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 continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

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 the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

Despite his own desperate struggle, the Imperial Prince at once complied, demonstrating the high degree of confidence and mutual co-operation between the two generals.

Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.

Despite this dramatic act, the Cardinals scored two runs in the top of the tenth.

Unfortunately in the literature the definition is given in two variants: Despite the fact that Bernoulli defined B < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 / 2 ( now known as " second Bernoulli numbers "), some authors set B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 (" first Bernoulli numbers ").

Despite this road and those running through a few other passes, in general the escarpment impedes easy communication between the two countries.

Despite this, there has been unofficial interactions in the economic level between the two countries.

Despite rejecting these terms, Constantius still tried to avert war with the Sassanid Empire by sending two embassies to Shapur II.

Despite being deprived of his French troops after the conquest of those two cities, Borgia returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph and to receive the title of Papal Gonfalonier from his father.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single " Sound and Vision ", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two.

Despite wavering tensions between Tehran and Cairo, the two countries are members of the OIC and the Developing 8

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite close cultural ties, diplomatic relations between the two countries have in many instances been volatile.

Despite Davies ' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice ( and both times culpable for the planet's destruction ).

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

Despite his proclamations that, " I like a jealous wife ," " We get on so well together ( because ) we don't have illusions about each other ," and, " I wouldn't give you two cents for a dame without a temper ," it was a highly destructive relationship.

Despite more than a century of exposure to Western classical music and two centuries of British colonialism, classical music in India has never gained more than ' fringe ' popularity.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Despite the failure of this coup, the United States became concerned over Honduran instability.

Despite the popularity of Gayoom, those connected to the former President hired ex-SAS mercenaries in 1980 to carry out a coup to oust him.

Despite coup attempts in 1980, 1983, and 1988, Gayoom's popularity remained strong, allowing him to win three more presidential terms.

Despite the economic growth and results in diplomacy, the government, having gained power by coup d ' etat, was essentially a military regime.

Despite an alleged coup during, this was approved, and currently new elections are scheduled to be held around May, 2011.

Despite this, 1960 was a year of unrest in South Vietnam, with pro-democracy demonstrations inspired by the South Korean student uprising that year and a failed military coup in November.

Despite the coup of 1524 she corresponded warmly with Albany, who continued his efforts on her behalf in Rome.

Despite this, Thiệu agreed to join the coup against Diệm in November 1963 in the midst of the Buddhist crisis, leading the siege on Gia Long Palace.

Despite the lack of enthusiasm among most Brazilians for adopting a republican form of government, on 15 November 1889, after a 58-year reign, the Emperor was overthrown in a sudden coup d ' état that had almost no support outside a clique of military leaders whose goal was the formation of a republic headed by a dictator.

Despite entering the union through sport, he had been influenced in joining it by wider events ; in 1980, the far-right General Luis García Meza seized power in a military coup, banned other political parties and subsequently declared himself president in what observers widely declared a dictatorship.

Despite Lithuanian support, the Soviets did not transfer Vilnius to the Lithuanians till just before the city was recaptured by the Polish forces ( in late August ), instead up till that time the Soviets encouraged their own, pro-communist Lithuanian government, Litbel, and were planning a pro-communist coup in Lithuania.

Despite his former American citizenship and academic career in the United States, Papandreou held the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for the 1967 coup and became increasingly critical of the Federal government of the United States.

Despite establishing himself an autocrat in a bloodless coup d ' état that ended parliamentary rule in 1772, his political powers did not give him the right to start a war.

Despite the brutal 1963 coup which removed Abdul Karim Qassim from power in Iraq, Pachachi remained the representative at the United Nations.

Despite Kukoi ’ s failure to assume power permanently, the attempted coup revealed major weaknesses within the ruling PPP and society as a whole.

Despite the fact that he did not participate in the planning of the coup, Aubame was sentenced at his trial to 10 years of hard labor and 10 years of exile.

Despite these events, legislative elections, which were planned before the coup, were held in April 1964.

Despite the title, Kohn is doubtful that a coup d ' état against Congress was ever seriously attempted.

Despite the overwhelming contradictions of the coup being executed by mostly Northern soldiers ( such as John Atom Kpera later military governor of Benue State ), the killing of Igbo soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe by coup executioners, and Ironsi's termination of an Igbo-led coup, the ease by which Ironsi stopped the coup led to suspicion that the Igbo coup plotters planned all along to pave the way for Ironsi to take the reins of power in Nigeria.