In spite of his failures, Abdülhamid was regarded as the most gracious Sultan of the Ottomans.

The SEI CERT Program's primary goals are to ensure that appropriate technology and systems-management practices are used to resist attacks on networked systems and to limit damage and ensure continuity of critical services in spite of successful attacks, accidents, or failures.

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.

In spite of his failures as a general and diplomat, his good looks and brilliant wit enabled him to retain the intimacy and confidence of his king.

At the execution, Arthur watches from a distance as Mordred taunts him for his failures ; he is torn between upholding his law and doing his duty as a king, or sparing Guenevere, whom he still loves in spite of everything.

In spite of this, in 1873 a new theater, the Apolo, was opened for zarzuela grande, which shared the failures of the Teatro de la Zarzuela, until it was forced to change its program to género chico.

Their Elf contacts remained confident in the devices in spite of the failures, and would happily provide documentation of previous studies on the fields that were going to be flown over in the tests.

In spite of each man's high opinion of himself, they're both completely inept losers: Stroker fancies himself a suave ladies man, but is perceived by virtually every woman he meets as a repulsive chauvinist ; and Hoop considers himself a crime-solving ace and master of disguise, when in fact he's a naive nerd and all of his disguises are failures.

In spite of Diocletian's attempts at reform, the provincial restructuring was far from clear, especially when citizens appealed the decisions of their governors.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

In spite of Diocletian's request, local judges often enforced executions during the persecution, as capital punishment was among their discretionary powers.

In spite of some favorable background, the Republic of Moldova remains Europe's poorest nation, resisting pursuing the types of reforms that have vastly improved the economies of some of its Eastern European neighbors.

In spite of these reforms, the conquered lands and the city itself were harassed by the rivalry between the two families of Della Gherardesca and Visconti.

However, in spite of extensive reforms by later emperors, the Roman trade network was never able to fully recover to what it had been during the Pax Romana ( 27 B. C .— A. D.

In spite of difficult parliamentary conditions, the Willoch cabinet embarked on a series of reforms that to many seemed like reversals of long-standing social democratic reforms, and to others changes that reflected new and emerging economic realities.

In spite of six years of effort on this task, Stephen was largely unsuccessful in making any reforms.

[...] But in spite of these and other arguments for boundary reforms, action has not been taken ....

The name of the office was changed 8 years later with the Yugoslav constitutional reforms of 1953, into " President of the Executive Council " ( Predsjednik Izvršnog Vijeća ), and remained the central office of Croatian politics in spite of the institution of a collective Presidency ( previously the mostly-nominal function of the head of state belonged to the speaker of the Croatian parliament, the Sabor ).

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!

Starting from his premise, and falling under the sway of the very fears and phobias he himself has played up, Nolte once again defiantly insisted: " If Hitler was a person fundamentally driven by fears-by among others a fear of the " rat cage "- and if this renders " his motivations more understandable ", then the war against the Soviet Union was not only " the greatest war ever of destruction and enslavement ", but also " in spite of this, objectively speaking, a preemptive war. While Nolte may like to describe his motive as the purely scientific interest of ( as he likes to put it ) a solitary thinker in search of a supposedly more complex, more accurate understanding of the years between 1917 and 1945, a number of political implications are clearly present.

" He acknowledged that, in spite of his efforts — in TV programs such as Dancing: A Man's Game ( 1958 ) for example — the situation changed little over the years.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Her book, " Stories of a Sanctified town ", was so true to life that the residents of Robards recognized her characters in spite of changed names and combination of locales.

She was born Marcelle Taillefesse at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France, but as a young woman she changed her last name to " Tailleferre " to spite her father, who had refused to support her musical studies.

However, Nazi policy towards Slavs changed during World War II when Nazi Germany accepted Slavs to serve in its armed forces within occupied territories, in spite of them being considered subhuman, as a pragmatic means to resolve military manpower shortages.

In spite of their popularity ( or perhaps because of it ), legends regarding Sun Wukong have changed with Chinese culture.

In spite of protests by conservationists the canal was opened in 1992 and has changed much of the eastern Altmühl Valley.

