Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite this, several of the young players showed promise.

Despite intense bombing, it could not deliver Goring's promise to destroy the British Expeditionary Force, which escaped to continue the war.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.

Despite this promise, and against protest and revolts from the nobility, Wang Mang claimed that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of his own: the Xin Dynasty ( 9 – 23 CE ).

Despite its promise of nuclear safety, SDI was described by many of its critics ( including Soviet nuclear physicist and later peace activist Andrei Sakharov ) as being even more dangerous than MAD because of these political implications.

Despite this, the promise of a Pan-Arab state including Palestine were dashed as Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan declared independence from their European rulers, while western Palestine festered in the developing Arab-Jewish conflict.

Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband, Count Alfred finds his role as a figurehead unbearable.

Despite his original promise to fight to the last man, he seemed eager to do anything to avoid a showdown in the city in order to save the capital and its inhabitants.

Despite the promise shown in the Toronto series, the Islanders had a slow start to the 2002 – 03 NHL season.

Despite her earlier promise, Jeanette recoils from him and runs to her room on hearing that he is a commoner.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband rehabilitated.

Despite his success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher the full amount of money.

Despite his promise not to tour following Tammi Terrell's death, due to pressure from fans and Motown, Gaye agreed to his first tour in four years, starting off at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on January 4, 1974.

Despite Biff's promise as an athlete in high school, he flunked senior year math and never went to college.

Despite Seddon's promise, however, there was no vote – by convincing his party colleagues that a leadership contest would split the party in two, or at least leave deep divisions, Seddon managed to secure a permanent hold on the leadership.

Despite the promise of the Kelly-led " Nobody but Me ", the record failed to chart and the brothers soon switched labels again, signing with United Artists in early 1964, where they recorded an early version of " That Lady ", titled " Who's That Lady ".

Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.

Despite this and a promise later the same day to raise base rates again to 15 percent, dealers kept selling pounds, convinced that the government would not stick with its promise.

Despite her promise, the $ 10 million never materialized.

Despite Ney ’ s promise to the King, he joined Napoleon at Auxerre, on 18 March 1815.

Despite his rookie mistakes, Dinwiddie showed promise going into the 2008 season.

Despite his earlier promise, the government announced the same day that the state would supply the necessary funds to keep the banks afloat, with Kenny stating that seeking the money from bondholders would be neither " reasonable or logical.

Despite its roots, savate is a relatively safe sport to learn.

Despite this, the drug has a long history of safe use, making it one of the more popular anti-convulsants prescribed by doctors, and a common " first line of defense " in seizure cases.

Despite the U. S. support for the mujahideen in Afghanistan, Abdel-Rahman was deeply anti-American and spoke out against it, safe in the knowledge that he was speaking Arabic and unmonitored by any law enforcement agency.

Despite its inherent association with extremely flammable substances and objects with a pointed tip traveling at high speeds, model rocketry historically has proven to be a very safe hobby and has been credited as a significant source of inspiration for children who eventually become scientists and engineers.

Despite the awkwardness of seeking safe harbor in Portugal, Columbus had no choice under the circumstances and sailed from there into the port of Lisbon.

Despite repeated appeals from the " captains of April " ( of the MFA ) on the radio warning the population to stay safe inside their homes, thousands of Portuguese took to the streets, mingling with the military insurgents and supporting them.

Despite looking safe at the end of April, a string of difficult games in May, proved too much for Port.

Despite this, Villa directors acted quickly to insist that Houllier's job as manager was safe.

Despite different emphasis in each nations qualification you can expect a qualified instructor to provide an enjoyable learning process in safe conditions.

Despite these spectacular results, problems with the production, supply, and safe handling of hydrogen peroxide prevented wide-scale implementation of Walter ’ s revolutionary engine.

Despite the apparent loss, Scrooge admits that at least he and his family are safe and that their friendship is what truly matters.

Despite the huge gains made by Democrats during the 2006 elections, Mica's seat remained safe.

Despite the reports of Nazi atrocities growing and the desperation of Jews needing a safe haven the British kept the doors of Palestine closed to Jewish Immigration.

Despite his daughters ' safe return, Quoyle's life is collapsing, and his paternal aunt, Agnis Hamm, convinces him to return to Newfoundland for a new beginning.

Despite the tactical defeat and the loss of men and equipment, the Partisan central command remained intact and the hospital safe which, over time, enabled the continuation of further operations against the enemy.

Despite its primary focus which is targeted on children, it has also provided much assistance in many other areas such as providing safe water storage containers for more than 3000 families after the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka.

Despite concerns over vandalism and so-called " yobbery "-a growing concern amongst the middle class in almost all rural areas of England-the village is generally regarded as a safe and happy place to be.

Despite being met with some scepticism, Blamey supported his officers and maintained that there was nothing to fear — Port Moresby was safe from land attack.

Despite its closeness to this area, Isla Verde is very safe thanks to the heavy police presence in the area, in fact Carolina's autonomous police department has a police station in the area.

Despite being tortured by Gravemind, Cortana has managed to keep a secret safe from the Flood ; she has the activation index of Installation 04, which she captured from 343 Guilty Spark during Halo: Combat Evolved.

Despite communist control the Order's prestige remained safe and it was even given to many people who were hardly model communists.

Despite this incident, no instructions regarding automatic crossings had ever been given to Wynn's drivers, and at Hixon the driver assumed that it was safe to cross because the police car had already done so.

Despite the pejorative nature of the term " designer baby ", a minority of bioethicists consider the notion of a designer baby, once the reprogenetic technology is shown to be safe, to be a responsible and justifiable application of parental procreative liberty.

Despite its name, this safe Labour seat takes in most of Hull's inner city-a deprived area that is currently undergoing regeneration.