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Despite pressure from the Bernese authorities in the 16th and 17th centuries anabaptism never entirely disappeared from the Unteraargau.
Despite pressure from the government of the United States, the Chilean Congress, keeping with tradition, conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri.
Despite considerable congressional resistance, presidential and popular pressure led to a November 1993 agreement brokered by the Catholic Church between the administration and Congress.
Despite strong Italian influence, Zog refused to completely give in to Italian pressure.
Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group.
Despite this, the political situation demanded even greater pressure, and on 31 January 1917, Germany announced that its U-boats would engage in unrestricted submarine warfare beginning 1 February.
Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process.
Despite aggressive pressure by Truman's aides to avoid forcing the issue on the Convention floor, Humphrey chose to speak on behalf of the minority plank.
Despite the inspired nonviolent resistance of the Czech and Slovak population, the reformers had little hope of holding out against Soviet pressure and ultimately were forced to accede to Soviet demands, signing the Moscow protocols.
Despite German pressure, Bulgaria did not take part in the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union and actually never declared war on the Soviet Union.
Despite such setbacks, popular pressure for reform remained strong.
Despite being subjected to severe pressure and incarceration for a year at Kraków, the delegation refused to submit to the king's terms, and Giese and Councilor Georg Kleefeld were eventually released in 1570 against a ransom of 100, 000 guilders.
Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad.
Despite their neutrality, the Norwegian government went to considerable lengths to accommodate Britain, on account of both British pressure and an anti-German sentiment.
Despite the strategic predicament of the German Army, it had managed to prevent a collapse of its defenses and had survived the battle and withstood the pressure of the Russia and whilst conducting an invasion of Romania.
Despite U. S. pressure on Japan to assist America in Iraq, Japan limited their involvement in the war to financial contribution primarily because of domestic opposition to the deployment of troops.
Despite pressure from the government that she intervene to break the deadlock, Sauvé maintained that it was up to the parties to resolve it themselves through negotiation.
Despite the relative pressure disadvantage, modern rimfire magnums in. 17-caliber, 5mm, and. 22-caliber generate muzzle energy comparable to smaller centerfire cartridges.
Despite his imprisonment, and pressure from the Commission to stand down, Gotti is believed to have held on to his position as Gambino boss with his brother Peter and his son John A. Gotti Jr. relaying orders on his behalf.
Despite pressure from the Carolingians, who laid siege to Rome, his decision held.
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 pressure brought to bear by management, when confronted, Norma Rae takes a piece of cardboard, writes the word " UNION ", stands on her worktable, and slowly turns to show the sign around the room.
Despite their lack of enthusiasm for the rebellion, the British and French governments were under mounting pressure from their home public opinion to assist the Greeks.
Despite pressure from local residents, Con Ed went forward with its plan, applying to the Federal Power Commission for a license to operate such a facility.
Despite and captaincy
Despite their regular season dominance, the Islanders exited the playoffs with a loss to the New York Rangers in the semifinals, after which original team captain and star Ed Westfall-who had surrendered the captaincy to Clark Gillies the season before-retired.
Despite this, he was stripped of the captaincy when India toured England in 1979 for a four Test tour.
Despite Border's limited captaincy experience and stated indifference to taking the position, he replaced Hughes for the Third Test at Adelaide, which the Australians also lost: it was their sixth consecutive defeat to the West Indies.
Despite apologising, Mills was stripped of his captaincy for not befitting the role of a club captain.
Despite finishing 11th in 1949, in 1950 – under the captaincy of Nigel Howard – Lancashire shared the county championship with Surrey, winning 16 matches ; Roy Tattersall and Malcolm Hilton claimed nearly 300 wickets between them.
Despite rumors of a possible European transfer following the Wizards ' disappointing 2006 season, Conrad renewed his contract with the Wizards beginning the 2007 season, and new head coach Curt Onalfo rewarded him the club captaincy.
