Despite the major changes made to the team in the offseason, the team wound up with its first winning season since 1997.

Despite making the race very close, in the 161st game of the season, the Dodgers snapped their five-game losing streak – and the Rockies ' five-game winning streak – to clinch the West title.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

Despite the good news off the field, and winning four out of five games to start the season, the Wizards just missed out on a playoff berth with a loss to the New York Red Bulls on the final day, finishing with a 10 – 14 – 8 record.

Despite winning the League Cup, Liverpool could only finish 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012.

“ There is no prospect of ever winning Russian cooperation .” Despite its reservations, the 80th Congress implemented Truman ’ s requests, further escalating the Cold War with the USSR.

Despite a strong push in the middle of the 2007 season, winning five straight games, the Vikings lost their final two games to finish the season at 8 – 8, missing the playoffs.

Despite not making the playoffs, the Brewers had some other memorable moments, as Pat Listach hit. 290 and stole 54 bases while winning the AL Rookie of the Year award, while Robin Yount got his 3000th career hit.

Despite his efforts, he has not been on a title winning first-class domestic team in either the Premier Trophy or the County Championship.

Despite this, some wrestlers, such as Chris Jericho, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Kurt Angle, Ken Shamrock, The Undertaker, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit, became famous for winning matches via submission.

Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was a fluke and continued to believe that the NFL was still superior to the AFL, and thus fully expected the Vikings to defeat the Chiefs ; the Vikings entered the Super Bowl as 12. 5 to 13-point favorites.

The structure of the latter event is such that it … justifies a belief that intelligent design is the cause … Despite the fact that the probability of winning three consecutive 1-in-1, 000 games is exactly the same as the probability of winning one 1-in-1, 000, 000, 000 game, the former event … warrants an inference of intelligent design.

Despite winning the Triple Crown, Williams came in second in the MVP voting to Joe Gordon of the Yankees.

Despite ZZ Top's popularity and success in the 1970s, it wasn't until the 1980s that they started winning major awards and honors.

Despite his injuries, he competed in the Nations Grand Prix at Monza six days later, winning the race after he had persuaded staff at the hospital to bandage him in a manner such that he could sit on his motorcycle and receive a push start.

Despite winning all three main round games, so did France and Spain, and those two teams qualified for the semi-finals from Group I.

Despite over 70 rehearsals between 1862 and 1864, Tristan und Isolde was unable to be staged in Vienna, winning the opera a reputation as unperformable.

Despite winning four terms as President, Blatter has often been dogged by controversy and allegations of corruption.

Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($ 93 million at the North American Box Office ).

Despite only winning numerically the vote in only 1 state ; the relatively electorally small Federal District which holds the capital of Brazil ; the Green Party interestingly came second to Dilma in Amapa, Amazonas, Pernambuco and in Rio de Janeiro in front of Jose Serra.

Despite the fact that the allegations were backed by successive UN Special Rapporteurs and a Canadian Government investigation, Bildt succeeded in winning the public controversy in Sweden, allowing Lundin Oil to pursue its activities in Sudan.

Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976.

Despite his. 333 winning percentage, Ryan tied for 5th place in the 1987 Cy Young voting.

Despite trying his best to stop them, La Forge is sympathetic to their actions and even offers a full pardon if they stop.

Despite the cancellation, the aborted project did yield the documentary Lost in La Mancha, produced from film from a second crew that had been hired by Gilliam to document the making of Quixote.

Despite her attempts to remain out of the public eye, she was falsely accused in the libelles of having an affair with the commander of the Garde Nationale, the marquis de La Fayette.

Despite a rather disastrous production in Bergamo shortly after its initial run at La Fenice, the opera soon entered the repertory of Italian theatres.

Despite losing, De La Hoya made over $ 30 million from the fight.

Despite another major flood in 1951, Congress did not agree to a flood control plan until 1962, when it authorized a project that included levees and a flood control dam on the Kickapoo River upstream of Soldiers Grove near La Farge, Wisconsin.

Despite credits as an ' official band member ' being included in any group photos on the four Eighties studio albums from " Long Distance Voyager " to " Sur La Mer " in recent years Moodies compilations now refer to Moraz as merely being an ' Additional keyboardist '.

Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called " the quintessential critics ' band " and maintains a strong cult following.

Despite the findings to the contrary, many people in France persisted in the belief that the Queen had used the La Mottes as an instrument to satisfy her hatred of the Cardinal de Rohan.

Despite the existence of three stenographic reports of the address, the Associated Press misquoted La Follette claiming he had said " We had no grievance against Germany " and that he argued the sinking of the Lusitania was justified.

Despite the hiatus, in 2006 Brad Roberts began to casually record the album that would become Oooh La La with producer and friend Stewart Lerman, using the optigan and omnichord.

Despite these additions, over 87 % of Barolo is produced in the original five communes of Barolo, La Morra, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d ' Alba and Monforte d ' Alba with Barolo and Castiglione Falletto considered the " heart " or unofficial " classico " areas of the zone.

He deposed the priest Alain Maillard de La Morandais from his diplomatic functions towards the political sphere, as he considered him to be too pro-Balladur during the 1995 presidential campaign Despite his opposition to Mitterrand's governments, he presided as Archbishop of Paris over Mitterrand's funeral.

Despite losing, it was in fact Kieseritzky who recorded and published the game during his period as editor of " La Regence ".

Despite a brief collaboration with Anti-fascists, he joined the National Fascist Party ( PNF ) in 1928, and became party secretary for the Fascio in La Spezia, being elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1934.

Despite the violence, since it became capital of the Department of Cesar, Valledupar developed as an important agricultural and cattle raising center for the region between the departments of Cesar and southern parts of La Guajira.

Despite the domination of works that have been translated into English in most non-English speaking countries, a sizable number of original gamebooks — both individual books and series — have been published in various countries ; this is especially the case in France ( e. g. the La Saga du Prêtre Jean series ).

Despite these preparations, only 35 out of a total of 42 texts were published in La Vogue between May 13 and June 21 due to an obscure dispute between those associated with the project.

Despite this, some songs such as " Gamelan de Couple " and " La Bamba " were popular enough to make appearances in other Bemani series such as beatmania as Dance Dance Revolution.

Despite losing their last game to Ireland, the headline on page one of the national sport newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport read " To lose like this is beautiful ," and 10, 000 fans later greeted the national team at Rome's Piazza del Popolo.

Despite its name, the La Scala was a cinema.

Despite interest from La Liga champions Real Madrid, Alonso remained committed to Real Sociedad.

Despite its appearance in countless movies and commercials, the stand faced demolition in the mid-1980s, creating an outcry that resulted in the stand being moved a few yards from its original location at 311 North La Cienega Boulevard, to 329 North San Vicente Boulevard.