Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

Despite the reluctance to legally recognise the Premiership, ambivalence toward it waned in the 1780s.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

Despite Washington's reluctance, Erhard envisaged offering Nikita Khrushchev, the leader in Moscow, massive economic aid in exchange for more political liberty in East Germany and eventually for reunification.

Despite the smashing victory that followed, Longstreet's performance at the battle was criticized by postbellum advocates of the Lost Cause, claiming that his slowness, reluctance to attack, and disobedience to Gen. Lee were a harbinger of his controversial performance to come on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Despite some reluctance on the part of the Athenian leaders, Athens finally accepts Philip II's entry into the Council of the League.

Despite the owner's reluctance to let her perform, McDaniel was eventually allowed to take the stage and became a regular.

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 his initial reluctance to take part in the competition, Ataru becomes extremely interested in the game when he meets Lum.

Despite his initial reluctance, like several former gospel singers Aretha Franklin, and Wilson Pickett, Burke was " molded into a more secular direction when he signed with Atlantic in the ' 60s ," and became one of " the " backsliders ," artists who " preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", after deciding eventually that " secular music was not the anithesis of the church but, rather, ' a new avenue, a new dimension to spread the gospel.

Despite Jumblatt's initial reluctance to engage in paramilitarism, it built a powerful private army, which proved to be one of the strongest in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990.

Despite initial reluctance, the Safavid Empire of Persia very rapidly acquired the art of making and using handguns.

Despite the reluctance of English officials to issue a patent to Colt, no fault could be found with the gun and he was issued his first patent ( Number 6909 ).

Despite these actions, which directly contradicted Sihanouk's policy of partial tolerance of North Vietnamese activity, it appears that Lon Nol himself had great personal reluctance to depose the Head of State: he initially may merely have wanted Sihanouk to apply more pressure to the North Vietnamese.

Despite their numerical advantage and the wide dispersal of British forces against an invasion attempt, the Americans, who were stationed in Lewiston, New York, were unable to get the bulk of their invasion force across the Niagara River due to the work of British artillery and reluctance on the part of the undertrained and inexperienced American militia.

Despite Carr's reluctance, the Vancouver Art Gallery, a major curator of Carr's work, records Carr in this period as abandoning the documentary impulse and starting to concentrate instead on capturing the emotional and mythological content embedded in the totemic carvings, which she did by jettisoning her painterly and practiced Post-Impressionist style in favour of creating highly stylized and abstracted geometric forms.

Despite her parents ' reluctance, the two were married on November 11, 1856, with Patrick Cleburne serving as best man.

Despite his reluctance, Scheider pledged to do the best job that he could, wanting to make Brody believable.

Despite showing initial reluctance, Forsythe began an acting career at the suggestion of his father.

Despite initial reluctance to concede men, John of Gaunt finally agreed to levy troops to reinforce the Portuguese army.

Despite Ponting's reluctance to weigh into the debate, Tasmanian coach Greg Shipperd thought he could handle the experience.

Despite not being a selector, Ponting was heavily criticised for Australia not playing Hauritz and his apparent reluctance to put faith in his spinners.

Despite the reluctance of the institution's governing board, CAC began opening the door to liberal arts in 1885, and by Ingersoll's last year at CAC the college had instituted a " Ladies Course " that offered junior and senior women classes in drawing, stenography and typewriting, foreign languages, landscape gardening and psychology.

Despite this, The Guardian newspaper described him as " the most underrated lyricist in pop today ", and DJ John Peel said he could " listen to Cathal Coughlan sing the phone book ".

A resurgence of dream pop in the independent music scene occurred in 2008, with the relatively successful indie acts of Silversun Pickups, Beach House, Au Revoir Simone, Tame Impala, Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Bat for Lashes, The Radio Dept., High Places, Lykke Li, Chairlift, Anomie Belle, Grimes, School of Seven Bells, Foxes in Fiction, Rem's Floating Chandelier The xx, Ellie Goulding, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Marissa Nadler, Holly Miranda, iamamiwhoami, Wild Beasts, and An Horse.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

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 the challenges of the Great Depression, the Compton reforms " renewed confidence in the ability of the Institute to develop leadership in science as well as in engineering.

Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally driven off at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles ' paternal grandfather.

Despite the company's indisputable leadership in television technology, David Sarnoff in 1955 commented, " Television will never be a medium of entertainment ".

Despite his new doubts about Taft's leadership abilities, Roosevelt still was friendly towards him and was in favor of his re-election.

Despite the moderate tone of Peng's letter, Mao took it as a personal attack against his leadership.

Despite the justification of Venetian embroilment in the terraferma that was offered in Foscari's funeral oration, delivered by the humanist senator and historian Bernardo Giustiniani, and some encouraging notable victories, the war was extremely costly to Venice, whose real source of wealth and power was at sea, and to her ally Florence ; they were eventually overcome by the forces of Milan under the leadership of Francesco Sforza.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Despite having arguments with Gandhi, Patel respected his instincts and leadership.

Despite the challenge of its size, complexity, and advanced CMOS process, the first tape-out version of the processor was able to be shipped, and it had leadership floating point performance at the time it was announced.

Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976.

Despite Nixon's growing political difficulties and an increasingly hostile working relationship with the legislature over Vietnam, Thiệu, and most of the Saigon leadership, remained optimistic about ongoing aid.

Despite unprecedented, strong, and consistent economic growth under his leadership, Toledo dealt with much labor unrest during his presidency as workers demanded higher wages and the fulfillment of campaign promises.

Despite being the official leader of the party, the state, and the army, Hua was unable to defeat a leadership challenge by Deng Xiaoping.

Despite his formal leadership role, however, his only actual title was Colonial Secretary, a position comparable to the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Despite the name change, most former Progressive supporters continued to support the Liberal Party or the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and Bracken's leadership of the Conservative Party came to an end in 1948.

Despite these assertions, however, it is largely recognized and accepted by practitioners and researchers that leadership is important, and research supports the notion that leaders do contribute to key organizational outcomes ( Day & Lord, 1988 ; Kaiser, Hogan, & Craig, 2008 ).

Despite popular belief, the use of manipulation, coercion, and domination to influence others is not a requirement for leadership.

Despite several changes in leadership, the orchestra continued to perform throughout World War II.

Despite an air of defeatism among the leadership, the professional French troops and New French militia defenders focused preparations for the British attacks on the Beauport Shore.

Despite initially supporting Michael Heseltine in the November 1990 Conservative Party leadership tussle, Hamilton strongly encouraged Thatcher to persist.

Despite his dispatch box successes ( Smith was always more effective in the House of Commons than on platforms or at Prime Minister's Questions, though he began to improve at the latter during the final months of his life ), Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were, under Smith's leadership, restless and anxious in private that the party had adopted a " One more heave " approach and had become overly cautious in tackling the legacy of " tax and spend ".