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spite and return
On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.
John convened a synod, and Formosus was ordered to return or be excommunicated on charges that he had aspired to the Bulgarian Archbishopric and the Holy See ; had opposed the emperor and had deserted his diocese without papal permission ; had despoiled the cloisters in Rome ; had performed the divine service in spite of the interdict ; and had " conspired with certain iniquitous men and women for the destruction of the papal see ".
In spite of the lure of eternal happiness together in this new dimension, the two return to Earth to assist their friends against extra-dimensional demons, when Spike arrives.
In spite of his position as one of the leading nobles of the realm, he was not included in Henry VI's Council on his return.
In spite of this success, however, he chose to return to his hometown of Camuy and teach chemistry and biology at the local high school, where he taught for the next 23 years.
In spite of this happy outcome, Galehaut is the one who finally convinces Guinevere to return Lancelot's affection, an action that at least partially results in the fall of Camelot.
Portugal flirted with the French at first, but the British offered to support Portugal's claim to the entire Congo in return for a free trade agreement and to spite their French rivals.
In spite of the fear of many senators that Prodi's defeat would return Silvio Berlusconi to power, the Senate did not approve a motion backing Prodi's government foreign policy, two votes shy of the required majority of 160.
She accepted Barbara, however later withdrew from the king's society, and in spite of Clarendon's attempts to moderate her resentment, declared she would return to Portugal rather than consent to a base compliance.
If all three substitutes are injured, the injured player will be forced to return to the game and play on in spite of his injuries.
But his return to the international chess scene was delayed, in spite of his excellent form ; he won at Riga 1944 / 45 ( Baltic Championship ) ( 10. 5 / 11 ).
The feud did not long survive Shane's return to Ireland, where he quickly re-established his authority, and in spite of Sussex renewed his warfare against the O ' Donnells and the MacDonnells to force them to recognise O ' Neill supremacy in Ulster.
In spite of its anti-secessionist sentiments, the Whig was staunchly pro-slavery in the early days of the Civil War but, upon Brownlow's return from exile in 1863, the paper adopted an abolitionist stance.
In spite of the troubles of the times, so fatal to poetic fame, his reputation steadily increased, and when, on his return to England in 1656, he published a volume of his collected poetical works, he found himself without a rival in public esteem.
In spite of the danger, Noor rejected an offer to return to Britain.
It was believed that if a human child was taken in spite of such measures, the parents could force the return of the child by treating the changeling cruelly, using methods such as whipping or even inserting it in a heated oven.
In return, he gives Stephen details of the plot against Aubrey and exposes the British traitors-Wray and Ledward-motivated by profit and by spite against Aubrey.
According to The Financial Times, Henriksson, who had been the company's Chief Executive since 2005, had had differences with chairman Nigel Rudd over running the company, differences in spite of the company's return to financial health under Henriksson.
When after a stay of more than a year the Swedish embassy prepared to return, Kaempfer joined the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in the Persian Gulf as chief surgeon, and in spite of fever caught at Bander Abbasi he found opportunity to see something of Arabia and of many of the western coast-lands of India.
While in command at Fort Monroe, Butler declined to return to their owners fugitive slaves who had come within his lines, on the grounds that, as laborers for building fortifications and other military activities, they were contraband of war, thereby justifying granting these slaves a relative freedom, in spite of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
In spite of his great age, he continued to write on economic and financial problems with his accustomed lucidity and soundness of judgment, insisting on the necessity for Italy to return to freedom of trade and to reduce government interference in business matters to a minimum.
As a result of a teleportation accident involving the zeta beam, he has lost both of his eyeballs but in spite of his injuries, he is trying to fix a damaged spaceship so that they may return home.
They had to return both Glarus and Zug to the Habsburgs in the peace treaty of Regensburg in 1356 ; emperor Charles IV in return recognized the Zunftordnung of Zürich and confirmed its reichsfrei status in spite of his having forbidden any confederations within the empire in his Golden Bull issued in January of that same year.

spite and pop
Perhaps more importantly, in spite of his folky persona and repertoire, Donovan had always considered himself a pop star, rather than a folk singer.
In spite of her age, at the time of her 1956 hit Carr recorded a lot of high school pop, not moving on to more mature songs and standards until her pop career was all but over.
In 2009, Animotion was thrust into pop culture again as it was featured on VH-1's Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 80s ( in spite of the fact that Animotion are technically not one-hit wonders, as their second single " Let Him Go " made it into the top 40 in 1985, and " Room to Move " cracked the top ten in 1989, albeit with an almost entirely different line-up ).
The single, slightly edgier than she had been known for in the past ( such as her songs from Grease and her country-pop ballad " I Honestly Love You "), proved to be immensely popular both in America and in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that the song was censored and even banned by some radio stations ; due to its sexual and / or violent content, especially the line: " Let me hear your body talk ", in spite of Newton-John's status as the reigning queen of soft-rock music at the time, " Physical " peaked at only number twenty-nine on the AC chart ( its follow-up, the slightly softer-edged " Make a Move on Me ," found more acceptance at AC radio and went to number six AC as well as number five pop.
His son Rasmus after becoming a pop singer, wrote a song about him called " Den jeg er " ( Who I am ), stating what a major influence his father had in his life in spite of his addiction.

spite and songs
Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.
Roe maintains that he was not completely happy with half of the songs, although he went on to state that in spite of this, several of the songs such as " Fast Times at Dropout High " and " Road Signs and Rock Songs " were still to date some of the band's strongest of their earlier career.
In spite of that, their up-beat songs have been highly praised and well received by the Japanese public, such as their best-selling single.
He is still loved and revered by the Indians for the great movies and great songs that he gave in spite of personal tragedies and stiff competition from his contemporaries.
In spite of the breakup of the Guess Who, several of Cummings ’ solo songs featured Bachman on guitar.
In spite of the many calls upon his time he produced a considerable amount of literary work, usually on classical or Scottish subjects, including some poems and songs of no mean order.
In spite of his songs ' popularity, Gorni Kramer and his orchestra were still ignored by the Italian state radio EIAR, who boycotted them because they played jazz.
In spite of Russian version being completely dubbed, the songs were left in their original Hungarian version with brief voiceover translation of the first few lines.
The album is punctuated by several more aggressive songs, written to spite the band's record label.
In spite of suffering from short-term memory loss and the effects of anti-convulsive medications, he continued to write songs and play with fellow Marin County musicians.
In spite of this, both Winbush and Moore continue to enjoy substantial success in their respective solo careers, with Moore going on to compose and produce hits for many major artists, most notably Michael Jackson ; and together they wrote and produced four songs for Janet Jackson's first, self-titled album.
The genius of Guidi was lyric in the highest degree ; his songs are written with singular force, and charm the reader, in spite of touches of bombast.
Hatton excelled in the lyrical forms of music, and, in spite of his distinct skill in the severer styles of the madrigal, etc., he won popularity by such songs as " To Anthea ", " Good-bye, Sweetheart ", and " Simon the Cellarer ", the first of which may be called a classic in its own way.
In spite of the number of songs about death and spirituality, a few songs venture into comedy, " The watermellon song " and " U Li La Lu " (" If I should die in a car wreck, may I have Van Morrison on my tape deck ").
The Chung King Can Suck It album remained a rarity ( in spite of two different bootleg editions of the album ), and was sought after both for its collectibility and the two rare Judge songs it contained, until 2005, when Revelation compiled all of Judge's recorded output-Chung King Can Suck It included-for the CD What It Meant: The Complete Discography.
He toured with his songs when he had to, but in spite of his stage experience he was not a showman.
In spite of this, voice-and-piano performances, especially of the ' lighter ' songs, are frequent.

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