Despite the fears of those who knew him that this tragedy would send him back to drinking, he remained sober.

Despite this tragedy, Dunson and Groot press on.

Despite this tragedy, Ponce has continued to be a hub of political activity on the island, being the founding site of several major political parties.

Despite this new tragedy she took up live performing again, even gracing the American Bandstand 30th Anniversary Special Episode and appearing in the town where she had been raped.

Despite a better-than-expected performance and a successful return flight to Canada in 1930, the R100 was broken up following the tragedy that befell its " sister " ship, the R101 ( which was designed and built by a team from the Government's Air Ministry ); the later crash of the Hindenburg led to the abandonment of airships as a mode of mass transport.

Despite the tragedy of his last years, Norquay was generally successful in developing Manitoba during his time in office.

Despite being nasty, Nanette does hold many talents, such as spending the entire episode " Don't Overdue It " balancing a book on her head ( and staining it with hair gel ) and writing a " three act Greek tragedy " in the episode " Ancient Greeks " and casting all of her classmates in " the lesser roles " such as Jimmy Jamal as Zeus, Johnny Abatti as an eagle, Gina Lash as Dionysus, Gordy Rhinehart as Hercules, and Angela with a multitude of roles because she was disgusted by Angela's acting performance.

Despite this tragedy, the 321st Bomb Wing, under the direction of its new commander, Colonel Robert W. Strong, Jr., won the top honors of the meet, including the coveted Fairchild and McCoy trophies, distinguishing the 321st as the top B-47 Wing in SAC.

Despite the lives lost, no one has been made accountable for the tragedy.

Despite the poem's name, the year had been one of great tragedy, including the Great Fire of London.

Despite its place among the higher echelons of Hardy's prose, the novel is ' something of an anomaly ', given its shallow resemblance to the tragedy of both its predecessor The Mayor of Casterbridge and its successor Tess of the D ' Urbervilles.

Despite the tragedy and public opinion starting to consider balloon-flight to be excessively dangerous, Newbery prepared a new balloon, “ El Patriota ”, and revitalised aerostatics with the help of socialist representative Alfredo Palacios.

Despite this tragedy, the team now performs with four Su-27Ps and two Su-27UBs.

Despite demands for the building's demolition, the damage from the tragedy of 1870 was repaired.

Despite light moments, the musical, like the play, is essentially a tragedy.

Despite scoring a winning goal in a Turin derby match against Juventus, his time at the Italian club was short and almost ended in tragedy.

Despite low population density, taxpayers spend annually around 350 million euro in maintaining railway tracks even to many rural towns.

Despite a report by the Greater London Authority in support of continued use, the railway was closed in the early hours of 31 May 2003.

Despite French and Moroccan military aid, Polisario raids against the Zouerate railway and mines threatened to bring about economic collapse, and there were deep misgivings in the military about the Saharan adventure.

Despite fulfilling all the necessary railway procedures, the fire trains sometimes arrive at the site faster than the road vehicles, bringing more water supply to tackle the fire.

Despite the increase in tensions due to the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911, Bethmann Hollweg did improve relations with Britain to some extent, working with British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to alleviate tensions during the Balkan Crises of 1912-1913, and negotiating treaties over an eventual partition of the Portuguese colonies and the Berlin-Baghdad railway.

Despite severe under-investment, the line remained open, and in 1951 it became the first railway in the world to be preserved as a heritage railway by volunteers.

Despite its small size, Braunston was once served by two railway stations, both now closed.

Despite having widespread interests in a number of commercial areas, the LMS was first and foremost a railway organisation.

Despite the fire in 1859, the town of Theresa was one of the most popular manufacturing and trading hubs in the North Country, even without a railway.

Despite being a free-marketeer, in January 1993 Ridley spoke out against railway privatisation, and when in government, advised Thatcher against doing so.

Despite the inconvenience that this caused, the railway benefitted by Hong Kong becoming the centre of communications and trade with southern China, especially as much of the traffic that had hitherto gone by sea could no longer do so.

Despite nineteenth century efforts to connect the town to the expanding railway network the North Staffordshire Railway received an act of parliament to build a branch line from Stowe-by-Chartley which was never taken advantage of.

Despite railway competition, the canal still carried in excess of 200, 000 tons per year between 1885 and 1909.

Despite relatively poor communication infrastructure ( there is no Shinkansen link and the existing railway is a single track local line ), the city derives a large proportion of its overall income from tourism.

Despite their ubiquity, very few have survived into preservation as there is very little scope of operating them due to their unique means of obtaining power, slow speed and the fact they greatly exceed the loading gauge of most railway lines.

Despite hopes that the railway would bring further economic development to Rickmansworth and would serve the small factories and warehouses which had developed along the Grand Union Canal, it was Watford which grew at a faster pace and drew business from Rickmansworth.

Despite the loss of the London Underground service to the nearby Great Missenden railway station, an overground service has and still does continue, run by Chiltern Railways.

Despite the ban on privately owned diesel locomotives operating on BR tracks, railway enthusiasts did not have to wait that long after the final withdrawal of the class to see a Deltic back on the mainline.

Despite a tram connection being provided from Portstewart to Cromore to link with the railway, the town developed with a more genteel character.

Despite the opening of Headingley railway station, serving the gardens, in 1849, the zoo was a loss-making venture and closed in 1858.

Despite the building of a railway along the south of his estate in the 1850s, Mr Ellis did not develop his lot.

Despite being ranked first in worldwide subway usage, subways make up a small fraction of heavy rail rapid transit in Tokyo alone — only 274 out of 882 railway stations, as of 2007.

Despite the naming, the North Melbourne railway station is actually in the adjacent suburb of West Melbourne, while the Flemington Bridge railway station is in North Melbourne boundaries and not in Flemington.

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.