Despite his family's poor background, he performed well after entering the Church and rose quickly through the ranks.

Despite his humble background, Martok would become extremely popular among other warriors and the civilian population, though Martok had repeatedly stated he had no interest in politics.

Despite Lady Sayer's establishment background, she was a fearless and impassionedfighter in the defence of Dartmoor: frequently she deliberately interrupted army live-firing exercises on Dartmoor's military ranges, and in 1985 snubbed The Prince of Wales over the Duchy of Cornwall's management plan for Dartmoor, since this allowed for a continuance of military usage.

Despite the fact that we lack background knowledge to indicate that there are dramatically fewer men than short people, we still find ourselves inclined to reject the conclusion.

Despite having a religious background, he later on became an agnostic.

Despite his education at Balliol and a background in London publishing, Gell found the operations of the Press incomprehensible.

Despite his upper-class background, his political orientation came to be influenced by Social Democratic attitudes.

Despite his Catholic background, he later on became an atheist.

Despite their poor background, the senior Jagan sent his son to Queen's College in Georgetown.

Despite its Taishan ( Toisan ) background, there are various colorful stories about its origin, which Davidson ( 1999 ) characterizes as " culinary mythology ": Some say it was invented by Chinese immigrant cooks working on the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.

Despite his Mainlander background, Soong proved to be a popular politician among all ethnic groups on Taiwan, in part because he was one of the first KMT politicians to attempt to use the Taiwanese language in political and formal occasions.

Despite this background, Seddon did not perform well at school, and was described as unruly.

Despite their apparent hiatus or split, the song " Freestyler " still remains popular, being used as background music or being played alongside other dance songs of the same era in clubs.

Despite his background as a screenwriter, one of Wong's trademarks as a director is that he works largely through improvisation and experimentation involving the actors and crew rather than adhering to a fixed screenplay.

Despite their Kurdish background, the sultans remained impartial to both groups.

Despite a shared military background, the group of Free Officers that carried out the July 14 Revolution was plagued by internal dissension.

Despite this background reason, the rule is often enforced strictly against all, including foreigners, women, and even when tattoos are small and " peaceful ".

" Despite having no formal background in biology, he has become a prominent critic of evolutionary theory.

Despite her background in Christian fundamentalism, Tammy Faye became a gay icon after her parting from PTL, appearing in Gay Pride marches with such figures as Lady Bunny and Bruce Vilanch.

Despite his legal background, most of Peterson's early career was spent in the world of private enterprise.

Despite having a religious background, he later on became an agnostic.

Despite her family background, Mukerji was never interested in becoming an actress.

Despite coming from a technically purely human background, Susan has inherited abilities from her adoptive Grandfather through a way that is more than conventional means: Into Death's family, her mother, Ysabell was merely adopted, into Death's family, her father, Mort merely married, but, into Death's family, Susan was conceived and born ; " some things were inherited through more than genetics ... some things were inherited through the soul ... some things were in the bones.

Despite her family background, her father disapproved of women entering the acting profession because he believed it conflicted with the traditional maternal duties and responsibility of women in the family.

Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.

Despite, or perhaps because of, its small size Harwich is highly regarded in terms of architectural heritage, and the whole of the older part of the town, excluding Navyard Wharf, is a conservation area.

Despite being modest in number ( perhaps 7, 000 units total as of 1988 ), Lisp machines commercially pioneered many now-commonplace technologies – including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, computer mice, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering, and networking innovations like CHAOSNet.

Despite its urban and industrial character, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta remain perhaps California's most important ecological habitats.

Despite the influx of advertisers and their cash, or perhaps because of them, the 1940s were not without bumps for the radio networks.

Despite several references listing different combinations of Picti, Scotti, Hiberni, Attecotti and Saxons together as later Roman Britain's archetypal enemies, it is worth noting that ' Scotti ' and ' Hiberni ' are never listed together, perhaps suggesting that they were then, as they were later, alternative names for the Irish or confederations of the Irish.

Despite the vast size of its coma, Halley's nucleus is relatively small: barely 15 kilometers long, 8 kilometers wide and perhaps 8 kilometers thick.

Despite the lack of hard evidence, it has been put forward by some authorities that black robes, perhaps slightly tainted with red to hide bloodstains, was indeed the sensible garment of choice for infiltration.

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) the manner in which Ford intended it, Rose adopted that nickname as a badge of honor.

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the spirit of this mystic comes alive through a " unique forcefulness ... vigor of thought and rugged terseness of style.

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) his pride and persistence, Sylvester is, with rare exceptions, placed squarely on the " loser " side of the Looney Tunes winner / loser hierarchy.

For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.

Despite the hard times they endured together, or perhaps because of them, Shaka loved his mother almost to the point of worship.

Despite the relative low number of Polynesian languages, and the relative abundance of data already available on many of them, the comparative method was often reduced to comparisons of vocabulary, its shared sporadic sound changes and, as Wilson did in 1985, comparison of pronominal systems which is perhaps the second most commonly described aspect of " minor " languages often available for comparison after the lexicostatistical lists.

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) their conflicting attitudes, the Professor and Thomas are billeted together by Satan.

Despite the intensive military operations, apparently no serious thought was given stripping Madison of his powers and duties temporarily, perhaps partly because his Vice President, Elbridge Gerry, also was in poor health and nearing age 70.

Despite the brutality Lamb got along well at Christ's Hospital, due in part, perhaps, to the fact that his home was not far distant thus enabling him, unlike many other boys, to return often to the safety of home.

Despite a worldwide course development slowdown, Nicklaus ’ s design firm has over 40 courses in development around the globe ... And he remains perhaps golf ’ s most respected spokesperson on a wide range of issues.

" Despite their insanity, or perhaps because of it, the Malkavians have the capacity to " see " the future.

" Despite his technique, or perhaps owing to it, within 18 months the store ( as well as Eddie and Ronnie ) was nearly bankrupt.

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) the country's association with Joseph Stalin, Soviet rule in Georgia was particularly harsh during the 1950s and sought to restrict Georgian cultural expression.

Despite Perry's notoriety for doctoring baseballs ( i. e. throwing a spitball ), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them on a regular basis – he even went so far as to title his 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter – he was not ejected for the illegal practice until August 23, 1982, in his 21st season in the majors.

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Louis XVIII forced Gazan into retirement in Grasse, where the aging general dabbled unsuccessfully in politics.

Despite this, perhaps partly again due to superstitution and partly because Emperor Ling viewed his behavior as being insufficiently solemn, Prince Bian was never created crown prince, and at times Emperor Ling seriously considered creating the younger Prince Xie crown prince.