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Despite this the low-floor revolution was in full swing and the Ultra attracted moderate orders from operators including Northern Ireland's Translink for its Belfast-based Citybus ( later Metro ) and Ulsterbus subsidiaries, Travel West Midlands / FirstBus subsidiary Northampton Transport-who both took gas powered examples, Ireland's Bus Átha Cliath ( Dublin Bus ), Greater Manchester-based Timeline Travel and Stagecoach's, Fife Scottish-who took a solitary example.
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Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.
Despite the popular enthusiasm that greeted the February revolution, the new government lacked a clear program.
Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.
Despite the industrial revolution slowly making weavers obsolete, McGonagall appeared to prosper, as there was still need for skilled workers to perform tasks of great complexity.
Despite the fact that many, like Stalin, saw Trotsky's role in the October 1917 Russian revolution as central, Trotsky says that without Lenin and the Bolshevik party the October revolution of 1917 would not have taken place.
Despite the military defeat suffered by the Republicans and a loss of manpower and weaponry that would severely hamper Republican forces for the rest of the revolution, the battle and defence mounted by the Indonesians galvanised the nation in support of independence and helped garner international attention.
Despite this, relations with the USSR didn't really fall off until the Cultural Revolution and China continued to send representatives to the anniversary celebration of the 1917 revolution up to 1966.
Despite one of the major goals of the revolution being to join the pan-Arabism movement and practice qawmiyah policies, Qasim soon modified his views, once in power.
Despite declaring inspiration from Marx, Bevan did not visibly support insurrectionist concepts of proletarian revolution, or the Leninist organisational model of democratic centralism typical of many Communist parties.
Despite this, he was considered by some to be one of the reformers of the Church and one of the founders of the ideals of the French revolution and socialism.
Despite the anxieties of his family, he spent a year touring France, gripped in its bloody revolution.
Despite right-wing backing for his candidacy, Frei declared his planned social revolution would not be hampered by this support.
Despite later name changes and pressures of the Russian revolution, the present day Mariinsky Ballet is still linked to the school, which is now known as the Vaganova Ballet Academy.
Despite the populist rhetoric of the " father of the poor ", the gaúcho Vargas was ushered into power by planter oligarchies of peripheral regions amid a revolution from above, and was thus in no position to truly meet substantive popular demands.
Despite Lenin's declarations that " the workers must demand the immediate establishment of genuine control, to be exercised by the workers themselves ", on May 30, the Menshevik minister of labor, Skobolev, pledged to not give the control of industry to the workers but instead to the state: " The transfer of enterprises into the hands of the people will not at the present time assist the revolution [...] The regulation and control of industry is not a matter for a particular class.
Despite its many limitations ( compared to later methods it is inaccurate ; it can only be used on organic matter ; it is reliant on a dataset to corroborate it ; and it only works with remains from the last 10, 000 years ), the technique brought about a revolution in archaeological understanding.
Despite the importance of Liniers himself, and his prestige as a popular hero for his role when the British invaded, the population of Córdoba preferred to support the revolution.
Despite his support for the revolution, the duke was executed because of his royal blood ( he was descended from Louis XIII ).
Despite hopes the revolution would bring democratic change to Kyrgyzstan, subsequent years have seen the murder of several prominent politicians, prison riots, economic ills and battles for control of lucrative businesses.
Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through a montage effect.
Despite this, and even as Castro's rebels began to overthrow Havana two years later, Trafficante was heard to insist that the revolution was, " a temporary storm " that would " blow over.
Despite the latter not being fully produced by Simenon, it would follow the same urban template, pre-dating the American hip-hop revolution to come.
Despite governmental recognition, Carrillo didn't receive economic support for his musical revolution.
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Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.
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 successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.
Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.
Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.
Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.
Despite the warning, there was a unanimous vote to enter a candidate, according to Republicans who attended.
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 efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.
Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward.
( 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 popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.
Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.
Despite his lack of formal qualifications, Ampère was appointed a professor of mathematics at the school in 1809.
Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.
Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.
Despite Frankish advances in the years that followed, Alaric was not afraid to take the military initiative when it presented itself.
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 Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.
Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.
Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.
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