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Despite the power it wielded, the panorama detached audiences from the scene they viewed, replacing reality and encouraging them to watch the world rather than experience it.
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Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.
Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.
Despite movement toward democratic reform, power remains in the hands of a northern ethnic oligarchy.
Despite two coup attempts in the following three months, including one by Abeid, Bacar ’ s government remained in power, and was apparently more willing to negotiate with Comoros.
Despite the democratic constitution, the government under Chiang was a one-party state, consisting almost completely of mainlanders ; the " Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion " greatly enhanced executive powers, and the goal of retaking mainland China allowed the KMT to maintain a monopoly on power and the prohibition of opposition parties.
Despite the limitations imposed on ancient Chinese concubines, history and literature have examples of concubines achieving great power and influence.
Despite its many ( serious ) limitations, including extremely low volume, it has considerable expressive power, the player being able to control attack, duration, volume, and even provide certain subtle effects of swelling of tone and a type of vibrato unique to the clavichord.
) Despite this, Conté's grip on power remained tight.
Despite the democratic, constitutional framework, the military has exercised substantial power and interfered repeatedly in civilian leadership since multi-party elections were instituted in 1994.
Despite these problems, the growing inflow of American silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.
Despite the intent of the original allocation, in recent years the fastest-growing uses of these bands have been for short-range, low power communications systems.
Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.
Despite this, unions were formed and began to acquire political power, eventually resulting in a body of labour law that not only legalized organizing efforts, but codified the relationship between employers and those employees organized into unions.
Despite this he was appointed to and helped change the Luftwaffes tactical direction towards producing fast medium bombers that were to destroy enemy air power in the battle zone rather than through industrial bombing of its aviation production.
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 the failure of his attempt at unifying the nation under his rule, Kim Il-sung considered the war a victory in the sense that he remained in power.
Despite different labeling, the function remains the same — to provide additional power for amplification of the signal.
Despite a tendency of American perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law.
Despite the Francophone majority in Lower Canada, most of the power was concentrated on the Anglophone minority, who exploited the lack of a secret ballot to intimidate the electorate.
Despite their wealth they had little power in the feudal system dominated by the rural land owners, and across Europe began to advocate for their own privileges and powers.
Despite such power, the political commissars whose Chekist detachments retreated or broke in the face of the enemy earned the death penalty.
Despite the broad power authorized under Section 98, it targeted specifically the Communist Party of Canada.
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 his pragmatic acceptance of the new power balance in the Pacific after World War II and his strong support for the American alliance, he publicly professed continued admiration for links with Britain, exemplified by his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II, and famously described himself as " British to the bootstraps ".
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Despite this, Plutarch mentions that this caused little friction between the two men, and even posits that Tiberius would have never fallen victim to assassination had Scipio not been away campaigning against the very same Numantines given the amount of political clout that Scipio wielded in Rome.
Despite this, Douglas was greatly respected by party members and Canadians at large as the party wielded considerable influence during the minority governments of Lester Pearson.
' Despite his " heavily concentrated armor in his front section ", he falls as result of a number of blasts from the invading Decepticons and several shots to the chest from Megatron in his ' gun ' mode, wielded by Starscream.
Despite his inability, Cao Shuang and his brothers, Cao Xi and Cao Xun wielded great power in Cao Wei, and he was often at conflict with Sima Yi, who had greater influence and support.
Despite and panorama
Despite the success of Barker's first panorama in Leicester Square, it was neither his first attempt at the craft nor his first exhibition.
Despite and detached
Despite his lengthy stay abroad, Bismarck was not entirely detached from German domestic affairs.
Despite determined resistance from the House of Lords, this Bill gave more parliamentary power to the liberals, while reducing the political force of the working class, leaving them detached from the main body of middle class support on which they had relied.
Despite the fact that contributors to the artscene can be found worldwide, the scene continues to remain detached from mainstream bbs and internet culture.
" Despite appearing detached to members of AVALANCHE, Cloud does display moments of camaraderie, some depending on the player's choices.
Despite the improvement in diver safety provided by the more secure attachment of the breathing apparatus to the diver's face, some models of full face mask can fail catastrophically if the faceplate is broken or detached from the skirt, as there is then no way to breathe from the mask.
Despite its relatively short life, Spy was among the most widely acclaimed and discussed of American magazines of its time, chiefly for its detached and ironic tone, its use of quasi-scientific charts and tables to convey information, and its elaborate, classically influenced typography and layout.
Despite its name, it is not currently in Wales, but was historically a detached parish ( exclave ) of the county of Monmouthshire.
Despite its realistic, detached style, the film evokes the dramatic Western genre in several ways.
Despite the constant ill will between the Enoshima and Tsujikou students, Nakajo remains detached from most of the fighting until later volumes, and at the end of the story he challenges Eikichi to a one on one fight.
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Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.
Despite its setting in the year 2071, Cowboy Bebop inhabits an " organic, lived in, and believable " universe that " feels familiar to modern audiences " due to its anachronistic setting.
Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching # 2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Top 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.
Despite low record sales, Jennings attracted large audiences in live appearances.
Despite Gilbert's disclaimer, audiences, critics and even the Prime Minister identified Sir Joseph Porter with W. H. Smith ( a politician who had recently been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty despite having neither military nor nautical experience ).
Despite the disdain audiences held for musicals in 1931, it proved a successful film.
Despite not having the looks for a romantic lead, he impressed audiences with his talent and played classical roles in two plays by Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters.
Despite the extensive cuts, the film was still negatively received by audiences, and remained an object of extreme controversy.
Despite the initial fanfare, Strauss found his early years as a composer difficult, but he soon won over audiences after accepting commissions to perform away from home.
Despite steadily working in pictures, Lucy's movie career never advanced to the level of a headlining feature-film actress ; nevertheless she remained popular with movie audiences.
Despite the fact that many performances are held within the circle of a small art-world group, RoseLee Goldberg notes, in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present that " performance has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture.
Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, the album finally broke Bad Religion into mainstream audiences and got their highest U. S. chart position to date, debuting at No. 14 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, with " American Jesus " and " Struck a Nerve " in particular becoming major rock radio hits at their time.
Despite initial criticism for its action violence targeted to child audiences, the franchise has continued, and the show consists of 19 television seasons of 16 different series and two theatrical films.
Despite its unlikely subject matter for a comedy, the show was a favourite with audiences.
Despite these reservations, the film was screened at the festival and won both the Italian Critics Award and the Golden Lion award — introducing western audiences, including western directors, more noticeably to both Kurosawa's films and techniques, such as shooting directly into the sun and using mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the actor's faces.
Despite the elements of ridicule contained in blackface performance, mid-19th century white audiences by and large, believed the songs and dances to be authentically black.
Despite changing technology, audiences and formats, the station has maintained a presence on the air for eight decades.
Despite the chilly reception by audiences of 1949, the Davis nonet has been judged by history as one of the most influential groups in jazz history, creating a sound that, despite its East Coast origins, became known as West Coast Jazz.
Despite good reviews, the show failed to attract large audiences — perhaps due to its controversial subject matter and its minstrel show format — and closed on December 12, 2010.
Despite initial critical praise and fearless performances from its leads ( notably Rhys-Meyers and McGregor, who performed all their musical numbers ), the film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences.
Despite critical acclaim and a consistently warm reception by American audiences, Due South never became a huge hit in the United States ; however, it was one of the most highly rated regular series ever broadcast by a Canadian network.
Despite a seating capacity of over 2, 700, audiences will be limited to around 800 ( the original total seating capacity of the old studio ).
Despite the bad reviews, the movie was praised by audiences, has over 9 million likes on its Facebook page, has 79 % from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and holds a score of 7. 1 on the Internet Movie Database.
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