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Despite and promising
Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.
Despite its promising start, Fresh Horses plateaued quickly, topping out at quadruple platinum.
Despite intensive research and many promising leads, an explanation has so far eluded scientists.
Despite these promising observations, randomized clinical trials have consistently shown lack of benefit to the role of vitamin E supplements in heart disease.
Despite its promising appearance and engineering novelty the Pipit did not fly as well as expected, the elevator being criticised as heavy while the rudder was weak and the type was longitudinally unstable.
Despite this incident and a lack of food, Grenville decided to leave Ralph Lane and 107 men to establish the colony at the north end of Roanoke Island, promising to return in April 1586 with more men and fresh supplies.
Despite signing up some promising talent ( notably Arthur Hodgson and the Kneecaps and the ' French Beach Boys ,' Les Garçons de la Plage ), poor financial management ( mainly on the part of Stig O ' Hara's financial planner, Ron Decline ) finally led to the label's ultimate failure.
Despite Moline's small size, Deere saw several promising elements there: Moline's dam and coal deposits would provide a good source of power ; Moline was near the other well-established towns of Stephenson ( later renamed Rock Island ) in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa ; and Moline's access to the river would make shipping goods cost-efficient.
Despite the Prussians ’ reluctance, Paul decided to move ahead with the war, promising 60, 000 men to support Austria in Italy and 45, 000 men to help England in North Germany and the Netherlands.
Despite this, Railtrack made what would prove to be the fatal mistake of not properly assessing the technical viability and cost of implementing moving block prior to promising the speed increase to Virgin and the government.
Despite promising beginning, Władysław failed to secure enough funds for the fleet creation ; the ships were gone – sunk, or stolen – by the 1640s.
Despite its promising start, however, ratings for Millennium after the pilot remained consistently low, and it was cancelled after three seasons.
Despite a promising young roster, the Stars were more or less an afterthought in a market whose first choices were the Los Angeles Lakers and UCLA Bruins ; they only averaged 2, 500 fans per game.
Despite a promising start to the following season, he found it tiring to travel the 100 + miles from his Berkshire home to the Midlands on an almost daily basis, and in December 1997 moved to Division One rivals Queens Park Rangers.
Despite the introduction of the intermediate 7. 9mm Kurz cartridge promoted by the Heer ( developed for the promising MP 43 assault rifle ), the Luftwaffe favored the long-range potential of the standard 7. 92 × 57mm Mauser rifle round and this caliber was one of the main design prerequisites.
Despite his promising debut, the young Kuniyoshi failed to produce many works between 1818 and 1827, probably due to a lack of commissions from publishers, and the competition of other artists within the Utagawa School ( Utagawa-ryū ).
Despite a promising early start, a run of bad results over the winter period saw the club slip down the table, and in March 2004 Brian Talbot left the club after seven years as manager.
Despite promising performances during the first half of the 1977 / 78 season, Harry Griffiths resigned as Swansea City's manager in February 1978, doubting his own ability to take the club any further.
Despite the glut of coffee producers in the market today, coffee production in Peru is still promising.
Despite only basing their promotion on the former company, XWA inherited the physical British Heavyweight and Flyweight Championship belts from FWA and continued to use them, promising to also resurrect the FWA Tag Team Championship, though they never would.
Despite new sponsorship from Trust computers and the addition of " Quick " Nick Heidfeld and a promising young rookie in Timo Glock for 2004, Jordan was in serious trouble.
Despite this incident and the lack of food, Grenville decided to leave Ralph Lane and 107 men to establish the colony on the north end of Roanoke Island, promising to return in April 1586 with more men and fresh supplies.
Despite its promising beginnings this front-engined car was soon made obsolete by mid-engined cars.
Despite the promising 2007 World Cup, Scotland opened their 2008 Six Nations campaign losing 27 – 6 to France at home.

Despite and off-season
Despite some off-season legal issues, the Oilers were again the top team in the NHL during the 1985 – 86 regular season, with 56 wins and 119 points.
Despite the off-season controversy, the 2005 season turned out to be another All-Star year for Rodríguez.
Despite rumors he might be traded in the off-season, the Pirates elected to keep Castillo.
Despite strenuous denials from Ron Dennis stories continued to circulate during the 2004 / 2005 off-season that Newey's departure was imminent.
Despite being unhappy with the franchise tag, Suggs reported to off-season mini-camps to practice with the team.
Despite having been mostly injury free throughout the year, off-season surgery forced him to miss the Tri-Nations for the Kiwis for the second year running.

Despite and moves
Despite these moves, the wary Filippo Maria never ceased to be distrustful of Sforza.
Despite these moves toward independence, economic realities seemed to work against secession from the Soviet Union In a referendum on the preservation of the USSR, in March 1991, 88. 7 % of the voters approved a proposal to remain part of the union as a " renewed federation.
Despite these frequent moves he wrote all his major work during his 20-plus years in the Netherlands, where he managed to revolutionize mathematics and philosophy.
Despite these moves, the Rockies still posted the worst record in the NHL.
Despite these moves, the Oilers were unable to qualify for the playoffs for the sixth straight season, finishing fourteenth in the Western Conference.
Despite the moves, Daniel gets up each time.
Despite the embarrassing misconceptions, Oscar forms a close bond with Amy as they continue to spend time together-to the extent that Amy moves in with him after she is kicked out of her apartment-Amy sharing various personal stories with Oscar.
Despite the misunderstanding, Lum falls in love with Ataru and moves into his house.
Despite its satirical appearance, silat pulut actually enables students to learn moves and their applications without having to be taught set techniques.
: Despite these moves towards decentralization, these improved practices and government promises are not very evident.
Despite Catholic Spain's moves toward diplomacy with England, Catesby still harboured hopes of foreign support and a peaceful solution.
Despite these laws, pop singers like Inul Daratista who is known for her hip swaying moves and Agnes Monica who features in sexy attire, still continue exposing their navels but undergo some restrictions during advertising.
Despite the temporary setback, the moves against the ever-weakening Roman masters resulted in Emperor Julian buying peace in 358 by handing over Toxandria to the Salians who then became Roman allies and provided troops for the imperial army.
Despite such a large grid, games are frequently over before both sides have each made 25 moves.
Despite tentative moves to break up the KoB the violence escalated.
Despite being generally shown as dimwitted and oblivious, when its headache gets bad enough, it has been shown to use phenomenally powerful Psychic-type moves which far exceed its perceived potential.
Despite these and other moves by Nintendo, almost every other contemporary system used the new CD-ROM technology ( the Nintendo 64 was the last major home video game console to use cartridges ).
Despite his skill, X was unable to predict Wolverine's moves.
Despite this, he moves to Palestine to settle, becomes good friends with Ben Canaan and acts as a very unofficial military advisor.
# Adagio ( C minor ) – Despite being marked Adagio the second movement, in reality, moves along at quite a reasonable speed.
Despite being able to freely move on a 3D axis in the Ultimate version of DOA2 however, most moves cannot be sidestepped as in other 3D fighters, as well as in DOA3.
Despite losing his flaming techniques, he was given brutal moves using his nails to emphasize the character's ferociousness.
Despite that, using the technique of singular extensions it could also follow lines of forced moves that reach even further, which is how it once found a checkmate in 37 moves.

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