Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite mission replanning necessitated by Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s abort to orbit trajectory, the Spacelab mission was declared a success.

Despite Kitna's success, Palmer was promoted to starting quarterback the following season.

Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.

Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite its success, Enniskillen was not chosen as a World Cup Stop for 2008.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.

Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Despite this tragedy the railway was a resounding success.

Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

" Despite his success in an " A movie ," Bogart received a tepid twenty-six week contract at $ 550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of " B movie " crime dramas.

Despite the economic crisis and the budget cutbacks announced by the Dutch government for the period up to 2014, the university has set itself an ambitious strategic vision for the period up to 2020.

Despite a request from the Burritos that the remnants of their publicity budget be diverted to promotion of the single, it also flopped.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

Despite these promises, Askin and the new Country Party Leader, Charles Cutler, lost the election to Heffron, mainly due to the adverse reactions of voters towards the November 1960 " horror budget " and credit squeeze made by the federal Liberal government of Robert Menzies.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

Despite its expensive budget, Noah's Ark was profitable.

" Despite Spielberg's support, DreamWorks and Mendes fought constantly over the schedule and budget — although the studio interfered little with the film's content.

Despite his penchant for coming in " under budget ," Capra spent an additional five shooting days in multiple takes, testing angles and " new " perspectives, treating the production as a type of workshop exercise.

Despite this seeming approval, the financiers only approved a production budget of $ 6 million, forcing the crew to hire most of the cast playing the Hickory basketball team and many of the extras from the local community around New Richmond.

Despite the small budget, dire predictions, and little help from distributor Orion Pictures, Hoosiers grossed over $ 28 million and received two Oscar nominations ( Dennis Hopper for Best Supporting Actor and Jerry Goldsmith for Best Original Score ).< ref >

Despite the problems during filming, Spielberg was able to complete Temple of Doom on schedule and on budget, finishing principal photography on August 26.

Despite the show's minuscule budget, Countdowns original director Paul Drane was able to create several memorable music videos especially for the show, including the classic film-clips for the AC / DC hits " It's A Long Way To The Top " and " Jailbreak ".

Despite receiving financing from other sources, including Saul Zaentz ( who agreed to distribute the soundtrack album on his Fantasy Records label ), the budget was tight enough to exclude pencil tests, so Bakshi had to test the animation by flipping an animator's drawings in his hand before they were inked and painted.

) Despite going over budget, Cimino was not financially penalized because he had a contract with United Artists to the effect that all money spent " to complete and deliver the picture in time for a Christmas 1979 release shall not be treated as overbudget expenditures.

Despite an over $ 100 million budget, the film earned only $ 7. 6 million in its opening weekend, leading the Los Angeles Times to call it " one of the year's biggest flops ".

Despite this honor, it is one of several schools targeted for closure as a result of Governor Jon Corzine's efforts to balance the state budget.

Despite departing under a cloud, Lamont defends his budget record to this day.

Despite the high budgets that came from the series — triple the budget of typical Popeye one-reelers — Superman became the most successful cartoons in the late period of the studio.

Despite its modest budget, Trafic was still very much a Tati film, carefully staged and choreographed in its scenes and effects.

Despite the negative critical ratings, the film was a box office success, grossing over $ 160 million worldwide based on a $ 60 million budget.

Despite the positive acclaim, The Rundown was a slight box office failure, grossing just under $ 81 million worldwide compared to its $ 85 million budget, which makes a sequel not entirely likely.

Despite its current $ 80. 6 billion in revenue, Pemex pays high taxes that contribute a large portion of the budget of the federal government.

The amended Autonomy Statute of Catalonia has also been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community Despite these changes having been proposed and approved by fellow members of the PSOE, former Finance Minister Pedro Solbes disagreed with this new trend of assigning state investment quotas to territories based on any given autonomous community custom requirement and has subsequently compared the task of planning the Spanish national budget to a sudoku.

Despite this agreement, the Centre Party rejected the budget and Bismarck called new elections.