Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

Despite reforms, weak control over privatization led many successful state enterprises to bankruptcy.

Despite Cotton Mather's efforts, he never became quite as well known and successful in politics as his father.

Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

Despite his lack of capital, Newson was determined to be successful and in 1841, at the age of 29, he moved his family and devoted wife again, this time back to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing a fine range of buildings for malting barley.

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 a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of American and European influence.

Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

Despite these handicaps, at war's end the club recruited many players who represented the club during its most successful era in the early 1950s.

" Despite the acrimony, the film was successful.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Despite a relatively successful career in film and stage, Alexander never managed to repeat his Seinfeld-level of success in television.

Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he was also the first ( and the only successful ) Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony.

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.

Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.

Despite some flaws, it is generally ( although not universally ) thought to have been successful.

Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching # 2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Top 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.

Despite not selling as many copies as Eliminator, 1985's Afterburner was still as successful commercially, becoming their highest-charting album, and racking up sales of 5 million units.

Despite the decline in Milan's manufacturing production, the city has found alternative and successful sources of revenue, including publishing, finance, banking, food processing, information technology, logistics, transport and tourism.

Despite many successful firings, American nuclear rockets did not fly before the space race ended.

Despite these problems, the premiere was a triumph, and the opera was hailed as one of Wagner's most successful works.

Despite several successful evasions of the blockade by the French navy, it failed to inflict a major defeat upon the British.

Despite rising success, the band began to experience personal and legal problems related to drug and alcohol abuse, leading to multiple stints in drug rehabilitation for Hoon.

Despite government funded rehabilitation programs in 1976, some toxic leachates still enter the river from the Captain's Flat mine site.

Despite the army demanding his rehabilitation, Hitler would only go as far as naming him honorary colonel of an artillery regiment.

Despite marked advances in reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation, intensity-modulated radiotherapy ( IMRT ) and conservation approaches to certain malignancies, some patients continue to have significant functional deficits.

Despite the potential benefits, over the years very little has been put into rehabilitation.

Despite modern treatment and rehabilitation for emotional mental health disorders, “ even economically advantaged societies have competing priorities and budgetary constraints ”.

Despite the department being amalgamated into the Department of Internal Affairs in 1954, he continued in his rehabilitation role.

Despite his concerns, his long rehabilitation time paid off as he made a full recovery.

Despite widespread acceptance of the Bobath concept in stroke rehabilitation, literature has not found it to be superior compared to other treatment approaches.

Despite the lack of a direct prescribable cure for the effect of astasia on the motor system of the legs, in almost all documented cases physical rehabilitation and relief from mental stressors have led to a full recovery.

Despite numerous stays at rehabilitation clinics, he never conquered his addiction and remained in recovery.

Despite being advised to give up the pro wrestling circuit, Flair returned to the ring after months of rehabilitation and an alteration of his style, and went on to fame and fortune as " The Nature Boy ".

Despite having a total area of 147, 826 square kilometers, the province has approximately only 900 kilometers of tarmac, a large portion of which is in dire need of rehabilitation.

Despite the 1994 cease-fire, sporadic violations, sniper-fire, and landmine incidents continue to claim over 100 lives each year.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

Despite these troubles Andronikos III secured the extension of Byzantine control over Thessaly in 1333 and Epirus in 1337, by taking advantage of succession crises in these principalities.

* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.

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 the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

Despite their alliance, Greco-Bulgarian antagonism over the city and Macedonia in general did not abate.

Despite a cease-fire order from the army HQ, over 100 rounds were fired directly into the fleeing crowds by troops under the command of Major Ted Loden.

Despite the increasing evidence of a military build-up on Cuba, no U-2 flights were made over Cuba from September 5 until October 14.

Despite the criticism, viewers were immediately drawn to the serial, won over by Coronation Streets ' ordinary ' characters.

Despite the change to indirect fire, cannon proved highly effective during World War I, directly or indirectly causing over 75 % of casualties.

Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.

Despite the consensus of public health professionals regarding the benefits of vaccination, among chiropractors there are significant disagreements over the subject, which has led to negative impacts on both public vaccination and mainstream acceptance of chiropractic.

Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " for all his record sales ( over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone ), existed essentially on loose change.

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 Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.

Despite its many faults, the wheellock was a significant improvement over the matchlock in terms of both convenience and safety, since it eliminated the need to keep a smoldering match in proximity to loose gunpowder.

Despite this remarkable achievement, the Gatling's weight and cumbersome artillery carriage hindered their ability to keep up with infantry forces over difficult ground, particularly in Cuba, where roads were often little more than jungle footpaths.

Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.

Despite the failure of this coup, the United States became concerned over Honduran instability.