Despite entering December with a record of 8 – 3, Dallas lost its slim grip on 1st place in the division with losses to the New York Giants and San Diego.

Despite a catastrophic loss of gliders and troops loads at sea, the 1st Airlanding Brigade captured the Ponte Grande bridge south of Syracuse.

Despite the grueling schedule, the Heat emphatically lived up to expectations during the 50-game season, claiming the 1st seed in the East just as they were favored to.

Despite his elevated status, Richard Plantagenet was denied a position in government by the advisers of the weak Henry VI, particularly John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and the queen consort, Margaret of Anjou.

Despite this written requirement, the possibility exists that the filibuster could be changed by majority vote, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March, using the so-called nuclear option, also sometimes called the constitutional option by proponents.

Despite the brief descriptions of him, Enoch is one of the main two focal points for much of the 1st millennium BC Jewish mysticism, notably in the Book of Enoch.

Speaking on this measure in the House of Lords, Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough said " I trust your Lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property …" Despite a brilliant speech by Romilly, all Bills were defeated.

Despite their chances of progression being written off by press on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border, Celtic defeated Liverpool 3 – 1 on aggregate with Larsson scoring the opener in a 1 – 1 1st leg draw followed by a 2 – 0 Celtic victory at Anfield.

Despite repeated German counterattacks slowing its advance, the 1st Infantry Division was able to capture the high ground surrounding the city.

Despite attempts to explain some phonetic changes by the action of a Gaulish substratum, only one of them is sure, because this fact is clearly attested in the Gaulish language epigraphy, e. g.: on the potteries of la Graufesenque ( 1st c. AD ), there is the Latin word ( from Greek ) written paraxsid-i instead of paropsid-es.

Despite constant illness, he produced a large amount of music, including important works such as the Second ( 1980 ) and Third ( 1983 ) String Quartets and the String Trio ( 1985 ); the Faust Cantata ( 1983 ), which he later incorporated in his opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten ; the ballet Peer Gynt ( 1985 – 1987 ); the Third ( 1981 ), Fourth ( 1984 ) and Fifth ( 1988 ) Symphonies ( the last of which is also known as the Fourth Concerto Grosso ) and the Viola ( 1985 ) and 1st Cello ( 1985 – 1986 ) concertos.

Despite the success demonstrated by the exercise, it would be the last time that the division mounted something similar the national service scheme was modified to limit the size of each yearly intake of trainees and the size of the CMF was reduced by over 30, 000 men in an effort to free up Regular personnel to raise the 1st Brigade.

Despite the awareness of German 8th Army's staff that an attack was imminent, they were surprised by the appearance of the 1st Ukrainian Front's newly formed 6th Tank Army.

Despite the fact that the 1st Panzer Division had captured a bridge, and engineers had erected another, the panicking men saw the river as their only escape from the rampaging T-34s.

Despite the text's claim to have been a first-hand account of King Solomon's construction of the Temple of Jerusalem, its original publication dates sometime between the 1st and 5th centuries CE, over a thousand years after King Solomon's death and the temple's completion.

Despite the victory, due to overwhelming Germans number, as well as the retreat of the French, the British had to withdraw from Mons which the 1st Battalion took part in.

Despite leading the 1st leg in Tranmere 3 – 0, Shelbourne were beaten 5 – 3 and later beaten 2 – 0 in the second leg.

Despite being a biopic of Elizabeth's life and reign, the series presented its main character with particular interest in several themes, most notably the emotional impact of her mother's execution and her love for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

* 1985 SCCA Nelson Ledges 24 Hour Race 1st, Despite heavy rollover crash damage.

Despite coming under fire themselves, the guns from the Australian and New Zealand batteries of the 1st Field Regiment, RAA were quickly brought into action, commencing a counter-battery mission at 02: 50, just seven minutes after the initial attack.

Despite the initial success, the Australian casualties had been heavy and the 1st Battalion was ordered forward in preparation for the expected Turkish counter-attack.

Despite the pleas of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln ordered Hunter to disband the black 1st South Carolina Regiment and to retract his proclamation.

Despite secular Chinese histories dating the introduction of Buddhism in the 1st century, some apocryphal Buddhist texts and traditions claim earlier dates in the Qin Dynasty ( 221-206 BCE ) or Former Han Dynasty ( 208 BCE-9 CE ).

Despite " 1st " in the title, the regiment is not the most senior armoured unit.

Despite her one year hiatus from the music scene, the album charted at # 10 on the 1st day of release.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite the legal usage of the Old Ruthenian language ( the predecessor of both modern Belarusian and Ukrainian languages ) which was used as a chancellery language in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the literature was mostly non-existent, outside of several chronicles.

" Despite the desertions in March and April 1943, the auxiliary Police remained heavily Ukrainian, and Ukrainians serving the Nazis continued pacifications of Polish and other villages.

