Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

) Despite the general avoidance of the Imperatorial era, he penned a defense of Cicero against the charges of Asinius Gallus.

Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

Despite his admiration and defense for religions like Christianity, he is said to be an agnostic.

Despite a tendency of American perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law.

Despite an impressive defense, the team struggled offensively.

Despite this, the drug has a long history of safe use, making it one of the more popular anti-convulsants prescribed by doctors, and a common " first line of defense " in seizure cases.

Despite the realization that he could not risk annihilation of the Chinese army in a futile defense of the capital, Chiang was also well aware of the political damage he would suffer if he abandoned Nanking without a fight.

Despite Cutler's defense and critiques about the prosecution's performance, according to mob writers Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, when the jury's deliberations began a majority were in favor of convicting Gotti.

Despite the second setback, by mid-January Karzai had 14 out of the 24 ministers confirmed, including the most powerful posts at foreign, defense and interior ministries.

Despite Marshal Davout's suggestion of a maneuver to outflank the weak Russian left, the Emperor instead ordered Davout's First Corps to move directly forward into the teeth of the defense, while the flanking maneuver was left to the weak Fifth Corps of Prince Poniatowski.

Despite winning the first 2 games against Croatia ( 1 – 0 ) and Australia ( 2 – 0 ), the " Magic Square " didn't seem to work as expected and struggled to beat the opponents ' defense.

Despite Downey's lawyer, John Stewart Holden, assembling for his client's 1999 defense the same team of lawyers that successfully defended O. J.

Despite such, the defense has been successful roughly 1 out of 6 times it has been used from 1970 to 2003.

Despite this legal precedent, the availability of the abuse defense has been criticized by several legal experts, particularly in the aftermath of the trials of Lorena Bobbitt and the Menendez brothers.

Despite Williams ' innovations and his defense of education for the masses, the State Board of Education saw Williams ' curriculum as elitist.

Despite a desperate defense by crossbowmen, more than 50 Portuguese were killed.

Despite his wound, Brown had helped maintain troop morale throughout the siege, thus contributing to the success of the defense of the Fort.

Despite desperate defense operations, the County fell and was merged with Qalawun's empire.

Despite a defense organized by Walter Skinner with numerous witnesses, the judges sentence Mulder to death.

Despite his success on the field, Bell had a love-hate relationship with fans in Toronto, particularly in his later years as his poor defense came to overshadow his bat.

Despite his defense of King's as an evangelical institution, the first person Olasky hired at King ’ s was Anne Hendershott, a popular sociology professor and a practicing Roman Catholic.

Despite its defense of the status quo, especially the interests of rural elites, the Sangkum was not an exclusively right-wing organization.

Despite initial opposition from Army leaders, who still hoped that Guadalcanal could eventually be retaken from the Allies, on 31 December 1942 the Imperial General Headquarters, with approval from the Emperor, agreed to evacuate of all Japanese forces from the island and establish a new line of defense for the Solomons on New Georgia.

Despite their larger numbers, they were not centralized enough to mount a united defense and were unable to withstand the Iroquois.

Despite, and certainly to some extent because of, this bloodbath, the Liu Song produced much great poetry ( shi 詩 ) and other poetic genres, notably the rhapsody, fu 賦.

Despite the rather poetic homage paid to it in the 1968 song, MacArthur Park became known for violence after 1985 when drug-dealing, shoot-outs and the occasional rumored drowning became commonplace, with as many as 30 murders in 1990.

Despite his failure in politics, Cao Zhi was hailed as one of the representatives of the poetic style of his time, together with his father Cao Cao, his elder brother Cao Pi and several other poets.

" Despite the brevity of his poetic career and output, Ransom won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1951.

Despite its emphasis on contemporary poets, the Shin Kokinshū covered a broader range of poetic ages than the Kokinshū, including ancient poems that the editors of the first anthology had deliberately excluded.

Despite their frequent clashes, Ocvirk would later become the editor of Kosovel's " Collected Works ", from the first edition of which he however omitted the most provocative and daring poetic attempts.

" Despite these poetic descriptions, Bentley brought a highly objective eye to his work, similar to the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt ( 1865 – 1932 ) who photographed seeds, seed pods, and foliage.

Despite being told to leave poetic language aside and concentrate on graphic, sexually explicit scenarios, Nin was able to give these stories a literary flourish and a layer of images and ideas beyond the pornographic.

Despite the relative success of his third book of verse, Berryman's great poetic breakthrough occurred after he published 77 Dream Songs in 1964.

Despite this remarkable achievement, the Gatling's weight and cumbersome artillery carriage hindered their ability to keep up with infantry forces over difficult ground, particularly in Cuba, where roads were often little more than jungle footpaths.

Despite continued dependence on English goodwill, William's reign showed much achievement.

Despite his achievement, Verner considered himself only an amateur of German philology.

Despite this high achievement, however, the District is not considered by the state to have achieved Annual Yearly Progress in the 2007-2008 school year.

Despite the bloodshed and warfare the Regency was also a period of great refinement and cultural achievement, shaping and altering the societal structure of Britain as a whole.

Despite this achievement Canseco later called his Yankees tenure " the worst time of life " due to receiving limited playing time.

Despite research showing almost no relation between growth and the achievement of the goals 2 to 7 and statistics showing that during periods of growth poverty levels in some cases have actually risen ( e. g. Uganda grew by 2. 5 % annually between 2000 – 2003, yet poverty levels rose by 3. 8 %), researchers at the ODI suggest growth is necessary, but that it must be equitable.

Despite the bitter disagreements on design and engines, the 247 was still a remarkable achievement and was Boeing's showcase exhibit at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Despite differing opinions about the onset of self-concept development, researchers agree on the importance of one ’ s self-concept, influencing people ’ s behaviours and cognitive and emotional outcomes including ( but not limited to ) academic achievement, levels of happiness, anxiety, social integration, self-esteem, and life-satisfaction.

Despite this achievement, the CED system fell victim to poor planning, conflicts within RCA, and technical difficulties that stalled production of the system for 17 years until 1981, by which time it was outmoded by the DiscoVision ( Laserdisc ) and emerging Betamax and VHS videocassette formats.

Despite his illustrious career, he would forever claim that his greatest achievement was the catching of a shark weighing, with rod and reel, off Port Lincoln!

Gammoudi first came to international attention at the 1963 Mediterranean Games in Naples, where he won the 5000 m and 10 000 m. Despite that achievement, Gammoudi was still virtually unknown when he arrived at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Despite his decreased work load, Kaat won another Emmy for on-air achievement in 2006.

Despite lacking a parliamentary majority, the First Labour Government was able to introduce a number of measures which made life more tolerable for working people. The main achievement of the government was the 1924 Wheatley Housing Act, which MacDonald dubbed ' our most important legislative item '.

Despite his active life and important role in European history, Peter's greatest achievement is his contribution to the reappraisal of the Church ’ s relations with the religion of Islam.

Despite the short length, the canyon presented a formidable obstacle for the railroad, and the building of the line through it was considered a monumental engineering achievement in its day.

Despite these obstacles the FDC won over 30 % of the vote, a major achievement for a party that was hardly a year old.