Despite his preparations and intentions to cow the Jews, Diodotus was entirely unsuccessful, and left the region under the rule of Jonathan's brother Simon, with little gain beyond a minor tribute of 100 talents.

Despite such all-star talents on staff, Life had passed its prime, and was sliding toward financial ruin.

Despite moving among high society, the family and their friends, condescend to Julien for being an uncouth plebeian — his intellectual talents notwithstanding.

Despite the burgeoning demand for his talents, however, Struzan was still only earning $ 150 to $ 250 per album cover.

Despite the country's ability to produce outstanding football talents, DBU only had ambition ( or economy ) to let the national team play friendly matches and the regional tournament Nordic Championship, during the time from October 1920 until June 1948.

Despite being nasty, Nanette does hold many talents, such as spending the entire episode " Don't Overdue It " balancing a book on her head ( and staining it with hair gel ) and writing a " three act Greek tragedy " in the episode " Ancient Greeks " and casting all of her classmates in " the lesser roles " such as Jimmy Jamal as Zeus, Johnny Abatti as an eagle, Gina Lash as Dionysus, Gordy Rhinehart as Hercules, and Angela with a multitude of roles because she was disgusted by Angela's acting performance.

Despite his intelligence, his talents were not discovered by Later Zhao officials.

Despite early-season losses and ensuing criticism in 2006 – 07, including a 3 – 0 loss at home to Nuremberg, Veh managed to turn the collection of new players like Mexicans Pável Pardo, and Ricardo Osorio, and Brazilian Antônio da Silva and fresh local talents, including Mario Gómez, Serdar Tasci and Sami Khedira, into a strong contender that led the league on 12 November 2006 for the first time in two years.

Despite being " Made in Chorlton-cum-Hardy " ( Lancashire ) he has a strong Yorkshire accent, although this is probably due to the voice talents of Joe Lynch more than any planning by Cosgrove Hall.

Despite his economic status, Rydberg was recognized for his talents.

Despite the apparent talents, or popularity at court, which led to his fairly rapid rise, Rochfort is probably best known ( even notorious ) for the treatment of his young wife Mary, whom he married in 1736 when he was 28 and she 16.

Despite his prodigious arcane talents, Camber repeatedly expresses his frustration that he was not born a Healer.

Despite the skilled talents of the manufacturing team, ( such as Emerson / McCartney Moog technician Phil Pierce who worked on the attack / decay electronics ), and a man by the name of ' Roger Rogers ' who worked on design development, delays in actual production arose due to issues that became time consuming to solve properly.

Despite his talents as a human experience engineer, he delivers subtly flawed proposals to them in order to undermine them and enable his own tribe to get a coveted contract.

Despite being depicted as being a lazy mongrel, he expresses many talents when properly motivated.

Despite his obvious talents, his social position allowed him to rise no higher than sergeant.

Despite winning the contest, Angham recalls how her father was not pleased with her performance and that his negative attitude was the major force that propelled her in a battle between her talents and her inner self to come up with better songs.

Despite teething troubles which saw the power units and gearboxes reach what many observers claimed to be an unacceptably high level of unreliability, Mecachrome has been an integral and vital part of the success of the GP2 Series, providing the power which has displayed the emerging talents of F1 drivers Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen, Lewis Hamilton and Timo Glock.

Despite suffering from a terminal heart condition, he fought the scheme with all his considerable talents, dying shortly before Wolseley had achieved his ends.

Despite his vocal talents, Swofford was unable to sustain further success on the charts, and in 1983, People magazine ran a feature article on Swofford, describing him as a happily married father who kept his distance from the music industry, selling real estate.

Writing of her storyline with Wilfred, Gaughan said that " Despite the comedic talents of Braid, Sutton and Richie, any hints towards Cockney family comedy were eschewed in favour of Albert Square's preponderance of gloom.

Despite early disciplinary problems at The Dell, Ruddock's talents as a confident, left-footed defender earned him England Under-21 honours.

Despite her friend's best efforts ( she spoke several languages and had musical talents ) she was unable to find work.

Despite his individual talents, the Bulls lacked the talent and, physical and mental toughness to win ; Detroit won in 5.

Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

Despite numerous requests by Abdullah bin Jassim — for strong military support, for weapons, and even for a loan — the British were reluctant to become involved in inland affairs and kept him at arm's length.

Despite clear indications from CIA that he is not involved with any terrorist outfit.

Despite uncertainty about the single origin of yakuza organizations, most modern yakuza derive from two classifications which emerged in the mid-Edo Period ( 1603 – 1868 ): tekiya, those who primarily peddled illicit, stolen or shoddy goods ; and bakuto, those who were involved in or participated in gambling.

Despite his agency's later reputation for anti-labor activities, Pinkerton himself was heavily involved in pro-labor politics as a young man.

Despite the significantly increased costs involved in running the new four-stroke machinery, given their extra 490cc capacity advantage, the four-strokes were soon able to dominate their two-stroke rivals.

Despite the considerable difference in equipment the two activities offer similar pleasures and some pilots are involved in both sports.

Despite the difficulty involved in constructing the road, the workers had access to a piano, gramophone, games, newspapers and magazines at the camps.

Despite the U. S. request that those involved be brought to account, Sharon was not prosecuted.

Despite the events of 1956, Childe retained a love of the Soviet Union, having visited it on a number of occasions prior, and was involved with the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, a satellite body of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Despite having massed forces along the border, Charles ' military attentions were distracted by the problems in Gascony and he eventually chose to settle the rebellion peacefully through the Peace of Arques in 1326, in which Louis was only indirectly involved.

Despite the fact that Achilles and Deidamea could have been as young as eight years old, the two soon became romantically involved to the point of intimacy.

Despite this success, a battle with alcoholism, which started in the mid-1980s, increasingly blighted his life as he was reportedly often involved in fights in nightclubs.

Despite its remote location, the school has been involved in state and national activities, hosting the military's " Operation Arctic Care " outreach health program in 2002, and briefly becoming involved with reporting for CNN Student Bureau that same year.

Despite the stress, lack of sleep, and inefficiency involved, students become trapped into a perpetual mode of procrastination.

Despite being embroiled in the American Civil War, the United States Army retaliated in 1863 and 1864, even against bands which had not been involved in the hostilities.

Despite his relative youth and inexperience, Julius Chambers argued the case, because of his intimate knowledge of the facts involved.

Despite the huge amount of buildings and artists involved with the BAT ( over 50, 000 buildings have been uploaded to the SimCity3000Unlimited web site at EA. com ), some feel that it has not gained the cult-status the SCURK has.

Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involved serious subjects, such as son Theo's experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's son Ennis, who was also dyslexic.

Despite this fact, anger surfaces when both parties involved is responsible for some type of uncontrollable behavior, sexual conduct is not exempt.

Despite having a full-time job at the New Haven Clock Company ( A Camp Family Business ) and being an unpaid yet very involved adviser to the Yale football team, Camp wrote articles and books on gridiron and also on sports in general.

Despite the relatively small numbers of troops involved, the battle is considered pivotal to the American victory in the Revolution.