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Despite the injury, Chamberlain withdrew his sword and stuck it into the ground in order to keep himself upright to dissuade the growing resolve for retreat.
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Despite the apparent risk, the statistical incidence of injury in supervised training and competition is extremely low.
Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.
Despite a rotator cuff injury during the 1985 season, Smith posted career highs in multiple offensive categories in 1987.
Despite this apparent success the underlying problems remained unresolved and had already resulted in the death or serious injury of 30, 000 civilians.
Despite his injury problems, McNair finished the season as the second leading rusher on the team with 337 yards and scoring 8 touchdowns.
Despite his injury problems in 1891, few doubted that Grace should captain England in Australia the following winter when he led Lord Sheffield's team to Australia in 1891 – 92.
Despite injury, Davenport reached the US Open quarterfinals, where she again lost to Henin.
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Despite finishing the 2005 – 06 season in seventh, Roeder's fortunes changed in the 2006 – 07 season, with a terrible injury run to the senior squad, and he left the club by mutual consent on 6 May 2007.
Despite still not having Hill due to injury, the Magic entered the playoffs for the third straight year.
Despite four 50-win seasons, the Bulls began to fall apart after an injury to Sloan and the retirement of Walker.
Despite the disappointment, Williams proved to be one of the elite point guards in the league, averaging 19. 4 points and 10. 8 assists per game, second in the league, despite playing the entire season with a lingering ankle injury.
Despite the injury, he continued to perform the entire show with a broken wrist, before heading to the emergency room.
Despite spending some three months of the season out with a muscle injury, the 1952 – 53 campaign proved Smith's words to be accurate, as a 38 year old Matthews won an FA Cup winners medal in a match which was, despite Mortensen's hat-trick, subsequently dubbed the ' Matthews Final '.
Despite his head injury, Cochrane served in the United States Navy during World War II as did Bill Dickey of the Yankees, giving the Navy the two greatest catchers baseball had yet seen ; with Yogi Berra also serving but not yet having reached the major leagues, there were actually three possible " greatest catchers ever " in the WWII-era Navy.
Despite being ranked within the world's top 16, Krajicek just missed out on the seedings for the tournament, but when seventh seed ( and world number two ) Thomas Muster pulled out shortly before the tournament due to an injury, Krajicek was given Muster's place in the draw.
Despite her knee injury, she made it to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Tsvetana Pironkova.
Despite all precautions, accidents and errors occur from time to time, which may result in property damage, injury and in severe cases loss of life.
Despite the injury, he competed in RallyCross three days later using hand controls mounted to the steering wheel.
Despite the protection and safety regulations, the rattan still occasionally causes pain or injury, such as a blow landing where it wasn't intended, i. e. the underarm or other parts that are generally not or difficult to cover with armor.
Despite these safety precautions, the ski racing community is well aware of the inherent risks in Downhill skiing, for it is possible for racers to suffer serious injury or death while practicing or competing.
Despite his performances dipping as the result of a persistent groin injury and a reported training ground bust-up with teammate Zlatan Ibrahimović, Vieira helped Juventus retain the Scudetto, which was later stripped.
Despite missing several months of the 2005 season due to the injury, Els won the second event on his return, the Dunhill Championship.
Despite his injury, Leslie was appointed Field Marshal in 1636 and was one of the Swedish commanders at the Battle of Wittstock in the same year.
Despite the injury, Oates finished fourth in the NHL with 41 assists in a season disrupted by a work stoppage.
Despite and Chamberlain
Despite several ferocious assaults, the 15th was ultimately unable to dislodge the Union troops, and was ultimately forced to retreat after a desperate bayonet charge led by the 20th Maine's commander, Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain.
Despite this noticeable executive action, Chamberlain was mistrustful of central authority and bureaucracy, preferring to give local communities the responsibility to act on their own initiative.
Despite having sat in Parliament for only four years, Chamberlain hoped for a cabinet position, and told Sir William Harcourt that he was prepared to lead a revolt and field Radical candidates in borough elections.
Despite being endorsed by Tory Democrats Lord Randolph Churchill and John Eldon Gorst, the Liberal government was unwilling to grant Chamberlain its full support and the Bill was withdrawn in July 1884.
Despite privately calling Cleveland a " coarse-grained man " and a " bully ", Chamberlain gradually favoured Salisbury's pragmatic strategy.
