Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite mission replanning necessitated by Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s abort to orbit trajectory, the Spacelab mission was declared a success.

Despite Kitna's success, Palmer was promoted to starting quarterback the following season.

Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.

Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite its success, Enniskillen was not chosen as a World Cup Stop for 2008.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.

Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Despite this tragedy the railway was a resounding success.

Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

" Despite his success in an " A movie ," Bogart received a tepid twenty-six week contract at $ 550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of " B movie " crime dramas.

Despite having the truest-to-arcade graphics of all the home versions of Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat Gold did not receive high marks for visual quality ; Game Revolution commented: " The graphics are inexcusably horrible it's quite a depressing let-down on Sega's 128-bit masterpiece, especially when compared to Soulcalibur ".

Despite being one of the original creators of the MK series, Tobias is not mentioned in commentary or descriptions in the " making of " documentaries for Deadly Alliance and Deception, but was referred to as one of " four people who made " the original Mortal Kombat.

Despite there being no comic book tie-in for Mortal Kombat 3 ( nor Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 or Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the two updated versions of MK3 ), one was released for 1997's MK4.

Despite the debut of Donald Bradman, the inexperienced Australians, led by Jack Ryder, were heavily defeated, losing 4 – 1.

Despite Filipino and Indonedian foreign domestic helpers being the ethnic minorities, there are over 273, 609 foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, accounting for 4 % of the entire population.

Despite their proximity to Qatar ( Suwād al Janūbīyah is only 1. 4 km from the Qatari mainland at the peninsula of Ras Abruq, while Rubud Al Gharbiyah, the island closest to the main island of Bahrain, lies at a distance of 19. 7 km to it ), the islands belong to Bahrain but were the subject of a dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.

Despite having several respectable seasons with Tarkenton at quarterback, including a 7 – 7 finish in 1967 and 9 – 5 in 1970, the Giants traded him back to the Vikings after a 4 – 10 finish in 1971.

Despite its diameter of 0. 4 light-years, Barnard 68 only has twice the mass of the Sun, making it both very diffuse and very cold-about 16 degrees Kelvin.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

Despite such figures, S < sup > 2 +</ sup > is rare, S < sup > 4, 6 +</ sup > being more common.

Despite acquiring an increasing percentage of the popular vote — 34 % overall in 2006 — opposition parties gained small numbers of seats in the general elections of 1984 ( 2 seats of 79 ), 1988 ( 1 seat of 81 ), 1991 ( 4 seats of 81 ), 1997 ( 2 seats of 83 ) and 2001 ( 2 seats of 84 ).

Despite its radioactivity, thorium fluoride ( ThF < sub > 4 </ sub >) is used as an antireflection material in multilayered optical coatings.

Despite being underdogs against the defending Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division semifinals, Gretzky led the Kings to a shocking upset of his old squad, spearheading the Kings ' return from a 3 – 1 series deficit to win the series 4 – 3.

Despite the overwhelmingly positive critical reception for their first 4 albums, the band was frustrated by its lack of wider mainstream success.

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

Despite the Emperor ’ s abdication, irregular warfare continued along the eastern borders and on the outskirts of Paris until the signing of a cease-fire on 4 July.

Despite its status as a Level ‑ 4 organism and its apparent pathogenicity in monkeys, REBOV did not cause disease in exposed human laboratory workers.

Despite the existence of a narrow channel through the beach obstacles, the ramps and mines there accounted for the loss 22 LCVPs, 2 LCI ( L ) s and 4 LCTs.

Despite the Hong Kong laserdisc being NTSC, it has a 4 % faster running time due to its PAL source, and thus also suffers from " frame ghosting ".

Despite losing as much as $ 4 million on the CBL, Mallett initially promised to bring the league back in 2004.

Despite the loss of Brand, the Sixers earned a playoff berth with a 95-90 win against the Detroit Pistons on April 4, 2009, at home.

Despite the Cavaliers ' long layoff between the series they swept the Hawks 4 – 0, again winning each game by at least ten points, becoming the first team in NBA history to win eight straight playoff games by a double-digit margin.

Despite his absence, the Pistons rallied from 15 down in the third quarter to win Game 4 90 – 89, on a field goal by Tayshaun Prince with just 8. 9 seconds to play, taking a 3 – 1 series lead.

Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.

Despite the disappointment, Williams proved to be one of the elite point guards in the league, averaging 19. 4 points and 10. 8 assists per game, second in the league, despite playing the entire season with a lingering ankle injury.

Despite the injuries, the Jazz played well enough to defeat Denver 4 – 2 in the series.

Despite their success against Calgary, round 2 would prove to be a disaster for the Sharks, when they lost in a four game sweep to Detroit ( in a rematch of the previous year ) without even holding a single lead in all 4 games.