Despite Brom's efforts to humiliate or punish the schoolmaster, Ichabod remains steadfast, and neither contestant seems able to gain any advantage throughout this rivalry.

Despite the fact that Davos has tried to kill her, she trusts him as he is steadfast in his loyalty to Stannis.

Despite ideological differences with the leadership, Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, unlike many other fellow party members, remained steadfast with his commitment to the party and never joined any other political group.

Despite being at one time a defender of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam later abandoned this view in favor of a position he termed " internal realism ".

Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.

Despite having the stronger army, Carinus held the weaker position.

Despite his Roman Catholic post, Garvin described his spiritual position as " pandeism ' or ' pan-en-deism ,' something very close to the Native American concept of the all-pervading Great Spirit ..."

Despite this, Jellicoe succeeded in positioning his ships to good advantage, relying on other closer cruisers for final knowledge of the German's position, but necessitating last-minute decisions.

Despite there being alternative routes across the canal nearby, General Lowe ordered repeated frontal assaults on the Mount Street position.

Despite his desire to become a minister, near the end of his studies Kepler was recommended for a position as teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz ( later the University of Graz ).

Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century ( and the first to sell for over £ 1m ), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

" Despite the LDS Church's position, the term Mormon is widely used by journalists and non-journalists to refer to adherents of Mormon fundamentalism.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

Despite these efforts the army is still not in a position to provide forces with the appropriate " level of training and discipline " without significant risk, according to Janes.

Despite its favored position, the RTC and its predecessor ( SRC ) experienced regular losses that had to be covered by government appropriations.

Despite the issuing of new currency and administrative reforms, Stephen might potentially have lived for many more years, whilst Henry's position on the continent was far from secure.

Despite their great starting field position, Dallas was unable to score a touchdown and thus had to settle for kicker Mike Clark's 14-yard field goal to give them a 3 – 0 lead.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite Somerset's disappointment that no Scottish marriage would take place, his victory at Pinkie Cleugh made his position appear unassailable.

Despite writing a letter of retraction which ran in The Washington Post, Raytheon terminated Korb's position after it continued to receive " Navy, Air Force, and Armed Services Committee objections.

Despite his retreat into Calabria, Charles remained in a strong position.

Despite the fact that Eck was thus virtually forced to abandon his position, he succeeded, through his good memory and his dialectic skill, in confusing the heavy-witted Karlstadt and carried off the nominal victory.

Despite his conquest of the latter, Maniaces was removed from his position, and the subsequent Muslim counter-offensive reconquered all the cities captured by the Byzantines.

" Despite this advice from his colleagues, Nestorius persisted in maintaining the rightness of his position.

Despite Isabella giving birth to her second son, John, in 1316, Edward's position was precarious.

Despite her love for him and his position as co-ruler, Maria Theresa never allowed her husband to decide about matters of state and often dismissed him from council meetings when they disagreed.

Despite his prominent position in musical criticism, he did not use his articles to promote his own works.

Despite her relatively low public profile, Aline Chrétien was also recognized as a powerful advisor to her husband ; Maclean's magazine once wrote, " Never mind calling her the power behind the throne — she shares the seat of power ", and columnist Allan Fotheringham later called her the second most powerful political figure in Canada, behind her husband but ahead of any elected Member of Parliament or any staffer in the PMO.

Despite the best intentions, their guarded editorial and business skills forced the company to close down soon after cancelling Pasolini ’ s project, Accattone ( 1961 ).

Despite its editorial issues, the 3rd edition rules were well-received enough to win the 1986 / 1987 Gamer's Choice Award for " Best Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game " ( Rabe 1987 ).

Despite this, in an editorial in his newspaper Das Reich in November 1941 Goebbels quoted Hitler ’ s 1939 " prophecy " that the Jews would be the loser in the coming world war.

Despite his success in revitalizing Marvel, Shooter angered and alienated a number of long-time Marvel creators by insisting on strong editorial control and strict adherence to deadlines.

" Despite over 200 pages of their fashion editorial in Glamour, and over 80 pages in Vogue, the Arbuses ' fashion photography has been described as of " middling quality.

Despite its Confederate background the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for its coverage and editorial opposition to the resurgent Ku Klux Klan.

Despite this success, Lafferty left the magazine after only two years following various disagreements including the editorial direction on a cover story on Desperate Housewives, and a perceived generation gap towards third-wave feminists and grunge, a genre that Lafferty had trashed as being oppositional to feminism.

Despite Spur agreement to add Attila Kotányi and Jacqueline de Jong to editorial committee of Spur, the following issue # 7 was printed five months later without Kotányi and de Jong ’ s knowledge.

Despite being heavily out matched in fundraising, he rode a late surge fueled by sweeping editorial endorsements to finish third in the March 16, 2004 Illinois U. S. Senate Republican primary election that was won by Jack Ryan, and was a front-runner to replace Ryan as the Republican nominee in the first two weeks after Ryan quit the Senate race.

Despite being re-formatted and re-named as The Sun under editor Sydney Jacobson in 1964, it continued to lag and in 1969 was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News International, which altered its format and editorial position.

Despite his Indiana roots, a Kentucky Post editorial on August 15, 1951, called Woodfill " one of the greatest soldiers produced by the Bluegrass state.

Despite the ostensible separation between editorial writing and news gathering, this practice may cause some people to doubt the political objectivity of the publication's news reporting.

" Despite his contacts with London, McDowell's actions did not interfere with Gageby's editorials on Northern Ireland ", due to the fact McDowell believed in editorial independence ( even though McDowell strongly disagreed with Gageby's nationalist views ), and because Gageby was making the newspaper commercially successful.

Despite its avowed independent editorial style, Reforma has been labeled as a right-wing newspaper in references by The Guardian, Clarin, the San Antonio Express-News, the University of Miami school of communication, and the The Princeton Progressive Nation.

Despite the fact that the PARTEI's official headquarters are located at Mauerstraße in Berlin, the fax number given turns out to be the same as that of Titanic editorial offices.

Despite the name, New Atari User was to all intents and purposes the same magazine as Page 6 ; it had virtually no editorial continuity with the old Atari User.