[permalink] [id link]
Despite the losses in the Palawan Passage and Sibuyan Sea actions, the Japanese Center Force was still very powerful, consisting of four battleships ( including the giant ), six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and 11 destroyers.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Despite and losses
Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.
Despite entering December with a record of 8 – 3, Dallas lost its slim grip on 1st place in the division with losses to the New York Giants and San Diego.
Despite losses for the SPD, the Red-Green coalition government commanded a very slight majority in the Bundestag and was renewed, with Joschka Fischer as foreign minister, Renate Künast as minister for consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture, and Jürgen Trittin as minister for the environment.
Despite the losses, the Manufactory served as a playground of innovation, both in turning a large amount of cotton, but also developing the water-powered milling structure used in Slater's Mill.
Despite the offseason losses and controversies, the Brewers fans still looked forward to the 2012 season with great optimism, as the Brewers, by the end of February, had sold over 1. 5 million tickets, the most before the month of March.
Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.
Despite its losses in Berlin, support for the Left Party / PDS and its WASG ally remain stable at about eight to ten percent of the vote.
Despite his losses, Emperor Yeshaq was still able to continue field armies against Jamal.
Despite its favored position, the RTC and its predecessor ( SRC ) experienced regular losses that had to be covered by government appropriations.
Despite the pacific movement in the aftermath of the war, the losses still caused irredentist and revanchist nationalism to became important in a number of European states.
Despite this, they won a complete victory, routing the enemy army from the field and inflicting heavy losses.
Despite having valuable technology, CDC still suffered from huge losses in 1985 and 1986 while attempting to reorganize.
Despite the losses, Einhorn was actually willing to stick it out until Hemmeter announced the Winds were going to try to sign Namath.
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 losses suffered by the Royal Flying Corps, the Imperial German Army Air Service failed to prevent the Royal Flying Corps from carrying out its prime objective, namely the continued support of the army throughout the Arras Offensive with up-to-date aerial photographs and reconnaissance information.
Despite a lopsided comparison in terms of the two teams ' win-loss records, three of the four Pacers losses were close, losing games 1 – 3 by an average of just 5 points.
Despite showing great resilience against Collingwood, the Dmons were handed two further blows with losses to Adelaide and St Kilda.
Despite the losses in tax revenues owing to construction of the bypass, the local government continues to operate through cost-saving, cooperative efforts with Middle Paxton Township.
Despite heavy losses, Minas Tirith itself was not seriously threatened again and the battle was won by Gondor and its allies from Rohan and Gondor's fiefs.
Despite significantly outnumbering the British force ( British estimates place the allied army size at 70, 000 to the British 7, 000 ), the allies were repulsed with heavy losses.
Despite the enormous losses of the disastrous 1940 – 1942 period, known to the Germans as the " First " and " Second Happy Time ", the Air Ministry refused to invest in trade defence.
Despite their successes, the armies of Morgoth had suffered severe losses, and he recalled his hosts in the spring, ending the main battle.
Despite the losses, earnings for Netflix jumped 63 percent for the third quarter of 2011.
Despite severe financial losses in late 1720, in January 1722 the company's directors sent Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont to Missouri to protect the company's trade networks on the Missouri River from Spanish influence.
Early August, 1970: Despite their losses, the Soviets and Egyptians manage to press the air defenses closer to the canal, shooting down a number of Israeli aircraft.
Despite and Palawan
Despite the latter common name, it does not occur in the island of Leyte but is instead native to the Palawan island group.
Despite and Passage
Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.
Despite appearing in such films as A Passage to India ( 1984 ) and Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ), he never made a name for himself as a film star, but has continued in a succession of starring roles on television.
Despite and Sea
Despite several attempted invasions across the Red Sea, Kaleb was unable to dislodge Abreha, and acquiesced in the change ; this was the last time Ethiopian armies left Africa until the 20th century when several units participated in the Korean War.
Despite adopting this style, and that the Vandals maintained their sea-power and their hold on the islands of the western Mediterranean Sea, Huneric did not have the prestige that his father Genseric had enjoyed with other states.
Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.
Despite draining into the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean is near enough to be seen from the mountains of Ometepe ( an island in the lake ).
Despite his strong dislike of Wegener, Raeder agreed that it had been a huge mistake on the part of Germany not to have occupied Norway, the " Gate to the Atlantic " in 1914 as control of Norway would allowed Germany to escape the North Sea by breaking the British distant blockade.
Despite administrative and logistic difficulties, a fleet of eighty ships, under General at Sea George Monck, the Commonwealth veteran ( after the Duke of Albemarle ), set sail at the end of May 1666.
Despite its proximity to the Irish Sea, the temperature regime is similar to areas further inland, owing to the shelter provided by the Pennines to the northeast and the Welsh Mountains to the southwest.
Despite this attempt, the team was forced to use outboard motors for most of their journey, and it was not until January 29, 2005, when Canadian Les Jickling and New Zealander Mark Tanner reached the Mediterranean Sea, that the river had been paddled for the first time under human power from source to sea.
Despite the expectation of Brandt ( 1889 ) to date no evidence has surfaced of Azazel as a demon or god prior to the earliest Jewish sources among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Despite 80 % of the department's territory being mountainous, Antioquia also has a coast on the Caribbean Sea, in the lowland area of the Urabá.
Despite the Doctor's efforts to convince them otherwise, the Sea Devils eventually decided to go to war, forcing the Doctor to destroy their base.
Despite its northerly location, closeness of the peninsula to the Gulf Stream leads to unusually high temperatures in winter, but also results in high winds due to the temperature variations between land and the Barents Sea.
" Despite this absence, his reign is attested from a few inscriptions in Wadi Hammamat that record expeditions to the Red Sea coast and to quarry stone for the royal monuments.
Despite this, the Bulgarian attack by First and Third Army which together accounted for 107, 386 rifleman, 3, 115 cavalry, 116 machine guns and 360 artillery pieces defeated the reinforced Ottoman Army consisting of 126, 000 riflemen, 3, 500 cavalry, 96 machine guns and 342 artillery pieces and reached the Sea of Marmara.
Despite the later Empire's encompassing of lands around the periphery of the Mediterranean Sea, naval battles were typically less significant than land battles to the military history of Rome, due to its largely unchallenged dominance of the sea following fierce naval fighting during the First Punic War.
Despite this, the actual identity of the Sea Peoples has remained enigmatic and modern scholars have only the scattered records of ancient civilizations and archaeological analysis to inform them.
Despite the excessive wetness of the climate, summers are no more uncomfortable or humid than in the rest of southern Japan: indeed humidity is marginally lower than on cities close to the Seto Inland Sea or on the southern Sea of Japan.
Despite some notable disasters, such as the wrecking of a gun running yacht on the Romanian coast, he had some success in smuggling these arms into Russia via Finland and the Black Sea.
Despite efforts to stop them, they then built the " Mountains to Sea " railroad right under the noses of the big railroads and the elite group of a few industrialists ( so-called " robber barons ") who controlled them.
Despite these failures, Allenby had established two bridgeheads across the Jordan north of the Dead Sea which were retained during the ensuing occupation of the southern Jordan Valley.
Despite the harsh conditions the islands do support vegetation and are part of the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the South Shetland Islands and Bouvet Island.
Despite its Latin name, which means German or Germanic medlar, it is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe, mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey.
Despite losing their first two matches of the season ( both by small margins ) the Sea Eagles built on their 2005 season to once again advance to the play-offs.
3.174 seconds.