Despite his seniority in rank, Johnston lacked familiarity with the terrain and ceded tactical planning of the impending battle to Beauregard as a professional courtesy.

Despite that slight variation in the election date, all the members elected to the First Parliament were considered to have had equal seniority.

Despite the different election dates, all the members elected to that First Parliament were considered to have had equal seniority.

Despite Lowery's seniority, his involvement in the House banking scandal hurt him.

Despite the seniority, he is the only person in the FAF to even befriend Fukai and help him deal the with stress of battle.

Despite his complaints that the house was too big (" big enough for two emperors, one pope, and the grand lama in the bargain "), Jefferson considered how the White House might be added to.

Despite organizational changes and while additional techniques were added, the Transcendental Meditation technique itself remained relatively unchanged.

Despite the decline of European settlement and the loss of contact, Denmark – Norway continued to maintain its claim to lordship of Greenland: in the 1660s, a polar bear was added to the royal coat of arms.

Despite the added penalties, citizens and shippers openly ignored the embargo.

Despite these arguments, " Mong " was not added to the bill.

Despite its name, both the shrine and the cult originally belonged to Helen ; Menelaus was added later as her husband.

Despite those particular scenes being shot at strategic angles, a censored version was released with a stream of computer-generated flowers added in to cover up more.

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 being named for Gen. John Stark and originally being known and appearing on maps as Stark County when initially created and organized, an e was added to the county's name fairly early in its history.

Despite motte-and-bailey and ringworks being common designs amongst Norman castles, each fortification was slightly different – some castles were designed with two baileys attached to a single motte, and some ringworks were built with additional towers added on ; yet other castles were built as ringworks and later converted to motte-and-bailey structures.

Despite her lack of a driving licence, she attracted controversy when she told local government leaders to give added emphasis to motor vehicle access in urban areas, as " most pedestrians are walking to or from their cars.

Despite being robbed of some quickness and athleticism, he still managed to score 27. 0 points per game, and he also added 6. 7 assists per contest, his highest average as a member of the Jazz.

Despite the added features, APS never really caught on with professional photographers because of the significantly smaller film area ( 56 % of 135 film ).

Despite multiple uses of profanity, the Parental Advisory sticker was never added.

Despite the innovative packaging, added features and superior performance, this $ 3, 995 product was stillborn and never had a chance to succeed due to the failure of Otrona shortly after its release.

Despite the added firepower, the Wings saw some improvement, going 8-8 in 2006 but missing the postseason on tiebreakers.

Despite this, the name of each winning club is still added to the base of the original Dewar Cup.

Despite their similarities to SDRE, Mineral emerged at the same time as that group and added their own less intense, more brooding flavor to the then-emerging " Midwest " sound.

Despite the efforts of O ' Brien, who added Newsy Lalonde from the Canadiens to Renfrew, the first championship went to the Wanderers, taking over the Stanley Cup and successfully defending it against Edmonton.

Despite already being the target of an intensive Gestapo search, she exposed herself to the added danger of helping the Jews.

Despite the lack of trees on supermoto courses, ' bark busters ' ( hand guards ) are frequently added to supermoto bikes due the extreme cornering angles achieved by riders.

Despite the financial uncertainties of the time, a traveling secretary was added to the fraternity payroll.

Despite the abandonment of development of VirtualDubMod, some of its features can be added to VirtualDub through input plugins and ACM codecs provided by users on VirtualDub forums.

Despite having sold a short story and several articles under his real name, he initially submitted his first novel under a pseudonym ; it was the editor of that novel, Lester Del Rey, who first demanded he use his real name and then added the hyphen to create the name Lawrence Watt-Evans.

Despite adopting this style, and that the Vandals maintained their sea-power and their hold on the islands of the western Mediterranean Sea, Huneric did not have the prestige that his father Genseric had enjoyed with other states.

Despite Euler's immense contribution to the Academy's prestige, he was eventually forced to leave Berlin.

Despite the prestige associated with its name, Café Josty closed in 1930.

Despite a brief revival immediately after independence, the prestige of Quechua decreased sharply and it gradually became restricted to rural areas.

Despite his great power and prestige, the Dagda is sometimes depicted as oafish and crude, even comical, wearing a short, rough tunic that barely covers his rump, dragging his great penis on the ground.

Despite this royal prestige, Champagne houses also portrayed Champagne as a luxury enjoyable by anyone, for any occasion.

Despite low reliability and prestige of those cars, they have shown an unbeaten accessibility and popularity among Soviets, becoming the " car for pensioners and intellectuals ".

Despite insistence that it isn't a race, PBP offers trophies and prestige to the first finishers.

Despite the dramatic reduction in North Atlantic passengers caused by the shipping depression beginning in 1929, the Germans, Italians and the French commissioned new " ships of state " prestige liners.

Despite the successes against the Simba rebels, Tshombe's prestige was damaged by the use of white mercenaries and western forces, lost the support of Kasa-Vubu and was dismissed from prime minister in October 1965.

Despite the prestige connected with the title of Governor-General, Bencoolen was a colonial backwater whose only real export was pepper and only the murder of a previous Resident, Thomas Parr, gained it any attention back home in Britain.

Despite the unbounded prestige of ancient Greece amongst the educated elite of Europe, there was little to no direct knowledge of that civilization before the middle of the 18th century.

Despite the school's low prestige, Mitsuda received solid instruction from his professors, most of them practicing musicians who would take Mitsuda to gigs with them to help carry and set up equipment.

Despite the fact that prestige is often thought of as a separate factor, it is, in fact, merely a subset of power as a factor.

Despite the scepticism of many observers, the games were a great success and brought renewed international prestige ( and tourism revenue ) to Athens.

Despite the prestige and acclaim of Nebbiolo based wine, it is far from being the most widely grown grape in Piedmont.

Despite Mahan's prestige, the college was long met with skepticism by navy officers accustomed to conducting all education aboard ship.

" Despite its prestige, it has not been a strong springboard to higher political office ; Gray Davis was the only Democrat in state history and the only state politician in the last eight decades to be elected governor after holding the post.

Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign terms, it swept Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century, becoming Lomber in Germany, Lumbur in Austria and Ombre in England, occupying a position of prestige similar to contract bridge today.

Despite the prestige attached to this post, he returned to the Supreme Court where he served as Chief Justice.

Despite many difficulties, during the 29 years of Justinian's reign, a series of events and changes took place which greatly raised the prestige of Romanian Orthodoxy in the Christian world and made him a representative figure for all of Orthodoxy.

Despite the importance of Liniers himself, and his prestige as a popular hero for his role when the British invaded, the population of Córdoba preferred to support the revolution.

( Despite the significance of this development, swords would never lose their prestige as the premier implement of war and symbol of knighthood, changing over the duration of the later Middle Ages from a broad-bladed cutting instrument with a semi-rounded tip into a narrow thrusting instrument with a sharply pointed tip, capable of penetrating any " chinks in the armor " of a fully encased opponent: see, for example, the entry for estoc ).

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