Despite repeated dynastic change in China, the title of Duke Yansheng was bestowed upon successive generations of descendants until it was abolished by the Nationalist Government in 1935.

Despite their numerical superiority they failed to defeat Edzard, and in 1517 the emperor had to accept Edzard and his descendants as counts of East Frisia.

Despite this, the Qur ' an states that Abraham in his later years prayed to God to forgive the sins of all his descendants and his parents.

Despite the massive seppuku of the Hōjō clan, the Hōjō clan subsisted by the sacrifice of Fūma shinobi clan turning attention on itself to save some descendants.

Despite this exile, his son Toshisue survived, and was moved to the Miharu Domain, in Mutsu Province, where his descendants remained in power until the Meiji Restoration.

Despite this measure, factors such as a growing population, the division of plots among descendants, peasant debts and enduring reliance on revenues from working on estates, together with the widespread speculation of estate leaseholders and instances where political corruption was detrimental to the allocation of land, made the reform almost completely ineffectual on the long term, and contributed to the countryside unrest which culminated in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1907.

Despite the fact that his descendants eventually lost power over Silla, the fact that he founded it remained under high respects and great consideration.

Despite prior connections to Aizu, his descendants dispute that he served as a spy.

Despite the general world distrust of Booster, Rip Hunter and his future descendants are implied to know the truth, always honoring Booster Gold for his sacrifices.

Despite the fact that descendants of the early Italian immigrants have moved away, many return each summer for the feast.

Despite the hemoglobin-less mutants being less fit, the lack of competition allowed even the mutants to leave descendants that colonized empty habitats and evolved compensations for their mutations.

Despite this, the majority of Bubi descendants, both living in Equatorial Guinea and exiles abroad, hold little political and economic stake in their native land.

Despite internal fighting amongst Kara Yusuf's descendants after his death in 1420, and the increasing threat of the Timurids, the Black Sheep Turkomans maintained a strong grip over the areas they controlled.

Despite their willing conversion to Christianity, the Slavic language was spoken by the descendants of the Drevani in the area of the lower Elbe until the early 18th century.

Despite the wish that it went to his natural daughter, one of the reasons why he accepted it, his title passed on to the descendants of his brother Alexandre José da Silva de Almeida Garrett ( August 7, 1797 – October 24, 1847 ), Fidalgo of the Royal Household, who ironically was a partisan of King Michael of Portugal for all his life, and wife ( m. June 16, 1822 ) Angélica Isabel Cardoso Guimarães ( February 2, 1803 –).

Despite being lost to the Wyvernspur family's lore, he continues to watch over the descendants of his brother.

Despite having kept some ties with their traditional culture, Sino-Mauritians do not identify to the mainland Chinese culture per se, probably due to the high " Mauritianism " and very strong Mauritian identity in the country As Lemon Lau said in her study supervised by Hong Kong University on Sino-Mauritian identity, " Contrary to what could be observed in the U. S., when ones who looked like Chinese descendants being asked if they are Chinese, they would never give an asserting reply but they would rather say they were Mauritian.

Despite possessing such advantages, he was defeated by Yohken Asakura, one of his descendants, and Matamune, who reluctantly put aside his love and loyalty for Hao for the sake of saving the world.

Despite of this, in the 30 of that century, the Canarian government put the number of canarian and descendants of them in that country by about 80, 000 people.

Despite self-confessed lack of vocal talent, he released horror-themed singles during the early to mid -' 60s, the most popular " Jack the Ripper ", covered live and on record by garage rock bands including the White Stripes, the Gruesomes, the Black Lips and the Horrors for their debut LP.

Despite this, James continued to retain Black Douglas support allowing him to begin a campaign of political alienation of Albany and his family.

Despite these concerns, small numbers of Black Bermudians have chosen to describe themselves on census returns as mixed-racial, and the Native American demographic, which had disappeared for centuries, is slowly re-emerging, as more Bermudians-especially on St. David's Island-choose to identify to some degree, if not exclusively, with their Native American ancestry ( although many may feel that, in an increasingly polarised climate, this is a safer option than identifying themselves as in any way White, or European ).

Despite 1984-85 being the most fruitful period for the band and their record label, Ginn and Rollins would ultimately decide to eject Roessler from Black Flag, citing erratic behavior.

Despite this apparent conflict of interest, Black lobbied the Court for a per curiam denial of the petition.

Despite the close proximity, many inhabitants of the Black Country resist hints at any relationship to people living in Birmingham, which may be called " Brum-a-jum " ( Birmingham's colloquial name is Brummagem, a corruption of its older name of Bromwichamand hence West Bromwich ) or Birminam ( missing the g and h out and saying it the way it's spelt ).

Despite the Conservatives ' surprise victory in the April 1992 general election, for these reasons, the ERM policy proved increasingly unsustainable and collapsed on Black Wednesday, when Lamont was forced to withdraw the pound from the ERM despite assuring the public that he would not do so just a week earlier.

Despite Black Mask's critical and commercial popularity, Shaw was eventually fired from the magazine.

Despite the loss of an arm, he returned to the Army and was present at Champion Hill, Big Black River Bridge on the Big Black River and in the siege of Vicksburg.

Despite a joint Federal and State government plan to save it, since the 1980s, the Leadbeater's possum population halved to around 2000 even before the Black Saturday fires.

Despite its name, NBPP is not an official successor to the Black Panther Party.

Despite stringent security measures at Hogwarts, Harry is confronted by Black at the end of his third year of schooling, and Harry learns that Black was framed and is actually Harry's godfather.

Despite almost no experience, she wrote, produced, and narrated " Blacks, Blues, Black!

Despite its being banned, Coal Black is a popular draw at film festivals and small-audience screenings, and is often bootlegged for release on home video.

Despite that " Monguor " was made into an international name for the " Tu ," it is not representative: the reference is only used by the Monguor in Huzhu and Datong counties in Qinghai, and when used, it should be combined with " Chaghan " ( or " White ") in order to be distinguished from the " Khara " ( or " Black ") Mongols.

Despite occasional spontaneous episodes of pogroms and killings, as during the Black Death, Poland was a relatively tolerant home for the Jews in the medieval period.

Despite being heavily suppressed during the last two centuries of the history of China, from the Taiping Movement to the Cultural Revolution, it is now experiencing a revival and is supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China, particularly in the forms of Mazuism in southern China ( officially, about 160 million Chinese are Mazuists ), Huangdi worship, Black Dragon worship in Shaanxi, and Caishen worship.

Despite fighting with fanatical courage in the engagements at Phu Sa on 14 December and Son Tay on 16 December, the Black Flags were unable to prevent the French from storming Son Tay.

" Despite the group's engagement in violence, Rush nonetheless worked on several non-violent projects that built support for the Black Panthers in African-American communities, such as coordinating a medical clinic which offered sickle-cell anemia testing on an unprecedented scale.

Despite Russia's vast size, most of its thousands of miles of seacoast was frozen over most of the year, or access to the high seas was through straits controlled by other powers, particularly in the Baltic and Black Seas.

Despite this warning, he used the cracked morpher to become the Black Power Ranger once again and help Carlos in his battle against LizWizard when Carlos was attacked without his own morpher.

Despite flowing goals from Clive Mendonca, notably good performances from John Oster and newcomer Kingsley Black, Grimsby failed to save themselves.