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 only having been seen three times, he is usually mentioned by Weebl ( who he apparently knows ) to annoy / ridicule Bob, as seen in " Sweet ".

Despite this ridicule, Coates went on to tour the British Isles.

Despite efforts to impress the family, Greg's inadvertent actions make him an easy target for ridicule and anger: He accidentally breaks Pam's sister's nose during a volleyball mishap ; uses a malfunctioning toilet that floods the Byrnes ' back yard with sewage ; sets the wedding altar on fire and inadvertently leads Jack to think he is a marijuana user.

Despite its diameter of 0. 4 light-years, Barnard 68 only has twice the mass of the Sun, making it both very diffuse and very cold-about 16 degrees Kelvin.

Despite the closure of the newspaper, the New York Sun website renewed activity on April 28, 2009, prompting some observers to consider the possible implications.

Despite its enlarged girth, this star is still spinning with a slightly faster equatorial azimuthal velocity than the Sun, having a projected rotational velocity of 3. 44 km s < sup >− 1 </ sup >.

Despite playing in the 1996 Rose Bowl, 1997 Citrus Bowl, 2000 Alamo Bowl, 2003 Motor City Bowl, 2005 Sun Bowl, 2009 Alamo Bowl, 2010 Outback Bowl, 2011 TicketCity Bowl, and 2011 Texas Bowl, the last bowl game Northwestern won was the 1949 Rose Bowl.

Despite making essential acquisitions and creating depth in the roster, the Sun was projected to finish towards the end of the Eastern Conference standings.

Despite the team's pre-draft banter, the Sun used the ninth overall pick to gamble on raw talent in Astan Dabo, an unheralded prospect from Mali.

Despite petitions from his subjects and his own mother, Sun Ce ordered Gan Ji's execution.

Despite his previous identity as a great marshal who is in charge of 80, 000 heavenly warriors, he always claims Sun Wukong as “ brother ” with awe and respect while Sun has conflicts with him and often makes fun of him all the way.

Despite the efforts from Sun Quan, Lü Meng died at the age of 41.

Despite professing the anti-Qing cause, the Guangfuhui was highly critical of Sun Yat-sen. One of the most famous female revolutionaries was Qiu Jin, who fought for women's rights and was also from Guangfuhui.

Despite the general target of the uprisings to be the Manchus, Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren and Huang Xing unanimously advocated racial integration to be carried out from the mainland to the frontiers.

Despite resistance from many in Symbolics, Macsyma was released for DEC VAX computers and Sun workstations using Berkeley's Franz Lisp in the early to mid 80s.

Despite appearing in such films as A Passage to India ( 1984 ) and Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ), he never made a name for himself as a film star, but has continued in a succession of starring roles on television.

Despite reports of disillusionment by some people who were not healed, many thousands had been, Qarase told the Fiji Sun, and at any rate, the healings were " only a small part " of Hinn's message.

Despite its conservatism, the Sun has had both a prominent Liberal columnist, Sheila Copps and a left-wing columnist Sid Ryan.

Despite some protests, the historic stadium had been earmarked for demolition when the University of Miami announced that they were moving out of the Orange Bowl after the 2007 season to begin play at Sun Life Stadium in 2008 in a 25-year deal.

Despite initial success, Sun was able to capitalize on the internal conflict between Hu and Lü, and had them defeated at Yangren.

Despite so, Sun Quan still felt that Lu Su's two major contributions outshone this imperfection.

Despite leading them to a 103-49 record, the Flamigos finished the season one game behind his former team, the Sun Sox.

Despite working mainly for the cinema in the 1960s, he continued to write plays, including Curtmantle for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962, and A Yard of Sun – the fourth in his seasonal quartet – at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1970.

Despite Li commanding the rebel army, Sun Yat-sen of the Revolutionary Alliance became the first provisional president in Nanjing on January 1, 1912.

Despite an endorsement from the right-wing Toronto Sun tabloid newspaper ( which usually supports Tory candidates-and which his opponent was a former employee of ), he came within 3, 000 votes of losing to incumbent Tory MPP Jim Brown.

Despite his previous veiled criticisms of Chiang, Sun remained the favored choice of Chiang, but Li ( one of Chiang's rivals in the Kuomintang ) won the election.

The Herald Sun originally reported that McManus had confirmed that his show would not return until later in 2010 Despite not appearing on a list of shows at Ten's 2010 launch event, it was rumoured that Rove would return in 2010 with a new format, similar to Hey Hey It's Saturday, which rated over two million viewers for its two reunion shows.

Despite his victory over Lü, who was able to regroup his forces, Cao Xiu was defeated by Wu reinforcements sent by Xu Sheng and Quan Cong.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Despite Giffen's warning, Palfrey still had plans for freeing his slaves in Louisiana.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.

Despite progress since the Soviet era, the unemployment rate still hovers near 30 % and there remains a huge gulf between actual and potential Gross Domestic Product.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

Despite this, Lewis argued, those who accept evolutionary naturalism still act as if objective moral truths exist, lead Lewis to reject it as impractical.

Despite the strong start, the team played poorly in May and June and entered the All Star break at 47 – 48, still leading the NL West.

Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite this growth, the military still does not receive sufficient funds for modernization.

Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.

Despite the councils of Étampes, Wurzburg, Clermont, and Rheims all supporting Innocent, there were still large portions of the Christian world supporting Anacletus.

Despite the decline of the British Empire, the Army was still deployed around the world, fighting wars in Aden, Indonesia, Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya.

Despite the growth of Bayesian research, most undergraduate teaching is still based on frequentist statistics.

Despite the amount of research, there is still doubt about the internal relationship of the languages of Austro-Asiatic.

Despite the legal status of the Dublin Region, the term " County Dublin " is still in common usage.

Despite rejecting these terms, Constantius still tried to avert war with the Sassanid Empire by sending two embassies to Shapur II.

Despite the improved guns, production of the Panzer III was ended in 1943, as the tank still could not match the T-34, and was replaced by the Panzer IV and Panther tanks.

Despite some claims that shotgun sequencing was in some ways less accurate than the clone-by-clone method chosen by the Human Genome Project, the technique became widely accepted by the scientific community and is still the de facto standard used today.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite these advances in Cognitive psychology, there is still much to be discovered in terms of the operating mechanisms of declarative memory.