Douglas's political landscape also changed significantly in the nineteenth century, in spite of the conservatism shown by some townsfolk: in 1844 for example, at a public meeting, the idea of a town council was rejected in favour of retaining the system of Town High Bailiffs ( when the Town Bill Act was passed at Tynwald in 1852, the people of Douglas again rejected the idea ).

At the parents ' meeting, yet another name change was decided upon which was in keeping with its recent shift toward Ecumenism and also conveyed its character as a boys ' choir, in spite of the changed voices.

* " Go back again, now you have seen us, and your outward eyes have learned that in spite of all the infallible maxims of your day there is yet a time of rest in store for the world, when mastery has changed into fellowship — but not before.

In spite of this, twelve states kept their purchase ages at 21 since repeal of Prohibition and have never changed them.

Picture taken from Gateshead Council public archive. An ordnance survey map of High and Low Felling in 1862In spite of the disaster, Felling continued to grow and by the time of the explosions the character of Felling had changed substantially.

Thus changed into her original form, Smurfette managed to hide by concealing her black hair with a wig ( in spite of her feet being a dead giveaway ) but the Smurfs eventually learned the truth when she arranges the Smurfs to be captured.

The Soviet Encyclopedia clearly points to the fact that the autonomy was declared in spite of the Provisional Government and then the Central Rada changed its mind and went on a compromise and postponement the declaration until the Constituent Assembly convention.

The first of these toys was the " GA-01 " Mazinger Z, which, in spite of questionable engineering that led Popy to offer a free replacement campaign, ignited a craze that changed the face of the Japanese toy industry in the 1970s.

The programming only changed slightly while presentation became more modern, In spite of the fact that channel 40 went dark and Tucson was down to two commercial independents ( including Fox 11 ), KTTU continued to be unprofitable.

One consequence of this is that many spellings come to reflect a word's morphophonemic structure rather than its purely phonemic structure ( for example, the English regular past tense morpheme is consistently spelled-ed in spite of its different pronunciations in various words ).

However, in spite of its initial short term success and critical reaction, as represented by a review in La Gazzetta privilegiata which stated that " A new masterwork has been added to Italian music ..... Belisario not only pleased and delighted, but also conquered, enflamed and ravished the full auditorium ", in the long run, had " Donizetti poured music of the calibre of his Lucia di Lammermoor into the score of Belisario the shortcomings of its wayward plot and dramatic structure would matter less ".

In spite of its military and commercial successes, Genoa fell prey to the internal factions which put pressure on its political structure.

In spite of these services finding some level of consumer demand, none were able to find a pricing structure that paid for their operation while still being interesting to their consumer base.

To spite his neighbor, the butcher built between their adjoining houses a narrow, two-story structure with windows covered by Venetian blinds.

At different levels in the hierarchy of life, such as the stability of a food web, " the same overall structure is maintained in spite of an ongoing flow and change of components.

In spite of these limitations dozens of techniques have been developed over the last seventy years to allow investigations of its structure and function.

In spite of this, the system uses a single fare structure and no transfer is needed between parts run by the two operators.

In spite of the large variety of these proteins, however, the vast majority typically function as interaction modules that bind DNA, RNA, proteins, or other small, useful molecules, and variations in structure primarily serve to alter the binding specificity of a particular protein.

In its structure and functions, the cytochrome bc1 complex bears extensive analogy to the cytochrome b6f complex of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria ; cyt c1 plays an analogous role to cytochrome f, in spite of their different structures.

None of the writing is informed by the sound or structure ( in spite of the composer's recent study of Hebrew cantillation ) of Jewish music generally or any existing tradition for singing the Biblical text.

The simple structure of an alt-azimuth mount allows significant cost reductions, in spite of the additional cost associated with the more complex tracking and image-orienting mechanisms.

The spiritual power of modal traditional music is masterfully reflected in spite of the absence of quarter tones in western orchestral instruments and the uneven rhythmic beats of folk music are exquisitely employed in enchanting harmonic structure and orchestration.

In spite of this, although the amphitheater, near the seashore, was for long used as a quarry, large parts of its structure have survived.

The tertiary structure of this halo is well conserved between different VSGs ( in spite of wide variation in amino acid sequence ) allowing different VSGs to form the physical barrier required to shield the trypanosome's surface.

In both he employed a vigorous and impassioned style which was on the whole wonderfully effective in spite of minor faults in taste and flaws in structure.