Despite the economic crisis and the budget cutbacks announced by the Dutch government for the period up to 2014, the university has set itself an ambitious strategic vision for the period up to 2020.

Despite the successes enjoyed by his troops, Germanicus ' German campaign was in reaction to the mutinous intentions of his troops, and lacked real strategic value.

Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.

Despite this, the Eastern Roman / Byzantine armies continued to be influenced by the earlier Roman legions, and were maintained with similar level of discipline, strategic prowess, and organization.

Despite significant strategic advances into Federation space, they were eventually driven back to their own borders, and suffered a devastating wartime catastrophe on Remus.

Despite the battle being a tactical Confederate victory, the strategic situation in the Eastern Theater remained unchanged.

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 these and other Community-wide efforts to improve intelligence support, the loss of resources during the 1970s limited the Community's ability to collect and produce timely intelligence and ultimately contributed to intelligence shortcomings in Iran, Afghanistan, and other strategic areas.

Despite these strategic advantages, the large city in the area would become Wenatchee, just seven miles upriver from the site of present-day Rock Island.

Despite any tactical imbalance, the strategic value of Fleurus was immense for the French.

Despite protecting his strategic bombing force from demands of other services and allies, Arnold was forced to divert resources from the Eighth to support operations in North Africa, crippling the Eighth in its infancy and nearly killing it.

Despite its inconclusive finish, the battle was a clear strategic victory for the Dutch.

Despite Malta's rapid transformation into a strategic naval base during the British period, the influence of Italian culture on Malta strengthened considerably throughout the 19th century.

Despite the ultimate loss of Polish army, the Battle of the Bzura river had major strategic importance: it made Germans change their scheme and regroup and also delayed the capitulation of Warsaw.

Despite the promise of reforms and quick recruitment of new forces, the strategic situation of the Polish forces was still critical.

Despite being in command of the fleet, strategic decisions were to be taken by James II, François d ' Usson de Bonrepaus and Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds.

Despite leading the invasion of the Falkland Islands, in both strategic and tactical aspects the Argentine fleet played only a small part in the subsequent conflict with the Royal Navy.

Despite their depleted state, the Regia Aeronautica attempted a strategic attack on Gibraltar on 19 July with 10 SM. 79GAs, but only two managed to reach their target, again without achieving any result.

Despite this, it is a strategic location.

Despite this bravado, and despite receiving units from McClellan's Army of the Potomac that swelled the Army of Virginia to 70, 000 men, Pope's aggressiveness exceeded his strategic capabilities, particularly since he was now facing Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Despite Lee ’ s barrage attack of 140 cannons and a final infantry attack on the third day of the battle, the Union army won a strategic victory.

Despite his tactical and strategic successes in defending the Guatemalan republic, President Árbenz Guzmán ordered his military commander to allow the liberation army of Col. Castillo Armas to advance deep into Guatemala.

Despite these shortcomings, the R-16 was unquestionably the first truly credible rocket-based strategic nuclear deterrent developed by the Soviet Union.

Despite Soult's failure to relieve the town, the battle had little strategic effect on the on-going war.

Despite causing the predicament faced by the Medieval soldiers, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time.

Despite the desperation of her predicament, she is confident that this will be another of her happy days.

Despite their predicament, Hunter-Weston ordered the New Zealanders, including the Otago Battalion in reserve, to resume that attack at 17: 30.

Despite God Ginrai's rebirth into Victory Leo, it was a severe blow to Autobot morale and the unstable Victory Leo had to prove himself to the others ( similar to the predicament the Dinobots once faced ).

Despite this, Sue was an upbeat, cheerful girl who never complained or despaired over her predicament.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

Despite initial successes, the German army was stopped close to Moscow in December 1941.

Despite the abolition of the German monarchy in 1918, the House of Hohenzollern never relinquished their claims to the thrones of Prussia and the German Empire.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

Despite their ultimate importance, the German navy declined to take up the cause of another experiment, the submarine, until 1904.

Despite vowing not to make any more films about the Nazi Party, in 1935, Riefenstahl made the 18-minute Day of Freedom: Armed Forces about the German army.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite his lengthy stay abroad, Bismarck was not entirely detached from German domestic affairs.

Despite the estimations held by Hitler and others in the German high command, the Soviet Union was by no means weak.

Despite public displays of goodwill towards the populace, privately Heydrich left no illusions as to his eventual goal: " This entire area will one day be definitely German, and the Czechs have nothing to expect here ".

Despite killing 34 people, Baader-Meinhof garnered a degree of support from the West German population.

Despite proclamations of German hegemony, the pope was the most powerful force in Italy.

Despite German pressure, Bulgaria did not take part in the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union and actually never declared war on the Soviet Union.