If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

Pierre Bourdieu, for instance, argued that in spite the apparent freedom of choice in the arts, people's artistic preferences ( such as classical music, rock, traditional music ) strongly tie in with their social position.

His initial determination to follow the invitation of the Kufan Shiʿites in spite of the numerous warnings he received and his visions of the Prophet reflect a religious conviction of a mission that left him no choice, whatever the outcome.

Tristan and Isolde, in spite of their physical beauty and many accomplishments, which cause them to be generally adored, fall in love not for any such explicable reason, but because the love potion leaves them no choice.

But Marland and Nixon left the series after a few years and in spite of ABC's bumping down Ryan's Hope to give Loving a choice timeslot, and cast additions of such popular All My Children stars as Debbi Morgan and Jean LeClerc, the ratings remained poor throughout the show's run.

Desperate for troops and in spite of his own misgivings about doing so, Megatron then reactivated Starscream ( considering his only other choice was Shockwave, Megatron still felt he had made a good decision ).

In spite of this, based on interviews with local elites, the commission came to the conclusion that while independence was preferred, the Americans were considered the second-best choice for a colonial power, the British the third-best, and the French easily the worst possible choice.

In spite of that, the communists in the Czech National Council refused to accept them as allies and considered them fighters by their own choice.

In spite of Greg's reputation, Buckman comes to trust his daughter's choice.

In spite of its traditional and non-headline-grabbing qualities, it has been highly popular with the general public, though in recent years there has been some controversy over the choice of winners.

* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.

In spite of this, photography actually inspired artists to pursue other means of artistic expression, and rather than compete with photography to emulate reality, artists focused " on the one thing they could inevitably do better than the photograph — by further developing into an art form its very subjectivity in the conception of the image, the very subjectivity that photography eliminated ".

Skeptics noted that Hu Jintao made a statement praising the governments of Cuba and North Korea ( in spite of their economic " flaws ") shortly after announcing Hu Yaobang's public commemoration, implying that it would be unlikely that the party would pursue a dramatic programme of political reform in the near future.

" In spite of his strong attraction to women, he writes of his commitment to painting, " I have only one goal in life that I want to pursue faithfully: to make landscapes.

In spite of his inclination towards the ritual and aesthetic elements of the church, he had little interest in Christian doctrine and did not pursue ordination.

Aura vies with Artemis in a beauty contest, and Artemis, in spite, has Nemesis make Dionysus fall in love with Aura and pursue her.

He subsequently trained to be a teacher but was still determined to pursue his love of mountaineering in spite of his disability.

But, in spite of his musical talents, he soon followed his father's wishes that he pursue a career in engineering.

Yet Kurbas was determined to pursue his course in spite of the increasing threats.

He obtained this parish in spite of his hearing before the Inquisition, which did not stop his secular practices.

However, in spite of the majority of the country's people now being Catholics, there is freedom of religion in the new secular republic, and the former Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri, is a Muslim of Yemeni descent.

Based on this argument, in 1902 W. W. Lawrence concluded that the poem was a “ wholly secular poem revealing the mixed emotions of an adventurous seaman who could not but yield to the irresistible fascination for the sea in spite of his knowledge of its perils and hardships ” ( Pope, 222 ).

Their production was in spite of their artist ’ s working in a post-Tridentine environment that encouraged religious art and restricted secular and public art.

The devotion to Our Lady of Šiluva was suppressed once again during the partition of Lithuania since the event had become a venue for sharing Lithuanian religious and secular books that were smuggled in from Prussia – in spite of a Tsarist ban of any Lithuanian publications in Latin characters.

In spite of the good outcome, Fonda vowed that he would never produce a movie again, fearing that failing as a producer might derail his acting career.

Though far from being a critical success – and in spite of receiving only a dozen or so performances – the popular reaction in favour of Boris made this the peak of Mussorgsky's career.

Once Hopper achieved his mature style, his art remained consistent and self-contained, in spite of the numerous art trends that came and went during his long career.

It was one of the rare flops in his career and barely scraped a run of seven weeks at the Vaudeville Theatre, in spite of the stellar cast of Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Susan Littler, Philip Sayer, Liz Smith ( who replaced Joan Hickson during rehearsals ) and in his first West End role Marc Sinden.

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 his talent and goalscoring prowess, Osgood's England career was surprisingly limited, with England manager Alf Ramsey apparently disapproving of his playboy lifestyle.

In spite of his success with Streisand, Kristofferson's solo musical career headed downward with his non-charting ninth album, Shake Hands with the Devil.

In spite of the success of Highwayman 2 in 1990, Kristofferson's solo recording career slipped significantly in the early 1990s, though he continued to record successfully with the Highwaymen.

In spite of her very short career and limited output, Higuchi is remembered for the quality of her works and is considered to be the first professional female writer in modern Japanese literature.

Throughout his long professorial career, and in all his numerous publications he remained, in spite of occasional deviations on particular points, loyal to the Hegelian tradition as a whole.

After the renewal of the war with Holland in 1621 he gained the most renowned victory of his career, namely the capture of Breda after a long siege ( August 28, 1624-June 5, 1625 ) and in spite of the most strenuous efforts of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange to save it.

They explained what they called " the Smoky Joe Wood Syndrome ," where a truly exceptional player had a career curtailed by injury, in spite of not having had career statistics that would quantitatively rank him with the all-time greats, should still be included on their list of the 100 greatest players.

In spite of being only 4 ' 11 " ( 1. 5 metres ), Zoe pursued a modelling career and became the most photographed and highly paid model of the time, appearing on the front of popular magazines such as Picturegoer.

They explained what they called " the Smoky Joe Wood Syndrome ," where a player of truly exceptional talent but a career curtailed by injury should still, in spite of not having had career statistics that would quantitatively rank him with the all-time greats, be included on their list of the 100 greatest players.

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.

At the close of the month he resigned his post on being elected, in spite of his youth, a deputy to the National Convention by the département of Seine-et-Oise, and he began his legislative career by defending the conduct of the Commune during the massacres.

This award is given a Mom who inspires others, in spite of career and family challenges.

Multatuli now began his literary career, and published Love Letters ( 1861 ), which, in spite of their mild title, were mordant, unsparing satires.

In spite of interest from bigger clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur in 1990 and Chelsea in 1996, Le Tissier remained at Southampton for his entire professional career, his loyalty garnering special affection from Southampton's fans who nicknamed him " Le God ".

In his last year as a Director he secured appointments as lecturers for ten early career scholars, in spite of the financial deficit of UCL.

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.

However, in spite of his expulsion, Gašparovič was able to continue his legal career and from 1968 to July 1990, he was a teacher at the Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminological Practice at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava.