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Despite the objections of his subordinates, Hooker withdrew his men to the defensive lines around Chancellorsville, ceding the initiative to Lee.
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Despite his family's objections and the added pressure of raising a second daughter, France, born on 12 July, Brel left Brussels for Paris in the fall of 1953.
Despite the objections, he convinces the staff to go along with it, and Robbins starts the plane's engines.
Despite his objections to the Commissioner's Plan of 1811, which ran the new Ninth Avenue through the middle of his estate, Moore began the development of Chelsea with the help of James N. Wells, dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers.
Despite objections in Parliament, the deployment went ahead.
Despite objections by the captains of three of his ships, the attack proceeded.
Despite objections from some parties who stood to gain nothing, the bankruptcy judge approved the plan on April 30, 2010.
Despite such objections, local Papatoetoe businesses hope to invest in more closed circuit television surveillance cameras to deal with what they view as ' antisocial ' and ' public nuisance ' behaviour allegedly ancillary to street sex work.
( Despite objections by Anielewicz, Russie insists on praying for the souls of the civilians killed in the blast.
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Despite objections in world forums such as the United Nations, Portugal had long maintained that its African colonies were an integral part of Portugal, and felt obliged to militarily defend them against Communist-inspired armed groups, particularly after India's annexation of Portuguese exclaves Goa, Daman and Diu ( Portuguese India ), in 1961 ( see Indian Invasion of Goa ).
Despite objections that it promoted the wrong image of Scotland to foreign visitors and embarrassed local travellers, the airport management insisted the logo was " fun and visually stimulating ".
Despite these mistakes and widespread objections from both faculty and students, the Board of Trustees of Kean University voted 7-4 ( with one abstention ) to retain Dr. Farahi as President of the University.
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Despite and subordinates
Despite the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu ( r. 174 – 160 BCE ) and Emperor Wen ( r. 180 – 157 BCE ) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raided Han territories south of the Great Wall for additional goods.
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Despite this, human rights organizations and PCC members argue that some Generals and their subordinates in the Colombian National Army have contributed either indirectly or directly to many of the violent actions of drug lords, paramilitaries and death squads against the PCC.
Despite his gruff exterior, he cares deeply for his subordinates and respects them, especially Steve.
Despite Beria's history as Stalin's most ruthless subordinates, he was at the forefront of destalinization and liberalisation after Stalin's death, possibly as a means of winning support for his campaign to become leader.
Despite being wracked with desire to return home to his wife he subordinates his feelings to his duty, thus embodying an idealised Soviet vision of patriotism.
Despite repeated warnings from his subordinates, the Corps commander, General der Infanterie Arthur Hauffe, did not order further withdrawal, condemning the three XIII Army Corps divisions and Korps-Abteilung C in the Brody salient to their fate.
Despite his prior designation of Qian Chuanguan as heir, he, in order to test the subordinates ' loyalty, stated, " I will surely not recover from this illness.
Despite and Hooker
Despite refusing to raise or spend any money in these efforts, Hooker nonetheless finished third in the senatorial primary and second in the gubernatorial primary held on August 3.
Despite and withdrew
Despite the defeat, both sides withdrew, but Shawar remained in control with a crusader garrison in Cairo.
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 injury, Chamberlain withdrew his sword and stuck it into the ground in order to keep himself upright to dissuade the growing resolve for retreat.
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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