Despite the disagreement as to whether Craig was deserving of the captaincy, the team proceeded smoothly without infighting.
Despite Lockyer's lack of experience in the halves, he successfully gained the five-eighth position for, and retained the captaincy of both the Queensland and Australian sides.
Despite the disagreement as to whether Craig was deserving of the captaincy, the team proceeded smoothly without infighting.
Despite Collins's rank Field Marshal Birdwood, the former commander of the Australian Corps, asked him to take over the captaincy for the remainder of the tour.
Despite Clarke's high hopes, he experienced a poor run of form in the 2008 season that led to him quitting the captaincy.
Despite achieving the club's captaincy and some positive form late in 1996, News Corporation closed the door on the Reds a year later.
Despite averaging 46. 71 on the tour, his scored only 55 runs in 5 Test innings, and his captaincy was also criticised.
Despite his move to France, the South African Rugby Union announced on 20 February 2008 that he would retain his Boks captaincy.
Despite and Bradman's
Despite scoring a century in Australia's most recent Test, Harvey was made 12th man and it appeared that he was not initially in Bradman's Test plans.
Despite and batting
Despite his health woes, he finished the year with a batting average of. 312.
Despite his powerful run-making in the County Championship Smith's batting was class a fragile and he was dropped from the England team for three years.
Despite this, the season was unsuccessful for Killebrew, whose batting average barely passed. 200 most of the year ; after a strong start, he hit below. 200 in both May and June and his average stood at. 204 with 13 home runs going into the all-star break.
Despite Heilmann ’ s third batting title, the American League MVP award went to Roger Peckinpaugh, whose batting average was almost 100 points below Heilmann ’ s, and who had 70 fewer RBIs and 40 fewer extra base hits than Heilmann.
Despite winning a fourth batting title, Heilmann still finished second in the MVP voting, this time behind Lou Gehrig.
Despite this mixed batting performance, his bowling was at its peak.
Despite Willis ' performance on the mound during those three seasons, the Boston offense could only muster a combined. 238 batting average over those seasons.
Despite not batting as well as he " would have liked ", Ponting returned to Australia with the fourth highest batting average — 48. 73.
Despite this recent run of poor scores, Ponting was promoted to the key No. 3 position in the Australian batting order at the expense of the dropped Justin Langer, while Damien Martyn took Ponting's former spot at No. 6, for the very next Test series, the 2001 Ashes tour of England.
Despite his respectable batting average, Martin was sent back to the Houston Buffaloes in January where he hit for a. 298 batting average.
Despite the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman in 1920, batting helmets were fairly uncommon in the major leagues.
Despite going 0 – 4 in that game, his finished the season batting. 407 ( 11-27 ).
Despite having a significantly similar Test batting average, Moin had a higher ODI average than Latif and scored more runs than Latif in international cricket.
Despite this newly-found batting solidity, Australia struggled in the series and drew all three Tests.
Despite solid fielding in 1904, Lowe's offensive output continued to decline as his batting average dropped to. 207, 66 points below his career average of. 273.
Despite these achievements, he is commonly held to have underachieved in international cricket, a view based on comparison of Hick's overall first-class batting average of 52. 23 vis-à-vis his Test average of 31. 32.
Despite a season-long battle with tendinitis in his shoulder which caused him to miss 23 regular season games, he finished fifth in AL batting race with. 314 and ranked eighth in on base percentage.
Despite his lack of practice, he scored hundreds in his first three matches and came top of the Surrey batting averages.
Despite being regarded as the last man picked for the tour, Woodfull headed the batting averages in the first-class matches and was third in the Tests.
Despite his height, Walcott also kept wicket for his country in his first 15 Tests, his versatility enabling to retain his position in the side despite some poor batting performances in his first few matches.
Despite having the third-worst batting average of the entire team — only ahead of Steven Foster and specialist bowler Mohamed Zubair — French was also in the squad for the 2001 ICC Trophy, where he managed to contribute even less.
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