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Despite their embrace of the principle of rectilinear inertia and the recognition of the kinematical relativity of apparent motion ( which underlies whether the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system is correct ), natural philosophers of the seventeenth century continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body.
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Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.
Despite their adherence to the status quo, the forces of organized religion were compelled to make adjustments as increasing civilization augmented human knowledge.
Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to grow graver all the time.
Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.
Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.
Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.
Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.
Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.
Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.
Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A. D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.
Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.
Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.
Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.
Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.
Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.
Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.
Despite the opposition of some of their number, the Israelites assemble and send away their foreign wives and children.
Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.
Despite their trials, God will not desert his people.
Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.
Despite and embrace
Despite Pickford's embrace of the new medium it seems she was as concerned as everyone else about how her voice would record, despite the fact she had a stage career before entering film.
Despite Sieyès ' embrace of Enlightenment thinking, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1773.
Despite this recognition, the royal family rigidly opposed her potential marriage to the King's uncle, a rejection that deeply wounded her pride and led her to distance herself from the royal family and embrace grassroots causes, such as her answering the request of the Egyptian legion trapped in Falujah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict to sing a particular song.
Despite his conservative theological beliefs, Machen was never able to fully embrace popularist fundamentalism either.
Despite this, some Jews did not embrace Zionism before the 1930s and certain religious groups opposed it on the grounds that an attempt to re-establish Jewish rule in Israel by human agency was blasphemous.
Despite his success at the Chestnut Street Church, Simpson was frustrated by their reluctance to embrace this burden for wider evangelistic endeavor.
Despite these abilities, the Parasite became depressed because he could no longer embrace his wife and children.
Despite the loss of his biological daughter, Han Fei-tzu and Wang-mu embrace each other as kin, with Wang-mu feeling particularly close to Han Fei-tzu as a surrogate father as well as her teacher, mentor, and chief supporter.
Despite the colonists ' embrace of Paradise as home, the lifestyle is proving to be difficult and full of hardships.
Despite and principle
Despite these facts, most mathematicians accept the axiom of choice as a valid principle for proving new results in mathematics.
Despite the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.
Despite the economic crisis, Laissez-faire persisted as the guiding economic principle of Conservative Party ideology.
Despite an initial period of compliance, the principle of donating copies of books to certain libraries lapsed, partly due to the unwieldiness of the statute's provisions and partly because of a lack of cooperation by the publishers.
Despite this, the principle of health care " free at the point of use " became a central idea of the welfare state, which later governments, critical of the Welfare State, were unable to reverse.
Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that " the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed ; it was a moral imperative.
Despite this low level of differentiation between them, tree reconstruction and principle component analyses allowed a distinction between Balkan – Carpathian ( Romanians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Macedonians and Gagauzes ) and Balkan Mediterranean ( Greeks, Albanians, Turks ) population groups.
Despite these efforts, and the cooperation of Charles V, and rapprochement of the Protestants with Catholicism foundered on different concepts of ecclesiology and the principle of justification.
Despite Sigmund Freud's discussion of the pleasure principle, Leonard Carmichael notes that " laziness is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology ...
Despite the fact that article 32 of the Constitution of Iran states the defendant must be properly arraigned and the charges against him must be conveyed clearly and in writing, the SCC, the SCC frequently violates this principle.
Despite the concept of splitting of tanks into infantry and cruiser roles being an instance of the general economic principle of division of labour in mechanization, during World War II its application in mechanized warfare proved to be hugely inefficient in terms of technical development, production, maintenance, logistics, and — worst of all — tactical flexibility.
Despite all of the different tactics used by the agricultural workers during the unrest, their principle aims were simply to attain a minimum living wage and to end rural unemployment.
Despite many requests, none of the episodes have been released on DVD-the show has complicated rights issues, belonging in principle both to the BBC and Idle, but with issues concerning appearances by former-Beatle George Harrison and the songs of Neil Innes.
A ( if not the ) principle moral of Professor Manicas ’ s historical sketch is that ‘ the modern social sciences have been, unwittingly or not, defenders of the status quo ; ( p. 276 )… Despite this history, ‘ social science is potentially liberating ’ ( ibid .).
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