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Despite the pleas of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln ordered Hunter to disband the black 1st South Carolina Regiment and to retract his proclamation.
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Despite his many pleas, Carthage only ever sent reinforcements successfully to Hispania.
Despite Alexandra's pleas for privacy, Queen Victoria insisted on announcing a period of court mourning, which led to unsympathetic elements of the press to describe the birth as " a wretched abortion " and the funeral arrangements as " sickening mummery ".
Despite the desperate pleas of Tamora, Titus sacrifices her eldest son, Alarbus, in order to avenge the deaths of his own sons during the war.
Despite Napoleon's pleas that he abdicate and leave Mexico, Maximilian refused to abandon the Mexican conservatives who had supported him, and remained alongside them until the bitter end, when he was captured by the Republicans and then shot on 19 June 1867.
Despite persistent pleas to reinforce this sector, Beauregard could not convince his colleagues of the danger.
Despite national and international pleas for amnesty, Juárez refused to commute the sentence, and Maximilian was executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867 at Cerro de las Campanas in Querétaro.
Despite the city's pleas for assistance from the militia, they were denied.
Despite both Monster and Dookie's pleas to flee the scene, Doughboy stops the car, gets out, takes his 45 ', and personally executes Ferris and the other wounded gang member, avenging his brother's death.
Despite initially hating him, Anne is won over by his pleas of love and repentance and agrees to marry him.
" Despite Turpin's pleas that he had been told the trial would be held in Essex, the judge replied: " Whoever told you so were highly to blame ; and as your country have found you guilty of a crime worthy of death, it is my office to pronounce sentence against you ", sentencing him to death.
Despite Gowron's pleas, Worf still refuses.
" Despite his pleas that he will repent, Scrooge falls into an empty coffin.
Despite pleas from former mayor David Crombie, urban planner / activist Jane Jacobs and Harbourfront residents, the TPA plan was supported by then-mayor Mel Lastman, who argued that the estimated $ 190 million of annual economic benefit the airport would create, was too good to pass up.
Despite Horton's impassioned pleas, he could not calm the mob.
Despite a number of different proposals over the years, and repeated pleas from the user base, the working group has been unable to reach a consensus on it.
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Despite Philip VI's especially desperate pleas in June 1346 ( when the English were amassing troops in southern England ), David II of Scotland waited until October, when he felt few English troops would be left to defend lucrative Northern English cities.
Despite the Inquisitor ’ s pleas, she is attacked and killed by the crowd.
Despite Hyde's pleas, President Clinton was acquitted of both perjury and obstruction of justice.
Despite Blythe's constant pleas not to break rules, Masoudi and even studious Mehta find themselves enjoying their rebellious tendencies with Bell.
Despite Laudermilk's pleas and promises of eternal life, the pair then destroy the machine completely, leaving the room pondering about the afterlife and reincarnation ; Doug's fond wish of being reincarnated as a girl's bicycle seat intriguing the both of them.
Despite the pleas of his comrades, he insisted that he must remain at his post.
Despite growing public pleas from fans who asked Keon to mend fences with the club, he refused saying that he would not have anything to do with the club unless it changes its policy of only " honouring " numbers of former star players instead of retiring them.
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Despite the US State Department's opposition, the WJC obtained permission from the US Treasury Department, headed by Henry Morgenthau, to transmit funds to Europe for the rescue and assistance of persecuted Jews.
Despite these concerns, Secretary of Treasury Geithner and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gensler are not in favor of an outright ban on naked credit default swaps.
Despite the Treasury refusing to help by extending the coal and wine dues which paid for the Board, it went ahead with the plans, but saw its Private Bill rejected by the House of Commons.
Despite speculation following the 2005 general election that he would return as a member of the Government, he did not do so, although in the post-election reshuffle there were reports that he was offered – and accepted – the cabinet post of Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being told that the post had been assigned instead to Des Browne.
Despite Treasury Board rules requiring a bidding process for contracts of $ 25, 000 or more, Flaherty admitted his office broke government contracting rules in hiring MacPhie & Company to help write the 2007 budget speech and provide advice on how to sell the document.