Despite orders by the Polish government not to harm civilians, Home Army partisans retaliated against the massacre of Poles by burning down Ukrainian villages and killing ethnic Ukrainians whom they encountered on Volhynian roads.

Despite supply difficulties, 2nd Ukrainian Front units were able to close on Korsun by February 10, collapsing the area of the pocket to six by seven miles.

Despite a remarkable post-war recovery and a healthier economy, Kremenchuk lacks much of the architectural charm and distinctly Ukrainian ( rather than Russian ) character of its sister city, the oblast capital of Poltava.

Despite the fact about many similarities, one respect in which Lesya and her father were different is that her father had a gift for mathematics, but no gift for languages, on the contrary, Lesya had no gift for mathematics, but she knew English, German, French, Italian, Greek, Latin, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, and her native Ukrainian.

Despite the increasingly negative portrayal of Jews, for all of its glorification of violence Ukrainian nationalist literature generally showed little interest in Nazi-like antisemitism during the 1930s.

Despite the political instability in Ukraine in the late 1600s, it had 13 printing presses, of which 9 were Ukrainian, 3 Polish, and 1 Jewish.

Despite initial gains, the 1st Ukrainian Front finally managed to halt the German attack, with the help of the 2nd Air Army which dropped 17, 200 bombs on the attacking panzers.

Despite several desperate attacks by the exhausted and under strength forces of XLVIII Panzer Corps and XXIV Panzer Corps, the 1st Ukrainian Front cordon continued to tighten.

Despite tsarist and soviet repression, Ukrainian authors were able to produce a rich literary heritage.

Despite the Russian cultural dominance in the city, enthusiasts among ethnic Ukrainian nobles, military and merchants made recurrent attempts to preserve native culture in Kiev ( by clandestine book-printing, amateur theater, folk studies etc.

Despite the emergence of the Popular Front and the Supreme Soviet as a new lawmaking body, since 1989 the different segments of the indigenous Estonian population had been politically mobilized by different and competing actors.

Despite its successes, there were problems: Front de libération du Québec militants had initially threatened to disrupt the exhibition, but were inactive during this period.

Despite estimates that the Germans could land up to 170, 000 men, he thought an invasion unlikely unless the Germans had first won on the Western Front, and favoured fighting on the coast rather than a strong central reserve.

Despite the seizure of his computer equipment ; searches of his business, person, and home ; grand jury investigations ; FBI and ATF questioning ; facing years in prison and hundreds of death threats ; he did not reveal the identities of members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front movements.

Despite this, the arrondissement elected and was represented by the anti-immigration Front National politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, as a municipal councilor from 1983 to 1989.

Despite its short life, the Popular Front government passed much important legislation, including the 40-hour week, paid holidays for the workers, collective bargaining on wage claims and the nationalisation of the arms industry.

Despite this fact, Popular Front of Azerbaijan was established and Yurd became an integral part of this movement.

Despite his initial support for Tyndall, Verrall did not follow him into the New National Front and indeed was appointed Deputy Chairman of the NF by Andrew Brons in 1980.

Despite its relatively brief service career, the SVT was a prolific weapon on the Eastern Front during World War II, and it had considerable impact on European battle rifle designs during and immediately after the war.

Despite having briefly retired from public life in 1928 after holding a series of political posts, Groza reemerged on the political scene in 1933, founding a peasant-based political organization, the Ploughmen's Front.

Despite being out of the Commons Lee remained active politically, trying to secure British support for the Spanish Popular Front government under threat from Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Despite having reached the Western Front after the Armistice, Taylor's casket was draped with a Union Jack and buried with full military honours.

Despite this defeat, local groups still seek either to become part of Somalia or independence, frequently resorting to violence ; one such action, the 2007 Abole oil field raid, has led to a series of military reprisals against civilians accused of supporting the Ogaden National Liberation Front.

Despite the Front's malicious motives, Dani secretly works against them, working with Cable to turn Feral over to law enforcement authorities for past crimes, sabotaging a mission in China, and harboring a resentment towards members of the Front, aside from Forearm, with whom she develops a genuine friendship.

Despite the fact that the Botswana National Front ( BNF ), Botswana Alliance Movement ( BAM ) and Botswana Peoples Party ( BPP ), entered into an election pact agreement in 2003, campaigns were marked by open personal attacks between the opposition parties and their respective leaders.

Despite receiving 22. 2 % of the vote, the party failed to win any seats, whilst the United Labour Front ( which had received 15. 2 % of the vote ) won ten seats.

Despite this modest divisional command, Scherer was to be in the right place at the right time to find fame in one of the most dramatic actions of the winter crisis of 1941 on the Eastern Front.

Despite its western end being on the continental divide itself, Route 14 through Cameron Pass can be one of the more reliable routes across the Front Range mountains in stormy winter weather.

Despite the large losses suffered, it was still regarded as one of the strongest divisions of the Western Front.

Despite these moderate demands, the Shah refused to cooperate and opted to outlaw the Front and imprison the most prominent liberals.