Despite this, Caligula relentlessly tormented his uncle: playing practical jokes, charging him enormous sums of money, humiliating him before the Senate, and the like.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was never captured nor betrayed.

Despite the enormous resources invested by the UK into security sector reform in Sierra Leone, there are continuing financial pressures.

Despite of all this, the VOC in 1780 remained an enormous operation.

Despite the enormous costs and increase in city powers ( opposed by many ) nearly all cities in the developed world instituted good water and sewage treatment facilities.

Despite the enormous impact of the Watergate scandal, the actual purpose of the break-in of the DNC offices has never been conclusively established.

Despite sustainining enormous casualties, the Serbian army managed to recover, regrouped and returned to the Macedonian front to lead a final breakthrough through enemy lines on 15 September 1918, liberating Serbia and defeating the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Bulgaria.

Despite having a reputation of being an enormous flop, it was actually very successful in certain parts of the country.

Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Despite enormous public demand, Plant declined a $ 200 million offer to tour with Led Zeppelin after the 2007 show.

Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records.

Despite enormous career success, Dalida ’ s private life was marred by a series of failed relationships and personal problems.

Despite the enormous losses of the disastrous 1940 – 1942 period, known to the Germans as the " First " and " Second Happy Time ", the Air Ministry refused to invest in trade defence.

Despite enormous difficulties ASCOM was able to finish numerous projects on time and some ahead of schedule.

Despite enormous differences in size, the various species of cat are quite similar in both structure and behavior, with the exception of the cheetah, which is significantly different from any of the big or small cats.

Despite providing an enormous gain in worker productivity, the Chinese spinning wheel fell into disuse over the subsequent centuries and was completely unknown by the 17th century, whereas the mechanical automation of spinning in Europe in the 18th century ( from manual spinning wheel precursors of the 13th century ultimately sourced from Asia Minor ) led directly to a process of technical refinement and engineering improvements that resulted in the Industrial Revolution and widespread mechanization of production of goods beyond yarn.

Despite possessing, this engine could not be turbo-supercharged and Republic finally modified the design again, this time to accommodate the enormous Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, which produced.

Despite the high prevalence of English literature on medical anthropology there is an enormous quantity of medical anthropological research available in other languages, in books, or chapters of books and also in periodicals.

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 this, Gernsback had an enormous impact on the field: the creation of a specialist magazine for science fiction spawned an entire genre publishing industry.

Despite being an enormous success at the box office, the film was initially panned by many critics: one indicated that the dogs had " the dimensions of hippos ," another that " the artists ' work is below par ".

Despite initial criticisms of the perceived Disneyfication of the museum, its enormous costs, unique architecture, and unfinished exhibits from many quarters ( including the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney ), the museum soon became a major tourist attraction and was embraced by different political factions as a national symbol of " a pluralistic, multicultural society.

Despite the very low quantity, the quality of cassava root protein is fairly good in terms of essential amino acids.

Despite sales figures, the quantity of unsold merchandise, coupled with the expensive movie license and the large amount of returns, made E. T.

Despite its name, in the present discussion it is a quantity with the dimensions of energy.

" Despite this, a quantity of apparently Romano-British pottery has been unearthed on the site, as has a Roman-style drawstring leather purse containing ten low denomination Roman coins, dating between the reigns of Tetricus I ( 270-272 CE ) and Constantius II ( 337-361 ).

Despite multiple problems, the building of the Huddersfield Narrow canal showed that the technique of quantity surveying had advanced greatly.

Despite the apparent size of shipment, the total quantity of pure heavy water was limited, with most barrels only containing between 1 / 2 – 1 % pure heavy water, confirming the success of the Operation Gunnerside raid in destroying the higher purity heavy water.

Despite the reduction in the cross-sectional area of the aqueduct caused by these deposits, the aqueduct was still able to provide the necessary quantity of water for Cologne.

Despite surprises about the quantity and distribution of genes, genetic determinism remains the standard model.

Despite the great quantity and excellent quality of the fossil material, Plateosaurus was for a long time one of the most misunderstood dinosaurs.

Despite high expectations for on line retail sales, individual item and small quantity handling and transportation costs more than offset the savings of not having to maintain " bricks and mortar " stores.

Despite the area's rich ore deposits, investment in mining in the Neihart region remained low because it was too expensive to get ore out.

Despite government-led efforts to regenerate Toxteth after the 1981 riots, few of the area's problems appeared to have improved by 1991, by which time joyriding had also become a serious problem ; on 30 October that year, a 12-year-old was killed by a speeding stolen car on Granby Street, seriously injuring a nine-year-old who died in hospital from his injuries six days later.

Despite the region's troubled early years in the Soviet Union, it gradually began to recover with much of the area's infrastructure rebuilt and improved.

Despite the area's recognition as a World Heritage site, attempts at extracting gold are being actively lobbied by the Head of the Republic and Komi's Ministry of Nature.

Despite its up-and-down history, the station spawned two of the area's major television stations and had some very innovative and unusual periods in its history.

Despite his bad relations with the Talcotts, Mack seemed to realize that the area's future was with Talcott's settlement.

Despite the loss of many of area's oldest buildings, portions of the neighborhood away from the flood wall were largely untouched by urban renewal, and retain a great number of pre-Civil War buildings.

Despite the growth in population, and the resulting increase in traffic, there has been little done to improve the area's infrastructure.

Despite a stronger signal and wealthier ownership, WHNS was beaten out by WAXA to become the area's Fox affiliate in 1986.