In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

In spite of the PDP-6's limited commercial success, it introduced many features that clearly had commercial benefit.

Brown's concert success, however, remained unabated and Brown kept up with a grueling schedule throughout the remainder of his life, living up to his previous nickname, " The Hardest Working Man in Show Business ", in spite of his advanced age.

In spite of the controversy, the rebuilt Potsdamer Platz now attracts around 70, 000 visitors a day, rising to 100, 000 at weekends, and some critics have been surprised by the success of the new quarter.

In spite of his earlier hesitation to go through with the exchange, he had no doubts about his success, stating that Aleppo was " the key to the lands " and " this city is the eye of Syria and the citadel is its pupil.

Their marriage was a success, in spite of the age difference, and in spite of Yeats ' feelings of remorse and regret during their honeymoon.

) In spite of the LP's success, soon after its release a contractual dispute with their label, Virgin Records, saw XTC go " on strike " from 1992 through 1998, which finally resulted in the termination of their contract.

The early Spectrum models ' great success as a games platform came in spite of its lack of built-in joystick ports, primitive sound generation, and colour support that was optimised for text display: the hardware limitations of the platform required a particular level of creativity from video game designers.

In spite of a success sustained over many years, his musical ambition took him to Madrid, where zarzuela had a higher profile.

* December 14 The play Douglas is performed for the first time in Edinburgh, with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the local church presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.

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 ".

Garfield returned to Washington very glum in spite of his success, taking the campaign criticism quite hard.

In spite of initial difficulties, he started directing in the United States, and achieved success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

This influential group of people took sides against the development of Isaac Peral's submarine, and the Spanish Government, in spite of the notorious success of the official tests, finally closed the project.

In spite of Italy's poor showing, Prussia's success on the northern front obliged Austria to cede Venetia.

In spite of the series ' success, Alger was on financially uncertain ground and tutored the five sons of international banker Joseph Seligman.

But she was also paid less than many of the supporting " farceurs " billed beneath her, in spite of her much more central role in the films ' great financial success.

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.

He played alongside Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn ( 1942 ) and later Blue Skies ( 1946 ) but, in spite of the enormous financial success of both, was reportedly dissatisfied with roles where he lost the girl to Crosby.

Lawrence's love affairs were not happy ( his tortuous relationships with Sally and Maria Siddons became the subject of several books ) and, in spite of his success, he spent most of life deep in debt.

In spite of the disappointing profits for the author, the book was a huge artistic success with most critics responding positively.

In spite of these reverses, Irene's military efforts met with some success: in 782 her favoured courtier Staurakios subdued the Slavs of the Balkans and laid the foundations of Byzantine expansion and re-Hellenization in the area.

In spite of their rich musical invention, neither of these operas met with the same success but both exerted great influence on the composers of the rising generation, like Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni and Umberto Giordano.

Because the private eye intends to save society in spite of himself, he invariably finds himself in trouble with the police.

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.

The day passed without incident in spite of the warning of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri: `` Baker, you will have the streets of our American cities running with blood on registration day ''.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

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.

Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.

In spite of the defects in this system, the figures on total population during the late 1930's and again in the early 1950's seem to have represented actual conditions in most districts with approximate fidelity.

Yet, in spite of this, intensive study of the taped interviews by teams of psychotherapists and linguists laid bare the surprising fact that, in the first five minutes of an initial interview, the patient often reveals as many as a dozen times just what's wrong with him ; ;

Interestingly, the geographic borderlines between the different accents ( isoglosses ) coincide strongly with the borders of the states and also with the border with Bavaria, with Bavarians having a markedly different rhythm of speech in spite of the similarities in the language.

In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">

In spite of several not insignificant reverses at the hands of Bulgarians, Serbians, and Ottomans, the Emperor had provided the Empire with active leadership, had cooperated with able administrators, and had come closer than any of his predecessors in re-establishing Byzantine control over the Greek peninsula.

In spite of the resolution of problems in Europe, Andronikos II was faced with the collapse of the Byzantine frontier in Asia Minor, despite the successful, but short, governorships of Alexios Philanthropenos and John Tarchaneiotes.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

This means that in spite of long having been the Celtic language with the highest number of speakers, the language is now endangered.

In spite of this, in 1975 Bliss granted an exclusive world license, for use with handicapped children, to the new Blissymbolics Communication Foundation directed by Shirley McNaughton ( later called Blissymbolics Communication International, BCI ).

In spite of the hopes of many on the left, nationalisation failed to provide workers with a greater say in the running of the industries in which they worked.

" Meinhof did this in spite of earlier work by scholars such as Lepsius and Johnston demonstrating that the languages which he would later dub " Nilo-Hamitic " were in fact Nilotic languages with numerous similarities in vocabulary with other Nilotic languages.