Despite the criticism, viewers were immediately drawn to the serial, won over by Coronation Streets ' ordinary ' characters.

Despite criticism by sections of academia, Thomas ' work has been embraced by readers more so than many of his contemporaries, and is one of the few modern poets whose name is recognised by the general public.

Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.

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Despite heavy criticism from other religious groups, there are signs that Satanistic beliefs have become more socially tolerated.

" Despite this criticism, the authors acknowledged that they admired Gould's staunch opposition to racism.

Despite such criticism, certain strides were made at COP12, including in the areas of support for developing countries and clean development mechanism.

Despite widespread criticism, VeriSign only reluctantly removed it after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) threatened to revoke its contract to administer the root name servers.

Despite initially attracting positive reviews and selling strongly, the record was soon subjected to strong criticism from music critics, record-buyers and even Noel Gallagher himself for its overproduced and bloated sound.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.

Despite generally positive reviews, criticism induced Jansson to refine her style such that in her 1955 solo exhibition her style had become less overloaded in terms of detail and content.

Despite this criticism, the following day, August 30, was one of Longstreet's finest performances of the war.

Despite Lee's brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, Longstreet once again came under criticism, claiming that he could have marched his men back from Suffolk in time to join Lee.

Despite this, the film was reviewed negatively by critics for its perceived amateurish production and self-indulgent content, with the fantasy sequences in particular coming in for some of the harshest criticism.

Despite his prominent position in musical criticism, he did not use his articles to promote his own works.

Despite continual criticism from her father, she becomes more rebellious toward her parents, supporting her brother against them and assisting Goole in his interrogations.

Despite the rivalry of ben Naphtali and the opposition of Saadia Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible.

Despite his failure to finish Realschule ( a form of German secondary school ), Ossietzky succeeded in embarking on a career in journalism, with the topics of his articles ranging from theatre criticism to feminism and the problems of early motorization.

Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, for the performance.

Despite the criticism, the book sold well, as did all of Irving's books to that date.

Despite such criticism, Barnet concludes: " It should be noted that Christian rock also has millions of supporters, even among the ministry.

Despite this criticism, expansionists embraced the phrase, which caught on so quickly that its origin was soon forgotten.

Despite the criticism targeting his linguistic theories and despite the priority dispute with Bartholin, Rudbeck remained a national icon in Sweden for many years.

Despite his sincerely depicted reverence for Rush, Eakins ' treatment of the human body once again drew criticism.

Despite six summer acquisitions including Milan Baroš and Kevin Phillips who added more quality to the squad, the 2005 – 06 season brought a disappointing turn for the worse for O ' Leary and his fragile relationship with fans deteriorated even further when he described them as fickle and offended supporters unfurled a banner declaring ' we're not fickle.

Despite the fact the actor closely resembled his character, studio head Jack L. Warner was unhappy with the results and complained, " You mean we're paying Muni all this dough and we can't even recognize him?

Despite Horton's claim that " we're family ," Dawson shoots him.

Despite these grand designs Domitian was determined to govern the Empire conscientiously and scrupulously.

Despite his lack of capital, Newson was determined to be successful and in 1841, at the age of 29, he moved his family and devoted wife again, this time back to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing a fine range of buildings for malting barley.

Despite this, she was still determined to make a comeback in the fashion industry.

Despite approval from the FA, the Football League determined that the club should not enter the competition, since it had not qualified.

" Despite the group's non-theistic beliefs, the court determined that the activities of the Fellowship of Humanity ',' which included weekly Sunday meetings, were analogous to the activities of theistic churches and thus entitled to an exemption.

Despite this unenviable start, Huxley was determined to educate himself.

Despite the fact that Henry's father died before he was married to Catherine, he was determined to marry her anyway and make sure that everyone knew he intended on being his own master.

Despite this fall, she was still determined to attend Margaret's funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, two days later on Friday of that week.

Despite the fact that Echeandía's emancipation plan was met with little encouragement from the novices who populated the southern missions, he was nonetheless determined to test the scheme on a large scale at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

" Despite the fact that Echeandía's emancipation plan was met with little encouragement from the neophytes who populated the southern missions, he was nonetheless determined to test the scheme on a large scale at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Despite calls to pull out, Lhadatt, already in the space capsule and determined to finish what he started, convinces the frightened and vulnerable ground crew to complete the launch.

Despite the hardships created by the nature of the Nullarbor, European settlers were determined to cross the plain.

Despite the significant functional importance of membrane proteins, the structural biology has been particularly challenging as shown by the low number of membrane protein structures determined.

Despite the daily problems, West was, according to Sextette director Ken Hughes, determined to see the film through.

Despite this, Tommy remains determined to continue assisting the other Rangers as long as possible.

Despite determined resistance from the House of Lords, this Bill gave more parliamentary power to the liberals, while reducing the political force of the working class, leaving them detached from the main body of middle class support on which they had relied.

Despite her efforts to end their threat, which even included exiling them to empty pocket-dimensions, the Dark Judges always manage to return eventually, ever determined to fulfil their mission.

Despite the Doctor's best efforts to broker a peaceful solution, the Silurians are still determined to exterminate Humanity, only to have their base destroyed by the fictional United Nations Intelligence Taskforce on the orders of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ( Nicholas Courtney ) to preempt this open threat.

Despite the fact that the tit-for-tat agents never won a match and the defectors never lost a match, the tit-for-tat strategy still came out ahead, because the final score is not determined by the number of match wins, but the total points score.

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 community-wide efforts in structural genomics, the output of experimentally determined protein structures — typically by time-consuming and relatively expensive X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy — is lagging far behind the output of protein sequences.

Despite the personal flavor of the piece -- with Couric saying how she still remembered receiving her first library card -- it was later determined that a producer had written the commentary instead of Couric, and that she had plagiarized from Zaslow's column.

Despite this, as a judge he was seen as " profound in legal erudition, patient in judicial discrimination, and of the most determined integrity ".

Despite the efforts of Mathilde, Madame de Rênal, and the priests devoted to him since his early life, Julien Sorel is determined to die — because the materialist society of Bourbon Restoration France will not accommodate a low-born man of superior intellect and æsthetic sensibility possessing neither money nor social connections.