Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

The original D minor seems to symbolize blindness, inescapable in spite of all attempts to move away from it.

But, in spite of all this, enough evidence remains to show that the magic square of three must indeed have been the object of a rather extensive cult -- or series of cults -- reaching fullest expression in the Han period.

Never forget that you can still do your share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and frustrations and disappointments.

The opening track, "' Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum ', includes many references to parades in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where participants are masked, and " determined to go all the way " of the parade route, in spite of being intoxicated.

In spite of the name Cernunnos being attested nowhere else, it is commonly used in Celtological literature as describing all comparable depictions of horned deities.

In spite of all this variety, destroyers adopted a largely similar pattern.

If in spite of all his advice someone persisted in making idols, he would have them punished by the Patingatis ( Parava headsman ) by exile .... One day when he heard that idols had been worshipped in the house of a Christian, he ordered the hut to be burnt down as a warning to others.

When discipline was restored, in spite of assurances that Spaniards who wished to remain would enjoy freedom of religion and full civil rights, almost all villagers decided not to run the risk of staying and left in exile.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

Israel dismantled 18 settlements in the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and all 21 in the Gaza Strip and 4 in the West Bank in 2005, but continues to both expand its settlements and settle new areas in the West Bank in spite of the Oslo Accords which barred both Israeli and Palestinians from undertaking unilateral actions that would alter the status quo.

Eventually, beset by delays and in spite of all of the media coverage and apparent demand for the machine, the project ultimately went under when Konix ran out of cash without a completed system ever being released.

The Adi-parva includes the snake sacrifice ( sarpasattra ) of Janamejaya, explaining its motivation, detailing why all snakes in existence were intended to be destroyed, and why in spite of this, there are still snakes in existence.

Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light burned oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first.

In spite of the agreement, all the parties of the trial: prosecution, defendant and the victim as an auxiliary prosecutor ( in Poland, the victim may declare that he wants to act as an " auxiliary prosecutor " and consequently gains the rights similar to official prosecutor )-have the right to appeal.

In spite of the metaphysical subject, the Commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century Florence: Dante's rise to power ( 1300 ) and exile ( 1302 ), his political passions call for a " violent " use of language, where he uses all the registers, from low and trivial to sublime and philosophical.

Four days later, pope and cardinals had to flee from Rome before the imperial prefect of the Eternal City, and at Terracina, in spite of all protests, Victor laid aside the papal insignia and once more retired to Monte Cassino, where he remained nearly a whole year.

In spite of this, Brecht never envisioned a version of the play in Germany, intending it for the American stage all along.

In spite of all the evidence, people underappreciate or, more often, ignore the political implications of the therapeutic character of Nazism and of the use of medical metaphors in modern democracies.

In spite of this, Lauda's move is seen as one of the bravest examples in motor racing, especially since it lost the title for Ferrari of all teams.

The Huntington Library retained the Nuremberg Laws in a basement vault in spite of a legal instruction in 1969 by the general's family to turn over all of his papers to the Library of Congress.

Still in spite of all his blunders, it is clear that, for a short time at least, middle-class opinion was, on the whole, favourable to him ; and had he been wise, he might perhaps have been able to defy any hostile combination.

But in spite of all the efforts of the Antiochene party, the representatives of the envoys whom the council was eventually allowed to send, with the legate Philip, to the Court, persuaded the emperor to accept Cyril's council as the true one.

Hill and his men worked in spite of all obstacles — including a presidential veto of a bill that would have allowed Hill legally to build through American Indian territory ( the law preventing Hill from laying track across Indian territories was later repealed under President Grover Cleveland, who like Hill was a Bourbon Democrat ).

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

Those who continue to have faith in astrology have been characterized as doing so " in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary.

* Beowulf's landing, an awkward reception at first, and stay at Heorot, being begged to stay there to fight king Hrothgar's enemies paralleling Aeneas ' landing and stay at Carthage, again, awkward at first, including being begged to stay there to fight the queen's enemies, but the hero decides to leave in spite of being promised great wealth and privilege.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

In spite of their smaller brain, there is evidence that H. floresiensis used fire and made stone tools at least as sophisticated as those of their proposed ancestors H. erectus.

Because there seems to be no acceptable alternative available, political support for the much troubled TBS-system remains, in spite of the controversy.

In spite of the zeal with which the hierarchy sought to destroy it due to mistranslations and erroneous commentary, there still exist about 150 manuscripts, complete or partial, containing the translation in its revised form.

Studies showed that in spite of using distractors, there was still both a recency effect for a list of items and a contiguity effect.

While most stereoisomers can be arranged in pairs of mirror-image forms, there are some non-chiral stereoisomers that are identical to their mirror images, in spite of having chiral centers.

In spite of early Roman Catholic Church prohibitions against charging interest on loans, there is some evidence that the Franciscans were permitted to begin the practice as an aid to the poor.

In spite of the steady inflation during the 2nd century, there was no further rise until the time of Septimius Severus, who increased it to 500 denarii a year.

In spite of this freedom and diversity, there seem to be some basic theological / philosophical ideas which form a core of UU identity.

At the moment, in spite of the many rumours that are out there, we do not have plans to tour in 2010.

In spite of that, the young ruler and his ambitious mother were aware that there was opposition to them.

In spite of the appearance there are several difficulties to give a rigorous logical interpretation of the IF-THEN rules.

In spite of its name, there is no purely algebraic proof of the theorem, since any proof must use the completeness of the reals ( or some other equivalent formulation of completeness ), which is not an algebraic concept.

In spite of the severe punishment inflicted on those found in violation of this decree ( Livy claims there were more executions than imprisonment ), the Bacchanalia survived in Southern Italy long past the repression.

He wrote, " Yesterday afternoon's rain was far more interesting than ... The Wind ,... The rain was real, and in spite of the lowering skies there was life and color around you.

In spite of inability to separate out pure radium, they know something is definitely there, as Marie's hands are being burned.

In spite of the intense atmosphere, Franklin and Gosling discovered that there were two forms of DNA: at high humidity ( when wet ), the DNA fibre became long and thin ; when it was dried it became short and fat.