Despite the offseason losses and controversies, the Brewers fans still looked forward to the 2012 season with great optimism, as the Brewers, by the end of February, had sold over 1. 5 million tickets, the most before the month of March.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite the controversies, the games were heralded as a financial success, being one of the few in recent history to profit.

Despite his fame, until recently, there have been uncertainties and controversies surrounding both his place of birth and burial.

Despite their public commitment to philanthropy the Tata group has attracted several controversies.

Despite being constantly followed by paparazzi and being the source of multiple controversies, Guzmán still remains relatively accessible to her fans, and she signs autographs for them whenever she can.

Despite his controversies Strawberry is generally well regarded by the public and the media.

Despite the various controversies and refusals of certain governments to allow the film to be viewed in wide release, The Passion of the Christ earned $ 611, 899, 420 worldwide.

Despite the provision for private confession in every edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the practice was frequently contested during the Ritualist controversies of the later nineteenth century.

Despite his history of political and legal controversies, Barry remains a figure of enormous popularity and influence on the local political scene of Washington D. C.

Despite the political controversies and their age difference — he was fifteen years her senior — Helena was happy with Christian and was determined to marry him.

Despite the controversies, he was respected for his role in the anti-colonial struggle and was seen by many Arab intellectuals as one of the last original Arab nationalists.

Despite controversies sometimes associated with him, Mills remained at Columbia until his death in 1962.

Despite the controversies, however, it won them many new fans in the alternative rock scene.

Despite various criticisms and controversies, Stapp is recognized as one of the most successful artists of the modern rock era and has won several accolades, including a Grammy Award for Creed's song " With Arms Wide Open " and numerous RIAA certifications.

Despite the existing controversies, Kerry conceded the election the following day on November 3.

Despite its controversies and its downfall, the Synanon program is credited with curing some people of their addictions.

Despite his controversies at the club, Collymore helped Liverpool to third place in the Premier League.

Despite these controversies, Moscoe's first tenure as TTC chair was marked by several notable accomplishments.

Despite its controversies, the album was a commercial success becoming the band's fourth top twenty hit record and went gold within two months of its release.

Despite initial anti-cult controversies, the Hare Krishna movement today is viewed by the academics as " the most genuinely Hindu of all the many Indian movements in the West ".

Despite this, professional and skilled labour is fast disappearing from the country in a similar manner to East Germany before the Berlin Wall in an ironic reversal of the immigration controversies of the mid-to late 1970s in the UK.

Despite the controversies the album still charted at # 1 in Mexico along with many of its singles reaching the top spots.

Despite the legends and fiction surrounding this character, his actual career was punctuated by only a handful of skirmishes followed by a desperate quest to clear his name.

Despite the deep erosion of the valleys, the surrounding uplands show little evidence of glaciation, suggesting that the ice was thin, or at least unable to cause much erosion at these higher altitudes.

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 this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.

Despite his army's smaller size, he was able to defeat the Solomonids at the battles of Serjan and Zikr Amhara and consequently pillaged the surrounding areas.

Despite some taboos surrounding tattooing, the art continues to be popular in many parts of the world.

Despite the legal disputes surrounding this invention, it is unquestionable that Campbell was the first to actually construct a telephone circuit using loading coils.

Despite the waves of pestilence that hit Europe in the 14th century, the city continued to grow mainly due to immigration from the surrounding countryside.

Despite the fact that much of their work is discounted by the traditional French audience, Arab rappers use their work to explore issues surrounding this sense of exclusion and tensions in the community.

Despite the rarity of Prader-Willi syndrome, it has become widely-known in wider society and often depicted in popular culture, partly due to the fascination surrounding the insatiable appetite and obesity associated with the syndrome.

Despite being on the equator Uganda is more temperate than the surrounding areas due to its altitude.

Despite the league's name only its four South Division teams are actually based in Texas ; the four North Division teams are located in surrounding states of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri.

Despite 10 years of planning, Iran's own Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization was not aware of the broad areas of flooding during much of this time and there is growing concern about the effects the dam will have on Persepolis's surrounding areas.

Despite the large population surrounding the city, Imperial Beach maintains a small residential feel.

Despite designation of of wooded, scenic land surrounding the Waverly Reservoir property and encompassing Waverly Glen park, as Two Rivers State Park in 2005, a Master Plan has yet to be developed for making the property more like a state park and less like a state forest.

Despite several Confederate attempts to reclaim the town and the surrounding area, the Federals did not withdraw until after the end of the war.

Despite the boost to the local economy, Salt Lake and the surrounding communities did not appreciate the huge military presence and tried to limit soldiers to the area around the base.

Despite numerous official and unofficial name changes over the history of the stadium and surrounding park / facilities, the stadium has been lovingly referred to as " the Stick " by many locals and die-hard fans since its original titling of Candlestick Park in 1960.

Despite the controversy surrounding Winchell, his popularity allowed him to leverage support for causes that he valued.

A false-color satellite image of Lava Beds National Monument and the surrounding area (: Image: LavaBedsNatlMnmt L7 14jun01. jpg | more information ). Despite harsh, semi-arid conditions, native wildlife has adapted to the environmental constraints present in the region.

Despite common trends among all urban centers, the surrounding local environment heavily influences much of the climate.

The amended Autonomy Statute of Catalonia has also been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community Despite these changes having been proposed and approved by fellow members of the PSOE, former Finance Minister Pedro Solbes disagreed with this new trend of assigning state investment quotas to territories based on any given autonomous community custom requirement and has subsequently compared the task of planning the Spanish national budget to a sudoku.

Despite repeated German counterattacks slowing its advance, the 1st Infantry Division was able to capture the high ground surrounding the city.