Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

Despite his lack of any scientific knowledge, Stephenson, by trial and error, devised a lamp in which the air entered via tiny holes.

Despite the official government statement that allowed for freedom of the press, this was the first trial of whether or not Dubcek was serious about reforms.

Despite their victory, these failures caused outrage in Athens and led to a controversial trial.

Despite some notable early victories at Duck Lake, Fish Creek and Cut Knife, the rebellion effectively ended for the Métis with their defeat at the siege of Batoche, Saskatchewan, the eventual scattering of their allied Aboriginal forces elsewhere, and the trial and hanging of Louis Riel.

Despite the failure of Nagant's rifle in the patent trial he claimed he was entitled to the sum the winner was to receive.

Despite serious injuries, including damage to several major organs, Brown survived the attack and ultimately testified at Muhammad's trial.

Despite their misgivings ( and Belvedere's declaration that he detests children ), the Kings reluctantly agree to a trial period.

Despite Stevens's short tenure as an Alaska resident and his relative lack of trial or criminal law experience, Pratt asked Stevens to serve in the position until Eisenhower acted.

Despite a total lack of real evidence Green and two of his crew, John Madden and James Simpson, were sent for trial.

Despite the forced nature of confessions, retractions at trial were not considered a danger to the process, due to the obvious threat of continued torture during a recess of the trial.

" Despite Turpin's pleas that he had been told the trial would be held in Essex, the judge replied: " Whoever told you so were highly to blame ; and as your country have found you guilty of a crime worthy of death, it is my office to pronounce sentence against you ", sentencing him to death.

Despite the possibility of two venues for trial, almost all criminal cases, however serious, commence in the Magistrates ' Courts.

Despite being a commissioner for the trial of Charles, Sidney also opposed the decision to have him executed due to the questionable lawfulness and wisdom of the decision.

Despite Justice King's repeated warnings to Kunstler to " be careful, sir ", Kunstler quickly became " the star of the trial, the man the jurors watch most attentively, and the lawyer whose voice carries most forcefully ".

Despite Rob getting the better of Mahé Drysdale in the domestic regattas the selectors created a three-race trial to decide who would go.

Despite his acquittal, the trial brought many sordid details of Edwards ' conduct under public scrutiny.

) Despite this, Crittenden refused a request to represent Beauchamp in his murder trial because he wanted to avoid any implication in the matter.

Despite the fact that he did not participate in the planning of the coup, Aubame was sentenced at his trial to 10 years of hard labor and 10 years of exile.

Despite this, in The Ultimate Foe, the Inquistor breaks more rules of the trial by letting the Valeyard continue to prosecute.

Despite Aubrey's touching belief in British justice, his is a political trial given that the Government want to attack General Aubrey and his Radical friends.

Despite variations in wording and placement of the various fair trial rights, international human rights instrument define the right to a fair trial in broadly the same terms.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.

Despite a cast led by Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner and some impressive battle scenes, the film was considered a disappointment by many.

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 all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite Bogart's elevated standing, he did not yet have a contractual right of script refusal, so when he got weak scripts, he dug in his heels, and locked horns again with the front office, as he did on the film Conflict ( 1945 ).

Despite the discomfort of jumping from the boat into swamps, rivers and marshes the film apparently rekindled in Bogart his early love of boats and on his return to California from the Congo he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout which he kept until his death.

" Despite the acrimony, the film was successful.

Despite his enthusiasm for film, Jarmusch, an avid reader in his youth, had a greater interest in literature, a pursuit in which he was encouraged by his grandmother.

Despite his complete lack of experience in filmmaking, his submission of a collection of still photographs and an essay about film secured his acceptance into the program.

Despite being panned by the critics, the film eventually earned $ 50 million.

Despite its being his first film in twenty years, Cagney was immediately at ease.

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

Despite being a multi-starrer movie, the film failed in India but it was an overseas success.

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 controversial subject, the film is still recognized for its revolutionary approach to using music and cinematography.

Despite his stage success, a theatrical agent advised Falk not to expect much film acting work because of his glass eye.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Despite the move away from physical film stock – much editing is now based on digital media – devices such as the Lightworks non-linear film editing controller and archives still use the Steenbeck physical layout for controlling the process.

Despite his other film roles, Jones worried that people only recognized him as Ben.

Despite the controversy, five years after the premiere Paul McCullough of Take One observed that Night of the Living Dead was the " most profitable horror film ever [...] produced outside the walls of a major studio ".