He's always like that, in spite of being a big man.

An example of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marder III and Hetzer vehicle, that were very different in spite of being based on the same chassis: Marder was straightforwardly an anti-tank gun on tracks whereas Hetzer traded some firepower ( its Pak 39, designed to operate within the confines of a fully-armored fighting compartment, fires the same projectiles from a reduced propellant charge compared to Marder's Pak 40 ) for better armor protection and ease of battlefield concealment.

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.

* 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.

Those figures have been overused in several sites, in spite of not being up to date.

In spite of being an old Chaosium's and Stafford's collaborator, Tadashi Ehara was the editor of the magazine during the periods concerned by both publishing houses.

This proved unpopular with soldiers, in spite of being proven to defend against a three-ounce ( 100 g ) shrapnel round fired at a distance of one hundred yards ( 90 m ).

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.

The disc was released in the U. S. via City Hall Records on December 6, and within two weeks had climbed to # 12 on Amazon's best-seller list in spite of being priced over 25 % higher than most CDs in order to raise funds for the Doris Day Animal League.

The metaphysical problem of establishing the material reality of what we perceive was of little interest to Husserl in spite of his being a transcendental idealist.

) The Council of Florence is an example of a council accepted as ecumenical in spite of being rejected by the East, as the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon were rejected by those whom the church considered to have thereby ceased to belong to the church.

Thiers wanted the " middle class accommodated " with the vote, realizing that the petty bourgeoisie ( owners of small business ventures ) supported property interests, in spite of their being ruined by the rise of the larger bourgeoisie.

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

In spite of his being dead, Mel Carnahan won the election 51 % to 49 %.

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.

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.

They didn't write * for the same reason that English spells dogs, not * dogz, in spite of actual pronunciation being.

These are the sacraments of Anointing of the Sick ( which, in spite of not being reserved for the dying, is sometimes mistakenly supposed to be what is meant by " the last rites "), Penance and the Eucharist.

* Vīrya ( vigor ), which indicates the power to retain immateriality as the supreme being in spite of being the material cause of mutable creations

The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father ; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe (" The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite !/ That ever I was born to set it right!

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

They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies, and in spite of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt.

" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.

This meant that in spite of its modest 8-bit CPU the system compared well against the 16-bit machines in the market at the time.

One approximate result is that bodies will usually have reasonably stable orbits around a heavier planet or moon, in spite of these perturbations, provided they are orbiting well within the heavier body's hill sphere.

She is now living well again as her son, the new baronet, has agreed to financially support her ( in spite of her past neglect and indifference towards him ).

Due to Daimler's reluctance to allow Chrysler to continue development and use quality materials, Chrysler vehicles suffered lower fit and finish quality as well as sub-standard parts being supplied and used in spite of concerns.

In spite of those failures, it performed remarkably well at that year's Academy awards ( receiving ten nominations, including one for Burton's performance as Henry VIII ), which many thought to be largely the result of an expensive advertising campaign by Universal Studios.

The content of the decision ( e. g., the stock, amount, time and means ) is the product of an act of prudence, while the actual carrying out of the decision may involve other virtues like fortitude ( doing it in spite of fear of failure ) and justice ( doing his job well out of justice to his company and his family ).

Furthermore, when he draws all the water he wants, Daffy then attempts to destroy the well in spite of the vicious pointlessness of the act, forcing Speedy to stop him.

Reviewing Genesis 1976 – 1982 in Q, Andy Fyfe wrote: "... in spite of 150 million album sales the bottom line is that little of the band ’ s output has aged well ...

In spite of some reverses against the Latin Empire in 1240, John III was able to take advantage of Ivan Asen II's death in 1241 to impose his own suzerainty over Thessalonica ( in 1242 ), and later to annex this city, as well as much of Bulgarian Thrace in 1246.

In spite of their naive design and apparently oversimplified assumptions, naive Bayes classifiers have worked quite well in many complex real-world situations.

Joshi comments that Serling has used pacing well, each correct for the medium and that " in spite of Serling's own doubts on the matter – he mastered the short story technique in every way.

In spite of the intense international criticism and the steady decline in foreign investment and trade, the nuclear tests were popular domestically and Vajpayee's popularity as well as the BJP's prestige rose in response.

# Wrath or anger — feelings of hatred, revenge or denial, as well as punitive desires outside of justice ( Dante's description was " love of justice perverted to revenge and spite ").

Jillian sees the same broadcast, and she and Roy, as well as others with similar visions and experiences, travel to the site in spite of the false public warnings about nerve gas.

In spite of releasing mostly singles, he released a well received blues-inflected LP in 1963, Night Beat, and his most critically acclaimed studio album Ain't That Good News, which featured five singles, in 1964.

In spite of these difficulties, the album itself sold well and produced the hits " Steppin ' in a Slide Zone ", ( no.

He had, however, behaved well in the field, and, in spite of his dismissal, was awarded the New Zealand Medal.

In spite of his Chilean origin, Condorito is very popular throughout Latin America, where the character is considered part of the general popular culture, and has a growing readership in the United States as well.

Home-schooled by their mother as well as private tutors in the United States and Europe, in spite of their father's fluctuating finances, they did not attend a regular school until they were in their teens.

When, therefore, the brothers, as well as delegates of the people's party, which, weary of Hasmonean quarrels, desired the extinction of the dynasty, presented themselves before Pompey, he delayed the decision, in spite of Aristobulus ' gift of a golden vine valued at five hundred talents.

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.

In spite of the fact that it is an active cat, it can live very well indoors.