Despite the industrial revolution slowly making weavers obsolete, McGonagall appeared to prosper, as there was still need for skilled workers to perform tasks of great complexity.

Despite her disability she graduated from Brighton University, mothered a healthy son, and established a life as a skilled artist.

Despite having the largest concentration of Allied army forces, Bradley faced difficulties in prosecuting a successful broad-front offensive in difficult country with a skilled enemy.

Despite better weapons and skilled commanders, Serbia lost the war.

Despite a superficial rawness, the style is still heard in skilled jazz players like Arnett Cobb, who also became famous for playing " Flying Home " with Hampton, as well as Sonny Rollins, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis and Jimmy Forrest.

Despite these faults, Smart is also resourceful, skilled in hand-to-hand combat, a proficient marksman, and incredibly lucky.

Despite a skilled local workforce, for many years South Tyneside had the highest unemployment rate in mainland Britain, although between December 2002 and December 2008 unemployment in South Shields fell by 17. 8 %, and that of South Tyneside by 17. 7 %, the best performance in the North East region over that time period.

Despite new NHL rules set in place after the lockout that sought to allow skilled players such as Näslund and his linemates to thrive, all three members of the Canucks ' top line saw decreased offensive production in 2005 – 06.

Despite immediate, skilled, and energetic efforts by the doctors and nurses to revive him, Daniel is pronounced brain-dead.

Despite spending most of her time behind a desk, Rendozzo is quite skilled with firearms and joined Grifter in an attempt to rescue Zealot, even taking a number of her henchmen along with her.

Despite this, skilled Green Lanterns like Jordan, Sinestro's most hated enemy, always found ways to defeat him.

Despite her role as comic relief for most of the series, she is quite skilled as a warrior, with an enchanted blade ( which unfortunately broke when Raenef defended himself ), replaced with a handmade wooden sword that she is able to use almost as well because of her abilities as a Swordsmaster.

Despite their many neurologic impairments, most individuals with A-T are very socially aware and socially skilled, and thus benefit from sustained peer relationships developed at school.

Despite being a full-blooded Layan, Kara is not skilled in the use of techniques.

Despite his debauchery and laziness, he is a skilled doctor and is highly respected by the citizens of Foothill Forest.

Despite being advanced technology in the year it was made, over 30 years before Pong, the game took the form of a relatively small box and was able to regularly win games even against highly skilled players of the game.

Despite the national policy of promoting maternal health through promoting informed choice, service accessibility and improved quality of care through the national Safe Motherhood Programme ( SMP ), it remains a challenge to the Ugandan government as to how it would achieve its 2015 Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality rates and 100 % births attended to by skilled health personnel.

Despite his toughness, Matula is a skilled cook and has a great deal of charm with women.

Despite the big budget disaster Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja in 1993, Sridevi continued to remain an in-demand star and delivered a skilled performance in Mahesh Bhatt's Gumrah.

Despite his lack of formal education, Sadler read many books about history as a child and became a skilled public speaker at a young age.

Despite being a skilled skater, Scapinello never made it into professional hockey, and had stopped playing by the age of 21.

Despite being quite a skilled driver, Luke rarely ever drove The General Lee ; he usually preferred to ride shotgun because the General Lee had too much Horse power, which was why Bo drove the General Lee in almost every episode.

Despite this, professional and skilled labour is fast disappearing from the country in a similar manner to East Germany before the Berlin Wall in an ironic reversal of the immigration controversies of the mid-to late 1970s in the UK.

Despite the talents involved, it only lasted from 1915 to 1917, after which its separate producers took their films to Paramount for distribution.

Despite his preparations and intentions to cow the Jews, Diodotus was entirely unsuccessful, and left the region under the rule of Jonathan's brother Simon, with little gain beyond a minor tribute of 100 talents.

Despite such all-star talents on staff, Life had passed its prime, and was sliding toward financial ruin.

Despite moving among high society, the family and their friends, condescend to Julien for being an uncouth plebeian — his intellectual talents notwithstanding.

Despite the burgeoning demand for his talents, however, Struzan was still only earning $ 150 to $ 250 per album cover.

Despite the country's ability to produce outstanding football talents, DBU only had ambition ( or economy ) to let the national team play friendly matches and the regional tournament Nordic Championship, during the time from October 1920 until June 1948.

Despite being nasty, Nanette does hold many talents, such as spending the entire episode " Don't Overdue It " balancing a book on her head ( and staining it with hair gel ) and writing a " three act Greek tragedy " in the episode " Ancient Greeks " and casting all of her classmates in " the lesser roles " such as Jimmy Jamal as Zeus, Johnny Abatti as an eagle, Gina Lash as Dionysus, Gordy Rhinehart as Hercules, and Angela with a multitude of roles because she was disgusted by Angela's acting performance.

Despite his intelligence, his talents were not discovered by Later Zhao officials.

Despite early-season losses and ensuing criticism in 2006 – 07, including a 3 – 0 loss at home to Nuremberg, Veh managed to turn the collection of new players like Mexicans Pável Pardo, and Ricardo Osorio, and Brazilian Antônio da Silva and fresh local talents, including Mario Gómez, Serdar Tasci and Sami Khedira, into a strong contender that led the league on 12 November 2006 for the first time in two years.

Despite being " Made in Chorlton-cum-Hardy " ( Lancashire ) he has a strong Yorkshire accent, although this is probably due to the voice talents of Joe Lynch more than any planning by Cosgrove Hall.

Despite his economic status, Rydberg was recognized for his talents.

Despite the apparent talents, or popularity at court, which led to his fairly rapid rise, Rochfort is probably best known ( even notorious ) for the treatment of his young wife Mary, whom he married in 1736 when he was 28 and she 16.

Despite his prodigious arcane talents, Camber repeatedly expresses his frustration that he was not born a Healer.

Despite his talents as a human experience engineer, he delivers subtly flawed proposals to them in order to undermine them and enable his own tribe to get a coveted contract.

Despite being depicted as being a lazy mongrel, he expresses many talents when properly motivated.

Despite his obvious talents, his social position allowed him to rise no higher than sergeant.

Despite winning the contest, Angham recalls how her father was not pleased with her performance and that his negative attitude was the major force that propelled her in a battle between her talents and her inner self to come up with better songs.

Despite teething troubles which saw the power units and gearboxes reach what many observers claimed to be an unacceptably high level of unreliability, Mecachrome has been an integral and vital part of the success of the GP2 Series, providing the power which has displayed the emerging talents of F1 drivers Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen, Lewis Hamilton and Timo Glock.

Despite suffering from a terminal heart condition, he fought the scheme with all his considerable talents, dying shortly before Wolseley had achieved his ends.

Despite his vocal talents, Swofford was unable to sustain further success on the charts, and in 1983, People magazine ran a feature article on Swofford, describing him as a happily married father who kept his distance from the music industry, selling real estate.

Writing of her storyline with Wilfred, Gaughan said that " Despite the comedic talents of Braid, Sutton and Richie, any hints towards Cockney family comedy were eschewed in favour of Albert Square's preponderance of gloom.

Despite early disciplinary problems at The Dell, Ruddock's talents as a confident, left-footed defender earned him England Under-21 honours.

Despite her friend's best efforts ( she spoke several languages and had musical talents ) she was unable to find work.

Despite his individual talents, the Bulls lacked the talent and, physical and mental toughness to win ; Detroit won in 5.