity as a Malay leader, Tunku held no office in any Malay organisation, at a time when far-sighted planning and balanced opinions were of vital importance.

Despite the political and social isolation of these regions, Italy's contributions to the cultural and historical heritage of the Western world remain immense.

Despite this fact, many individual soldiers, including many drafted in Ireland, showed immense heroism and performed great deeds of honour during the action.

Despite an overwhelming Democratic majority, the 86th United States Congress was not able to accomplish much of their agenda since the President had immense popularity and a veto pen.

Despite his immense inherited fortune, he is far from extravagant, and uses the vast majority of his money for philanthropy or civic projects.

Despite the party's loss, Telegdi continued to enjoy immense support in his riding, fending off the Conservative challenger Ajmer Mandur by over 12000 votes.

Despite the immense damage he took, Megatron's commands to Runabout and Runamuck indicate that Starscream had survived.

Despite his military skills, Faidherbe was never able to form an army strong enough to seriously worry the Prussians, as his army, composed of raw recruits, suffered immense supply difficulties and low morale in the freezing winter of 1870 / 71.

Despite an overwhelming Democratic majority, the 86th United States Congress was not able to accomplish much of their agenda since the President had immense popularity and a veto pen.

Despite their firepower, the Plasma Bug's role for offensive actions is mainly limited to fire support and long-range bombardment due to its huge size and the immense danger to nearby Bugs from a plasma explosion should one be hit.

Despite immense German numerical superiority, the Polish forces were able to score several tactical victories ; however they were increasingly running low on supplies, including ammunition.

Despite this finding, there was immense political and social pressure on James Hardie to negotiate a compensation deal ; governments were boycotting James Hardie products and unions were threatening to instigate a global union movement against the company based on a black ban of James Hardie products.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite financial difficulties, Caligula embarked on a number of construction projects during his reign.

Despite mechanization, production difficulties related to humidity control, especially during the pressing, were still present in the late 19th century.

Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.

Despite a potentially workable design, there were still substantial difficulties in constructing a full-scale engine.

Despite the difficulties, Tirpitz persuaded the Reichstag to pass a further Novelle in March 1908.

Despite their planned integration into the Kosovar society and their recognition in the Kosovar constitution, Romani and other minorities ( i. e. Ashkali and Egyptian communities ) continue to face many difficulties, such as segregation and discrimination, in housing, education, health, employment and social welfare.

Despite financial difficulties, Frank was always the spotlight of fun around the household.

Despite its external trade difficulties, Mongolia has continued to press ahead with reform.

" Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that: " My favorite single is ' My Favorite Mistake ,' it was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play.

Despite the difficulties, it is expected that the deficit will reach 3. 3 % in 2013.

Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a sexist society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.

Despite the difficulties, these problems can be analysed in terms of how model-building observers infer from measurements the computational capabilities embedded in non-linear processes.

Despite the army's access to the armaments factories of Lille, the Army of the North suffered from severe supply difficulties which kept the soldiers ' already poor morale at a permanently low level.

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Despite the economic difficulties, what truly produced the demise of the UAR was Nasser's inability to find a suitable political system for the new regime.

Despite these difficulties, utilizing the Yarkovsky effect is one scenario under investigation to alter the course of potentially Earth-impacting near-Earth asteroids.

Despite these conceptual difficulties, under most definitions the radii of isolated neutral atoms range between 30 and 300 pm ( trillionths of a meter ), or between 0. 3 and 3 angstroms.

Despite the economic difficulties faced by the First Wilson Government, it succeeded in maintaining low levels of unemployment and inflation during its time in office.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.

Despite difficulties solving the differential equation for hydrogen ( he had later help from his friend the mathematician Hermann Weyl ) Schrödinger showed that his non-relativistic version of the wave equation produced the correct spectral energies of hydrogen, in a paper published in 1926.

Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called " Ithaca " was universally held to be the home of Odysseus ; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of Lipari as the island of Aeolus, are usually taken with a grain of salt, and attributed to the ancient tourist trade.

Despite his difficulties with Greek and mathematics, he stood at the head of his class in preparatory school.

Despite the foreign and domestic difficulties during his reign, which culminated in the fall of Constantinople and of the Byzantine Empire, contemporary sources generally speak respectfully of the Emperor Constantine.

Despite being a phenomenally successful playwright during his lifetime, his propensity for high living ( he had a table permanently reserved for him at Maxim's ), gambling, and the failure of his marriage led to financial difficulties.