Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

Despite his acquittal, Hume failed to gain the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite the lesser radio play and popularity, some nu metal bands still gain commercial success.

Despite being rejected from the VFL in both 1896 and 1907, North persisted in trying to gain admission into the League.

Despite saving the universe on multiple occasions, he seems unable to gain any respect from society, and works as a " sanitation engineer " ( in one form or another ) throughout the series.

Despite Miami's superb offense, punter Reggie Roby still made the pro bowl, averaging 44. 7 yards per punt with a net gain average of 38. 7.

Despite the relative ease of executive agreements, the President still often chooses to pursue the formal treaty process over an executive agreement in order to gain congressional support on matters that require the Congress to pass implementing legislation or appropriate funds, and those agreements that impose long-term, complex legal obligations on the U. S.

Despite the lack of formal ownership, firms can and do gain from high levels of training, in part because it creates a corporate culture or vocabulary teams use to create cohesion.

Despite this, it is common that a driver thunk out to the real mode interrupt in order to initialize screen modes and gain direct access to a card's linear frame buffer, because these tasks would otherwise require handling many hundreds of proprietary variations that exist from card to card.

" Despite being the only nationalist candidate, he failed to gain the support of a united far-right, as the various groups either rallied behind other candidates or called for voter abstention.

Despite the loss, Philadelphia seemed to gain momentum in the process, and they would win Games Four and Five.

Despite hostile reviews from critics, Stone Temple Pilots continued to gain fans.

Despite the good result in 2006, manager Knut Tørum wasn't able to gain the same success in the 2007 season.

Despite his poor academic performance and having been arrested twice during high school, Watson was able to use his mother's connections to gain admission to Furman College in Greenville, South Carolina.

Despite his preparations and intentions to cow the Jews, Diodotus was entirely unsuccessful, and left the region under the rule of Jonathan's brother Simon, with little gain beyond a minor tribute of 100 talents.

Despite its social-democratic past, the PQ failed to gain admission into the Socialist International, after the membership application was vetoed by the federal New Democratic Party.

Despite attempts, Norris didn't receive sufficient support from Oireachtas members to gain a nomination, having been nominated by 18 members, two short of the minimum number of 20.

Despite the support of Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967, joining Ray Gunter at the Ministry of Labour.

Despite Hanna's efforts on his behalf, Ohio Senator John Sherman failed to gain the Republican nomination for president in 1884 and 1888.

Despite performance benefits, these bindings have failed to gain a significant following during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and most manufacturers have withdrawn models from production.

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 the fact that he supported Sadat's peace initiative, King Hussein refused to take part in the peace talks ; Begin offered Jordan little to gain and Hussein also feared he would isolate Jordan from the Arab world and provoke Syria and the PLO if he engaged in the peace talks as well.

Despite Magnentius ' efforts to gain Vetranio to his cause, the old general reached Constantius with his army, and resigned the crown.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

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 common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

Despite the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he became president.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite the apparent peeling on the LM's outer skin, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

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

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.