Despite the irregular scheduling, the program's hard-hitting reports attracted a steadily growing audience, particularly during the waning days of the Vietnam War and the gripping events of the Watergate scandal ; at that time, few if any other major-network news shows did in-depth investigative reporting to the degree carried out by 60 Minutes.

Despite this, Hungarian ambitions remained unchanged long after Kulin's death in 1204, waning only after an unsuccessful invasion in 1254.

Despite another disappointing season, the Pacers managed to sweep the waning Detroit Pistons for the first time in 5 years, and the abysmal New Jersey Nets for the first time in 20.

Despite his waning powers, Bradman compiled 11 centuries on the tour, amassing 2, 428 runs ( average 89. 92 ).

Despite the waning gas supply, many industries remained.

Despite his waning chart appeal in the USA in the late 1960s, he remained very popular as a concert attraction, notably in the UK and Australia.

Despite the Chicken Whopper's initial success, just over a year after the Chicken Whopper's introduction enthusiasm for the product was waning ; Burger King's largest franchisee, Carrols Corporation, was complaining that the product line was a failure, describing the sandwich as a pedestrian product with a great name.

Despite being drawn in a group with England, getting through it was perceived to be easy work with a waning Colombia and minnows Tunisia.

Despite her waning popularity, Wells remained a successful concert attraction at smaller venues throughout the country and was still performing on the summer resort circuit as late as the mid-1980s.

Despite his failure, Vexicon's prowess against the Rangers was enough to renew Ransik's waning faith in Frax, allowing the latter to continue his secret scheming.

Despite higher energy prices, oil and gas only contribute to 5. 7 % of Russia's GDP and the government predicts this will be 3. 7 % by 2011.

Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing inter-party debate on the pace of market reforms.

Despite the value and investment of public capital, growing delays in air and surface transportation, aging electric grid, an untapped renewable energy sector, and inadequate school facilities all have justified additional funding in public capital investment.

Despite being completely inconsistent with a common-sense approach and the expected behavior of " normal " matter, negative mass is completely mathematically consistent and introduces no violation of conservation of momentum or energy.

Despite her energy, Anastasia's physical health was sometimes poor.

Despite the relative pressure disadvantage, modern rimfire magnums in. 17-caliber, 5mm, and. 22-caliber generate muzzle energy comparable to smaller centerfire cartridges.

Despite years of effort and the occasional hoax ( i. e. cold fusion ), no man-made fusion reaction has produced more energy than it consumed and been a viable source of electricity.

Despite the primacy of Shandong's energy sector, the province has also been plagued with problems of inefficiency and ranks as the largest consumer of fossil fuels in all of China.

Despite the village's location in the northern state of Wisconsin, studies demonstrated that it was feasible for new buildings to achieve a majority of their heat from solar energy.

Despite all these amazing powers, Ultraman has one main weakness: Since Earth's atmosphere leeches away his solar energy, Ultraman can only physically exist on Earth for approximately three to five minutes of Earth time.

Despite its name, in the present discussion it is a quantity with the dimensions of energy.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite this imbalance, energy is still conserved because the total energy in the system before firing ( the chemical energy stored in the propellant ) is equal to the total energy after firing ( the kinetic energy of the recoiling firearm, plus the kinetic energy of the bullet and other ejecta, plus the heat energy from the explosion ).

Despite their comparative energy and efficiency, the Cabal was a fractious and unpopular lot and their infighting spilled over publicly into parliament, particularly the House of Lords.

Despite her life – changing accident, she continued hosting her children's shows with more energy than ever.

Despite releasing some of the energy with powerful punches, he suffers a powerful heart attack.

Despite the commitment of time and energy entailed by his place as head of the American Federation of Labor, Gompers remained first vice-president of the Cigarmakers until his death in December 1924.

Despite this, many stations are rather dark, due to the policies of energy economy in the late 1980s, with later modernisations doing little to fix this problem.

Despite being limited by having only one female member, Kerri Kenney's energy and acting range ( portraying anyone from an average housewife to Nancy Spungen ) led the cast to describe her as " the only girl we need ".

Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes.

Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

Despite display rules and guidances, accidents have continued to happen.

Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.

Despite their embrace of the principle of rectilinear inertia and the recognition of the kinematical relativity of apparent motion ( which underlies whether the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system is correct ), natural philosophers of the seventeenth century continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body.

Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.

Despite the progress in certain sectors, many social and political injustices continued.

Despite this turnover in the ownership, a powerhouse team composed of Feller, Doby, Minnie Miñoso, Luke Easter, Bobby Avila, Al Rosen, Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, and Mike Garcia continued to contend through the early 1950s.

Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.

Despite the reorganization, money continued to be a problem for the institution.

Despite the Algiers Agreement, tense relations with Ethiopia have continued and led to regional instability.

Despite the advent of a regular television service in the Federal Republic in 1952, cinema attendances continued to grow through much of the 1950s, reaching a peak of 817. 5 million visits in 1956.

Despite this, however, the country continued to receive aid and investment from capitalist countries such as the U. S ..

Despite ceasing to record new material between 2002 and ( most of ) 2005, Brooks continued to chart with previously recorded material, including a top 30 placing for " Why Ain't I Running " in 2003.

Despite the advent of print however, hand-written grimoires remained highly valued, as they were believed to contain inherent magical powers within them, and they continued to be produced.

Despite the step up, his scoring exploits continued and he was runner-up only to Ian Rush in the goalscoring charts the following season and then went one better as he was the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 with 24 goals.

Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.

Despite the testimony, persecution against Quakers and other dissenters continued.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite strong government measures, tension continued to grow, and Carías was ultimately forced to release some prisoners.

Despite his engagement in politics, Abeken never lost his interest in theology and continued to publish and speak in this sector during all of his life.

Despite widespread condemnation of her scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters.

Despite warnings from local authorities, the group continued to meet privately and attract even more followers.

Despite these illnesses, construction of the new town continued.