Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

Despite Japan's high standing in the League, the subsequent Lytton Report declared Japan to be the aggressor and demanded Manchuria be returned to the Chinese.

Despite general acceptance of Byrne's characterization, as evidenced by subsequent adaptations in other media, some writers have called for a return to Luthor's original status as a mad scientist.

Despite the subsequent explosion in records from doo wop acts in the later 50s, many failed to chart or were one-hit wonders.

Despite her frequent pregnancies, she travelled with Shah Jahan's entourage throughout his earlier military campaigns and the subsequent rebellion against his father.

Despite some allegations that EMR exposure has negative health consequences, at this time, no link has been verifiably proven between the radio-frequency EMR that tin foil hats are meant to protect against and subsequent ill health.

Despite subsequent events, there is no evidence that the young Arthur might have had ulterior motives at this time, despite the fact that Butler had helped to educate half the government of the United Kingdom.

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, and despite the lead protagonist being unnamed, all six books have been unofficially called the Harry Palmer novels, based on the protagonist's name given in the subsequent film adaptations of The IPCRESS File and its sequels.

Despite the popularity of her subsequent early talking films, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and Their Own Desire ( both 1929 ), Shearer feared the public would soon tire of her " good girl " image, and took the advice of friend and co-star Ramón Novarro to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell.

Despite the success of " I Love You ", and despite favorable reviews, the subsequent album, named after their hit single and released in July 1968, only reached No. 138 on the Billboard charts.

Despite the initial institutional design of communism implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Eastern Bloc, subsequent development varied across countries.

Despite their low draft and subsequent problems in navigating in high seas, many basic design elements of the Monitor class were copied in future warships by other designers and navies.

Despite a pledge by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make the city flood free, and subsequent work to do so, another major flood occurred in 1977.

Despite the group's competent musicianship, some subsequent singles employed session musicians – including Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Vic Flick – with contributions from the band, although the role of session players on Herman's Hermits records has been exaggerated in the rock media and in liner notes on their ABKCO Records Retrospective ( which does not credit the Hermits ' playing ).

Despite his desire to emancipate his fellow countrymen, Tone had very little respect for the Catholic faith ( a view shared by many subsequent Irish republicans ).

Despite the success of the record and the subsequent concert tours, not everything was well with the band.

Despite this, matsetela ( 2000 ) stated that the process was then halted and the situation began to reverse itself, as the subsequent violent actions of drug lords, paramilitaries, guerrillas and opportunistic large landowners severely contributed to a renewed concentration of land and to the displacement of small landowners.

Despite an effort by some professors to defend Roark and a subsequent offer to continue at Stanton from the dean, Roark chooses to leave the school.

Despite providing an enormous gain in worker productivity, the Chinese spinning wheel fell into disuse over the subsequent centuries and was completely unknown by the 17th century, whereas the mechanical automation of spinning in Europe in the 18th century ( from manual spinning wheel precursors of the 13th century ultimately sourced from Asia Minor ) led directly to a process of technical refinement and engineering improvements that resulted in the Industrial Revolution and widespread mechanization of production of goods beyond yarn.

Despite positive reaction, the timing of the initial staging was bad ( coming mere days after the September 11 attacks ), and even after subsequent readings, the show never attained the investors needed to become a full-blown production.

Despite the sharp decline in sales of Betamax recorders in the late 1980s and subsequent halt in production of new recorders by Sony in 2002, both Betamax and SuperBetamax are still being used by a small number of people.

Despite his fame as a performer and subsequent intent to continue his career, he appears to have died unregarded and in penury in around 1603.

Despite initial success, poor communication between the Soviet Republican armor and Spanish Republican infantry caused the isolation of Captain Arman's force and the subsequent destruction of a number of tanks.

Despite problems over the previous acquisition of AC Cars, Hayes saw the potential of the brand and the discussion resulted in Ford taking a share holding in September 1987.

Despite its brevity, the First Samnite War results in the major acquisition by Rome of the rich land of Campania with its capital of Capua.

Despite the acquisition, Rare still kept developing games for Nintendo handheld consoles, as Microsoft is currently not participating in the handheld video game console market: In August 2003, Rare and Microsoft made a deal with THQ for Rare to publish games for the Game Boy Advance, which have included Sabre Wulf, a game based on an Ultimate character ; Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge, an interquel to the two Nintendo 64 games ; and It's Mr. Pants !, a puzzle game that was originally developed as " Donkey Kong: Coconut Crackers ", and featured the company's unofficial mascot.

Despite the relatively recent acquisition of these territories, Romanians had seen them as historically belonging to Romania, and the fact that so much land was lost without a fight shattered the underpinnings of King Carol's power.

Despite the acquisition, however, Shell Oil remained a very independent business.

Despite high production values, the show's ratings faced an abrupt decline near the end of the season ( in part because of the success of Saban's acquisition of Digimon ), which led fans to believe that the studio wrapped up the series earlier than planned in order to cover their costs.

Despite this, the future of one of Ireland ’ s finest houses was perilously uncertain, until Ballyfin ’ s acquisition by the Krehbiels.

Despite winning the 1995 Football League Cup, James ' hold on the starting position was put in jeopardy with the acquisition of Brad Friedel.

Despite the 40 % acquisition by Sears Roebuck, both companies maintained their Standard & Poor's " single -' B '- plus corporate credit rating ".

Despite this series of events, Imra's leadership was highly valued in the Legion, and her position as leader, despite its means of acquisition, was allowed to stand.

Despite the WWWThreads acquisition, Infopop / Groupee failed to gain back most of their lost market share, and consequently, many UBB. classic and even WWWThreads / UBB. threads forum owners continued to move to competing forum software packages.

Despite the decrease in music videos, CMT has experienced significant ratings gains since its acquisition by MTV Networks in 1999.

Despite bidding for a number of other larger bus operators in the intervening period, the first major acquisition was Brighton & Hove in November 1993, which was quickly followed by the Oxford Bus Company in March 1994.

Despite this welcome and prestigious acquisition of support, An Gof, the blacksmith, remained in command of the army.

Despite GTW ’ s efforts the ICC rejected its bid and approved of the Soo Line ’ s acquisition of the Milwaukee Road and the two roads were merged in January 1986.

Despite the 1880 takeover, the NC & StL continued to grow through the acquisition of branch lines in Kentucky and Alabama, and expanded from Nashville to Memphis.

Despite increased pressure from O ' Neal battling injuries and the acquisition of three-time All-Star Antoine Walker, Haslem retained the starting spot.

Despite the festival's 2008 acquisition of a five-year licence for the Wasing location, it was revealed on 28 November 2008 that the 2009 event would not take place on the Berkshire estate.

Despite speculation that Activision might buy the Creative Assembly, as the publisher had done with previous successful developers under its wing, the Japanese company Sega announced on 9 March 2005 that they had sealed an acquisition deal with the Creative Assembly, purchasing all issued shares in the company.

" Despite Kennedy's sparse acquisition of individual awards, many sportswriters consider Kennedy as possibly the greatest player to have played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Despite the acquisition, the site still relies on word of mouth and friend referrals to grow.

Despite the presence of significant human capital in the region, AHDR 2003 concluded that disabling constraints hamper the acquisition, diffusion and production of knowledge in Arab societies.