Despite its foundation resulting from a recommendation in a report on Film and National Life, at that time the institute was a private company, though it has received public money throughout its history-from the Privy Council and Treasury until 1965 and the various culture departments since then.
Despite the facility's years of faithful service, in 1909 Treasury officials halted minting activity in New Orleans by simply refusing to appropriate funds for its operation.
Despite being defended by Salmon P. Chase, future Secretary of Treasury for Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice of the United States from 1864-1873, Van Zandt was ruled against by the court.
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Despite advice to refuse “ any rotten compromise ”, Trotsky did not heed Lenin ’ s advice, and General Secretary Stalin retained power over the Communist Party and the bureaucracy of the soviet government.
Despite Ekéus ' belief that Iraq was nearly certifiable as being free of such weapons, U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that United Nations sanctions would not be lifted until such time as Hussein was no longer in power.
Despite defeat, his performance was seen to mark a revival of the Socialists as a strong force in French politics and he returned to being the First Secretary of the party.
Despite standing, and losing convincingly, against Thatcher in the second round, Whitelaw managed to maintain his position as Deputy Leader until the 1979 general election, when he was appointed Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister in Thatcher's new government.
Despite not receiving his support in the vote, Callaghan kept Benn as Energy Secretary.
Despite being an ardent pro-tobacco advocate, he was appointed Health Secretary in 1988, in which office he introduced the controversial ' internal market ' concept in the NHS.
Despite his formal leadership role, however, his only actual title was Colonial Secretary, a position comparable to the Minister of Internal Affairs.
Despite this significant defeat, Mayor McKibben, who still held office until the ballots had been certified by the Georgia Secretary of State later that week, said that she would contest the results.
Despite a hard-fought battle throughout the Mid-1990s by local politicians to have the decommissioned and mothballed USS Missouri, already in the Bremerton Navy Yard, stay in Bremerton as a museum ship and tourist attraction, Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton, awarded the ship to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, HI in 1998.
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Despite a consensus of European monarchs who considered the treaty nullified by the execution of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, President George Washington sided with his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and declared the treaty would remain in effect, despite the regime change in France.
Despite the Three Excellencies — including the Chancellor, Imperial Secretary, and irregularly the Grand Commandant — representing the most senior ministerial positions of state, this triumvirate was supported by the economic technocrat and Imperial Secretary Sang Hongyang ( d. 80 BC ), their political lackey.
Despite this, according to Major General Indar Jit Rikhye, military adviser to the United Nations Secretary General, the accusation of a blockade was " questionable ," pointing out that an Israeli-flagged ship had not passed through the straits in two years, and that " The U. A. R.
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" Despite this legal endorsement and the AF Secretary approval, the USAF did not award the medal to any Iran hostages until November 2011.
Despite being in Parliament for a very long time he has been resigned to the backbenches for many years after taking the fall in a scandal involving another minister who would go on to become Secretary of State for Wales.
Despite the presidency's executive powers, Prime Minister Khamtai Siphandon held the country's most powerful position as General Secretary of the LPRP.
Despite this support, in April 1829, John H. Eaton, Secretary of War ( 1829 – 1831 ), informed Ross that President Jackson would support the right of Georgia to extend her laws over the Cherokee people.
Despite some incriminating evidence ( in connection with Peter the Painter ), Peters and his companions were acquitted to the dismay of the Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
Despite the " personal fondness " of the President and his wife for Welles, he continued, the President sided with Hull because supporting a subordinate would promote revolts in other government agencies, Hull was politically connected and popular with Congress, and the Senate, he was told, would not support Welles for Secretary of State or any other office.
Despite Charles's best attempts, Gayle won because she bribed the Home Secretary, as she was having an affair with someone in the Home Office.
Despite US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's insistence that the United Kingdom should ' pay the blood price ' by sending troops to Vietnam as ' the unwritten terms of the Special Relationship ', Wilson refused to commit regular forces, only special forces instructors.
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