Despite the numerical advantage of the Persians, the hoplites proved devastatingly effective against the more lightly armed Persian infantry, routing the wings before turning in on the centre of the Persian line.

Despite the recession of the late 1950s, the company sold $ 94, 000 worth of these modules during 1958 alone, turning a profit at the end of its first year.

Despite his imperial claims, Frederick's rule was a major turning point towards the disintegration of a central rule in the Empire.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Despite the losses, the Manufactory served as a playground of innovation, both in turning a large amount of cotton, but also developing the water-powered milling structure used in Slater's Mill.

Despite his efforts to keep her placated with periodic doses of veterinary anesthetic, his mother starts murdering other townspeople, turning them into zombies.

" Despite the last few years of frustration of the Four Lovers, this proved to be the turning point of the group: on a handshake between keyboardist / composer Bob Gaudio and lead singer Frankie Valli, the Four Seasons Partnership was formed.

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

Despite this setback, which included a fitness report that stated " in an emergency he is liable to lose his head ", Arnold made a commitment to remain in the service, turning down an offer of the presidency of the soon-to-be operating Pan American Airways, which he had helped bring into being.

Despite the massive seppuku of the Hōjō clan, the Hōjō clan subsisted by the sacrifice of Fūma shinobi clan turning attention on itself to save some descendants.

Despite the numerical advantage of the Persians, the hoplites proved devastatingly effective against the more lightly armed Persian infantry, routing the wings before turning in on the centre of the Persian line.

Despite turning away from the style of popular alternative rock, major labels began to show significant interest in Uncle Tupelo after March 16 – 20, 1992 was released.

Despite being located midway between Celtic and Rangers, Queen's Park's long resistance to professionalism has resulted in not having competed in the same division as them for long periods of time, and thus turning to rivals in lower divisions, such as Partick Thistle, Clyde and Albion Rovers.

Despite the bet, Jericho continued his relationship with Stratus, which ultimately resulted in Christian and Jericho turning on each other.

Despite an impressive beginning, with 3, 600 turning out for the first home game against the London Racers, crowds would not be consistent and it soon became apparent that ice hockey at the busiest indoor venue in Europe would no longer be viable with the season's average attendance being just 2, 150 per game, falling far short of the rumoured number of 3, 000 needed to cover costs.

Despite apparently dying, Allison was recovered by the Covenant and nursed back to health, turning up in the third season.

Despite making the Coppa Italia final in 2003 with Roma, he moved to Milan after turning down a move to Japan with Yokohama F. Marinos.

Despite the heavy fog, Commodore Watson ordered all ships to travel in close formation and, turning too soon, went aground.

Despite his size, he displayed solid defense, being adept at scooping throws out of the dirt and excellent quickness turning the 3-6-3 double play.

" Despite his much smaller net worth, he openly refused to request a payout, even turning down a $ 1. 5 million settlement offer from Simpson's dad.

Despite not being technically related to the Smythe's and Madison's creations, when Spider-Man refits all the Octobots confiscated from Doctor Octopus and kept in the New York Police Precinct to carry an antidote able to reverse the mutations turning all the New York population into Man-Spiders, he humorously renames them his own Spider-Slayers.

Despite turning away from the Lecompton " Breckinridge " faction, Downey failed to gain the nomination of the Anti-Lecompton " Unionist " Democrats during the state Democratic convention.

Despite Jack's instructions to leave Little Jack to self-soothe by himself, Greg cannot bear to listen to Little Jack's cries and tends to the boy to cheer him up, turning the television on, acting funny and inadvertently teaching Little Jack to say " asshole ".

Despite Silius ' poor reputation, classical scholars with their renewed interest in later Imperial epic seem to be finally turning their attentions to Silius ' poetry.

Despite his yearning, the colonel would not go down to see the men come through the lines.

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 such a tremendous victory, Abd al-Rahman had to continuously put down rebellions in al-Andalus.

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 these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite its unpopularity, the Rump was a link with the old constitution, and helped to settle England down and make it secure after the biggest upheaval in its history.

Despite the best intentions, their guarded editorial and business skills forced the company to close down soon after cancelling Pasolini ’ s project, Accattone ( 1961 ).

Despite their work, Nintendo turned them down, saying they had no interest in expanding to the PC market, and that Mario games were to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

Despite zero interest rates and expansion of the money supply to encourage borrowing, Japanese corporations in aggregate opted to pay down their debts from their own business earnings rather than borrow to invest as firms typically do.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

Despite assistance from France the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was put down by British forces.

Despite the existence of mills, the drawing of wire down to fine sizes continued to be done manually.

Despite being considered one obstacle, each element may result in penalty points if knocked down.

Despite images having these problems in relation to the sampling theorem, the theorem can be used to describe the basics of down and up sampling of images.

Despite its name, Little Domesday was actually larger as it is far more detailed, down to numbers of livestock.

Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended.

Despite this turbulence, Newcastle were able to finish twelfth at the end of the season, with one particular highlight being a 4-4 home draw against Arsenal which saw Newcastle come back from four goals down to claim a point.

Despite the Bishop's words, we later find that the police mark the event down in Valjean's permanent record.

Despite a childhood dream to play for the Oakland Raiders, he turned down the scholarships on the advice of his mother, who argued that football players had shorter careers.

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

Despite being offered a contract by nearby Middlesbrough, the offer made by Dodgin was too attractive to turn down, so he signed for Fulham and moved to London, playing as a wing-half and inside-forward.

Despite warnings about her presumption, she did not turn back but dared to sit herself down on Ereshkigal's throne.