Despite the concerns of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, at the increasing costs of the war, Chamberlain maintained his insistence that the Boers be made to surrender unconditionally, and was supported by Salisbury.
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 these tensions, the Liberal Unionists more or less managed to stay together until 1903, when in a surprise move, Chamberlain dramatically launched Tariff Reform with a speech in his Birmingham political homeland.
Despite trailing third before Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain Law eventually won the election when the strong possibility of a draw between Long and Chamberlain that would split the party forced both to withdraw.
Despite the importance to history of these pressing issues, Chamberlain ’ s reputation chiefly rests on his part in the negotiations over what came to be known as the Locarno Pact of 1925.
Despite playing on the same team as the dominant Chamberlain, Thurmond made an impact and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team in 1964.
Despite losses, another wound ( in the left arm and chest ), and nearly being captured, Chamberlain was successful and brevetted to the rank of major general by President Abraham Lincoln.
Despite and withdrew
Despite the defeat, both sides withdrew, but Shawar remained in control with a crusader garrison in Cairo.
Despite the objections of his subordinates, Hooker withdrew his men to the defensive lines around Chancellorsville, ceding the initiative to Lee.
Despite the Emperor's ambitions for him, Gregory, then barely twenty years old, withdrew to Mount Athos in the year 1316 and became a novice there in the Vatopedi monastery under the guidance of the monastic Elder St Nicodemos of Vatopedi.
Despite drastically different personalities and several separations ( she filed, then withdrew, a divorce petition in 2002 ), they remain married.
Despite a number of TV performances, the single failed to reach the top 100 and as a result, Polydor withdrew the idea for a new album.
Despite victory at Falkirk, the Jacobites withdrew north on 1 February.
Despite sinking 115 Japanese ships, Yi withdrew his forces from Busan harbor after the battle due to the absence of a landing force.
Despite this, Israel withdrew troops from the northern Gaza Strip and was discussing the transfer of territory to Palestinian control.
Despite the heavy firing, the Japanese battleships completed the maneuver and rapidly withdrew out of range.
Despite this setback the remaining members of the troop successfully destroyed the aqueduct and withdrew from the area, but were all captured by the Italian authorities within a short time ; an Italian translator was tortured and executed and one paratrooper managed to escape captivity, but the rest remained as prisoners of war.
Despite the success, the town of Nijmegen was soon evacuated and the British withdrew from the Netherlands in 1795.
Despite the fact Ninety Six was the only remaining inland British outpost after the fall of Augusta, Georgia, Rawdon decided to burn and abandon it, and withdrew the garrison to Charleston.
Despite the heroic defense, Petropavlovsk was abandoned as a strategic liability after the Anglo-French forces withdrew.
Despite winning the battle, the Caliphate forces withdrew from the region.
Despite being involved in the founding of the NUS in 1922, Imperial College Union withdrew its membership of the NUS a year later.
Despite taking bookings for 2005 they withdrew from the route: a deal that would have seen Transmanche Ferries charter Superseacat One for the route fell through.
Despite this success the club decided that because of The Emergency the club could no longer compete in the league and withdrew from football.
Despite his victory, however, Manco Inca did not consider his position tenable so the following year he withdrew to the heavily forested site of Vilcabamba.
Despite their recent victories over the Byzantines, and the threat of the Byzantines being forced to become a client-state of the Sassanians, the Parthians unexpectedly withdrew from the confederation, and the Sassanians were thus ill-prepared and ill-equipped to mount an effective and cohesive defense against the Muslim invaders.
Despite a stiff fight between the boats, commanded by Captain Charles John Napier and the American batteries, the Bastion was unharmed and Brooke called off the attack and withdrew before dawn.
Despite the Rifles acting in a valiant manner, the expedition was defeated and withdrew on 26 August.
Despite his victory, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan withdrew to entrench at Harrison's Landing on the James River, where his army was protected by gunboats, ending the Peninsula Campaign.
Despite this, it has been widely rumoured that Zemmama will be leaving Middlesbrough this summer, after apparently refusing to travel if he was amongst the substitutes in the final matchday against Watford – Mowbray subsequently withdrew him from his travelling squad.
Despite their recent overhauls, South West Trains withdrew the entire fleet in 2007.
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