Despite the rebuff, the party stayed within the ADOC until April 1991, when its ministerial delegation was ousted by President Guillermo Endara for displaying " disloyalty and arrogance ".

Despite this, and his own tough nature, he emerges as a man capable of displaying both compassion and a faith in the future.

" Despite the establishment of this new flag, the cross of Burgundy would still often used by colonial entities.

Despite initial enthusiasm, this flag did not obtain official legalization and disappeared five months later.

Despite the failure of the committee to solve the issue, public sentiment in the 1920s was in favour of fixing the flag problem for Canada.

Despite opposition from the local Ethnic Germans it was subsequently recognized by the Austrian Government as the official flag of Carniola.

Despite having last been used officially by the pre-Union Royal Scots Navy and merchant marine fleets in the 18th century, the flag continues to be produced by flag manufacturers and its unofficial use by private citizens on water has been observed.

Despite its unofficial and historic status the Scottish Union Flag continues to be produced by flag manufacturers, and its unofficial use by private citizens on land has been observed.

Despite this tale, it is assumed by most that the name Jolly Roger comes from the French words joli rouge, meaning " pretty red " and referring to a plain red flag which was flown to indicate that the ship would fight to the death, with no quarter given or expected.

Still flying the red flag: Despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Morning Star presses are still rolling.

Despite many political upheavals within Chad since independence, the flag has not been changed.

Despite being one of the original goals, it did not declare independency, and so neither approve the use of a national flag ; nevertheless, the flag made by Belgrano was authorized to be used as a War flag.

Despite the attempt at a neutral design to promote unity amongst the constituent communities, this flag is most often used only by the Greek Cypriots, since it is associated by the Turkish Cypriots with the Greek-dominated Republic of Cyprus.

Despite his flirt with fascism, Ahimeir was also known for his fight against Nazism, with the most visible example being his climb on the German embassy roof in Jerusalem taking off the swastika flag.

Despite this, Borchgrevink would attempt to emphasise the expedition's British character, flying the personal flag of the Duke of York and taking 500 bamboo poles with miniature Union Jacks for, as he put it, " purpose of survey and extension of the British Empire ".

Throughout his life, the press would contact his home to ask for interviews and he trained his wife and children to give excuses such as he “ was on a fishing trip in Canada .” Even during the filming of the movie the Sands of Iwo Jima in 1949, Bradley told his wife to tell the townspeople that he was “ on a business trip ” in order to avoid attention that would be drawn to him .” Despite his reluctance to talk to the media, family, and friends about the incident, he told his parents in a letter shortly after the battle that raising the flag was “ the happiest moment of my life .”

Despite the frequent appearance of this flag in modern pirate literature, no known early-Georgian period source describes any such device, much less attributes it to Bonnet.

Despite the debates that took place, for years, about the existence of this organization, it is now widely recognized in academic circles that it was a type of " false flag " invention, by the Sagasta government, in order to suppress peasant revolts in the south of Spain.

Despite Winter having successfully halted the uprising with the threat of overwhelming force, Irwin elects to hoist the flag personally.

Despite the temptations of staying on board, Hornblower reminds the Captain that he is released on parole and is returned to Spain under a flag of truce.

Despite the church team name, Vale Ocoba appeared to be a flag of convenience for the Vale of Leven Football & Athletic Club struck off the SFA's roll, as events proved.

Despite Hodges ' unwillingness to join Beasley in his opposition to flying the Confederate flag, the NAACP announced its support for Hodges.

Despite deregistering, a handful of the party's members remained active under its banner-burning the New Zealand flag at parliament in March 2010.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Despite progress since the Soviet era, the unemployment rate still hovers near 30 % and there remains a huge gulf between actual and potential Gross Domestic Product.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.

Despite movement toward democratic reform, power remains in the hands of a northern ethnic oligarchy.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

Despite this, Cadbury remains widely associated with Camelot.

Despite this competition, D & D remains a market leader in the role-playing game industry.

Despite these uncertainties, there is agreement that destruction of rainforests remains a significant environmental problem.

Despite recent improvements, with an exploding population Ethiopia remains one of the poorest nations in the world.

Despite the ape-like morphology of the bodies, H. habilis remains are often accompanied by primitive stone tools ( e. g. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Lake Turkana, Kenya ).

Despite improvements in the laws in recent years, Indonesia's intellectual property rights regime remains weak ; lack of effective enforcement is a major concern.

Despite the Soviets ' possession of Hitler's remains, Stalin did not believe that his old nemesis was actually dead, a belief that remained for years after the war.

Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century ( and the first to sell for over £ 1m ), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

Despite decades of research, where these animals go for the rest of the year remains unknown.

Despite the recent war's divisions along ethnic lines, Liberia remains a multiethnic and multicultural country.

Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology.

Despite his success, Macbeth, also aware of this part of the prophecy, remains uneasy.

Despite improvements on the economy the Republic of Moldova remains Europe's poorest nation.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Despite this, substantial remains remain visible today and it continues to be a major tourist attraction.

Despite different labeling, the function remains the same — to provide additional power for amplification of the signal.

Despite this most recent power-stripping, the President remains the ex officio chair of the National Security Council, as per the National Security Act 2004.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Despite this association with the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur, the vertebra shows no evidence that it was chewed on by the dinosaur.