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.

In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.

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 ).

* Residual functional capacity, a term used in the adjudication of claims for Social Security disability benefits to denote a claimant's maximum capacity to do things in spite of his or her impairments

In spite of his immense recuperative capacity, Fox found that by late August he was exhausted before he began his day's run.

In spite of the candid language and depictions of guerilla war and gory violence, the book feels more like a 19th-century classic along the lines of Melville and Conrad than a modern blood-and-guts thriller, although it serves quite well in the latter capacity.

It was of compact design, retaining in spite of its large seating capacity much of the intimate actor / audience contact of the Elizabethan theater, still with an almost Elizabethan-size forestage or apron stage, on which actors would come forward for maximum audience contact.

This excess backbone capacity exists in spite of the trend of increasing per-user data rates and overall quantity of data.

This capacity for independent command made Napoleon, in spite of his defeats at the Trebia and the Battle of Katzbach, trust him with large commands till the end of his career.

Its long stroke and large capacity made for very good ' towing ' torque, while its thick castings and relatively loose tolerances gave it a reputation for reliability in spite of abuse.

In spite of their identical clonal nature at the DNA level, they are strongly differentiated across a wide range of characteristics including anatomical and physiological differences, longevity of the queen, and reproductive capacity.

In spite of surging demand, an addition 10, 000 seats were opened expanding the total capacity to roughy 45, 700, though the announced crowd was 46, 011.

The fact was, that in spite of all the resources brought to bear, CGL did not have the human or technical capacity to create film quality sequences on the hardware of the time.

In spite of this, thanks to their improved frame, the Navigator's towing capacity increased for 2007, approaching in two-wheel drive models.

But in spite of modernisation, the factory could not maintain profit thereafter even after exceeding rated ( attainable ) capacity mainly because of unscientific division of the company, higher production cost and comparatively lower sale price of fertilizers, mounting wage bills, higher maintenance expenditure due to ageing of plants, availability of raw materials of low specifications / quality large infrastructure cost, and eventually the Government of India decided to close of the factory operation in September 2002.

However, most of the prefabs containing asbestos were demolished between 1994 and 1997, in spite of a campaign to retain them in a renovated capacity.

It seems to run indefinitely in spite of a limited fuel capacity.

In spite of its sophisticated design, however, it could not compete with contemporary diesel trucks for all-round convenience and payload capacity, and was phased out in the late 1930s.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

At Yalta the West still believed that Eastern Europe could be kept in its orbit, in spite of the onrushing Soviet armies.

In 1184, in spite of his great age, he still had sufficient energy to relieve his son Dom Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors.

The Froling spite house is still standing and occupied.

In spite of the rather slow post-recession recovery, in terms of income per capita Croatia is still ahead of some European Union member states such as Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.

In spite of updated sets and production changes, Coronation Street still received criticism.

In spite of a generous income, old debts still couldn't be paid.

The gnutella protocol remains under development and in spite of attempts to make a clean break with the complexity inherited from the old gnutella 0. 4 and to design a clean new message architecture, it is still one of the most successful file-sharing protocols to date.

In spite of the significant drop in the last decade, food industry is still giving up to 14 % of total industrial production and amounts to 7-8 % of the country's exports.

In spite of many measures taken by the government, convicts still were released without proper treatment.

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.

She manoeuvred to have the Norwegian Council recognize him as heir to the throne of Norway, in spite of his not being first in the line of succession, and he was installed as king of Norway in 1389, still with Margaret as his guardian.

Washington still suggested to the Navajo that in spite of the hostile situation, they and the whites could “ still be friends if the Navajo came with their chiefs the next day and signed a treaty ”.

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

Through the lean years of 1960s and 1970s the Giants, in spite of a 17-year-long playoff drought, still accumulated a 20-year-long waiting list for season tickets.

He prefaced the order by stating: " As England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, still shows no signs of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her.

In spite of the insistence of Honorius III, Frederick II still delayed, and the Egyptian campaign failed miserably with the loss of Damietta on 8 September 1221.

The large number of candidates demonstrates that the topic, in spite of rapid progress, is still in its infancy.

Sexological findings, in spite of being scientifically based, can still become controversial when they contradict " mainstream ", religious, or political beliefs in a given society.

However, in spite of this clear ruling, Morse still received no official recognition from the United States government.

Swedish traditional dishes, some of which are many hundreds of years old, others perhaps a century or less, are still a very important part of Swedish everyday meals, in spite of the fact that modern day Swedish cuisine adopts many international dishes.

In spite of this the site is still mostly functioning and specifications can still be downloaded ( as of 31 January 2012 ).