Even Sally, in spite of her gaiety and obvious welcome, followed the old taboo of `` quitting the gab when wearing the nosebag ''.

In spite of the hundred things he had on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her waist.

He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus.

She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

Deirdre was freed after three weeks, with Granada stating that they had always intended for her to be released, in spite of the media interest.

In spite of knowing about her feelings, Liam married Maria Sutherland.

Now, however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the feet of the Great Bear constellation do sink below the horizon from Rome and especially from Athens – so Ursa Major gets to cool her feet and legs in the sea, in spite of Ovid ; however, Ursa Minor ( Arcas ) does remain completely above the horizon, even from latitudes as far south as Honolulu and Hong Kong.

Enid Blyton's status as a bestselling author is in spite of disapproval of her works from various perspectives, which has led to altered reprints of the books and withdrawals or “ bans ” from libraries.

Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

Orwell's widow commissioned journalist Malcolm Muggeridge to write a biography of her husband in spite of his wishes that none be produced.

Even Helen mourns Hector, for he had always been kind to her and protected her from spite.

* 1993 – Brooke Greenberg, American child who has remained the size of a toddler, in spite of being in her late teens.

Murray responded to much criticism by claiming that it was religiously motivated, coming from Christians who did not want her theories to be true: in one case she stated that her theory had received " a hostile reception from many strictly Christian sects and reviewers, but it made its way in spite of opposition.

In spite of depictions in various dramatizaions, Maria Feodorovna never met Anna Anderson, the impostor who falsely claimed to be her murdered granddaughter Anastasia.

In spite of the some of the edicts issued by Constantius, it should be recognised that he was not fanatically anti-pagan – he never made any attempt to disband the various Roman priestly colleges or the Vestal Virgins, he never acted against the various pagan schools, and, at times, he actually made some effort to protect paganism.

This occurs in spite of the distinctions military forces attempt to make between officers and enlisted men.

* 1999 – The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.

" Some have argued that, in spite of Italian Fascism's attempt at totalitarianism, it became an authoritarian cult of personality around Mussolini.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.

In telecommunication, a called-party camp-on is a communication system service feature that enables the system to complete an access attempt in spite of issuance of a user blocking signal.

In telecommunication, a calling-party camp-on is a service feature that enables the telephone exchange to complete an access attempt in spite of temporary unavailability of system transmission or switching facilities required to establish the requested access.

A player also has the option to spend a spite token as a failure point to aid in thwarting an opponent's murder attempt.

In spite of what was for many years a standing offer of $ 50, 000 for a live, healthy snake over long by the New York Zoological Society ( NYZS ), known since 1993 as the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ), no attempt to claim this reward was ever made.

In spite of an attempt to re-enter racing at the International Voiturette Cup of 1921 the directors called in the liquidators later in the year.

In spite of their instructions, Grey continued to advocate union, and, in connection with other matters, such as the attempt to settle soldiers in South Africa after the Crimean War, he several times disregarded his instructions.

A small Bulgarian unit, which soon became a full division moved into the city and immediately started an attempt to establish a condominium in spite of initial assurances to the contrary, showing no intentions to leave.

In spite of all the difficult progress made, Loblaw would still have occasion to make strategic missteps in coming years, as it continued to innovate and attempt to anticipate the demands of the marketplace in a highly retail sector.

In spite of this, the New Jersey Legislature, led by Richard W. DeKorte, created the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission ( since renamed New Jersey Meadowlands Commission ) in 1968 to attempt to address both economic and environmental issues concerning the wetland region.

He beleaguered the Hethumids at Lampron ( now Namrun Kalesi in Turkey ), but in spite of a long siege his attempt to take this stronghold failed.

… He also alluded to Smith-Dorrien's conduct on the retreat, and said he ought to have tried him by Court Martial, because ( on the day of Le Cateau ) he ' had ordered him to retire at 8 am and he did not attempt to do so insisted on fighting in spite of his orders to retire '.

In spite of the kink in array ( about a panel and a half from the end ), after a review by HST program managers, flight controllers decided to continue with the pre-flight plan and attempt to roll up and retract the solar arrays at the end of the first EVA.

Lilith admits that the whole seduction ploy was an attempt to spite Frasier, but then Frasier and Lilith make up with an embrace at the end.

Raines became a free agent on November 12, 1986, but in spite of his league-leading play, no team made a serious attempt to sign him.

A few months later the attempt of Giovanni Passannante to assassinate King Humbert at Naples ( 12 December 1878 ) caused his downfall, in spite of the courage displayed and the severe wound received by him in protecting the king's person on that occasion.

" She claimed Johnson had a fear that Hawaii would send representatives and senators to Congress who would oppose segregation, in spite of Johnson's record as a supporter of civil rights for blacks ( Johnson had hedged in his support for the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to avoid splitting his party, giving it modest support and was to finally break up a Southern Democratic attempt to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1960 ).

In spite of heavy fighting, the Kongolese were unable to break the Portuguese formation and António was killed in the final attempt.

In spite of his celebrated film career, his short stint in politics became a futile attempt.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

In spite of this, and further major changes to its borders that saw it become a south-western Sydney suburban electorate over 150 km away from Lake George, it has retained the name of Werriwa, primarily as it is an original Federation electorate-the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original Federation electorates where possible.

In spite of opposition from historical interests, who wanted to preserve the Market House, Duncan pushed forward with the transition, and by mid-1960 the Market House had been removed.

In spite of care to preserve impartiality between the conflicting views of China and Japan, the effect of the Report was regarded as a substantial vindication of the Chinese case on most fundamental issues.

But in spite of all the suffering which Portugal had brought upon the Jews, there yet remained enough patriotism in the hearts of her rejected Jewish sons to cause them to help their former oppressors to preserve their old possessions on the Moroccan coast and to gain new ones.

The Swedish workers have proved that in spite of all the vicissitudes of bourgeois policy .... they will be able to preserve and defend the complete equality and class solidarity of the workers of both nations in the struggle against both the Swedish and the Norwegian bourgeoisie.

In spite of a viable counter-proposal ( dubbed the Dumbbell Proposal and designed by professional architect Christopher Law, it proposed to keep intact the signature six-storey Tong Lau in the middle part of the street and would have rendered possible to preserve the community ) by the H15 Concern Group and strong protests by residents ( including a hunger strike by May Je ) and other activists, the URA and the government went on to demolish the street as planned.