In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

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.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

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.

The Egyptian Navy is known to be the strongest in the African continent, and the largest in the Middle East in spite of the rapid growth of other countries ' navies within the region.

While the party set up a new youth league, which came to be called Moderate Youth League or The Young Swedes ( currently the largest youth league in Sweden in terms of membership ), the core of the old one ( in spite of some districts, such as Young Swedes-Gothenburg joining the new one ) set up its own party-the National League of Sweden-which fought elections as an openly pro-Nazi party and temporarily gained parliamentary representation in shape of three rightist MPs.

In spite of his troubled campaign, Lenihan won the largest number of first-preference votes.

In spite of the boycott, Pemex developed into one of the largest oil companies in the world and helped Mexico become the fifth-largest oil exporter in the world.

In spite of the fact that Red Star Belgrade controlled the largest part of the 1991 European Super Cup final, and the fact that Savićević glittered at the " Theatre of Dreams ", the only goal was scored by McClair.

In spite of this, Finn. no had by 2005 grown to become Norway's largest and most comprehensive site for classified advertising, such as real estate and used vehicles.

In spite of his observations of solitons in wave tank experiments, Scott Russell never recognized them as such, because of his focus on the " great wave of translation ," the largest amplitude solitary wave.

Wall, a staunch defender of Spain's neutral policy, successfully kept the country out of war for the remainder of Ferdinand's reign, in spite of the outbreak of the largest European war since the Thirty Years ' War, the Seven Years ' War.

The blend of orchestral colors is carefully planned and highlighted in the piece, which, in spite of Scholz's request, calls for one of the largest ensembles for any of his compositions: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets ( both doubling on B-flat and C clarinets ), two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns ( two in C and two in E ), three C trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, and strings.

In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.

But in spite of the best efforts of Atchison and the Ruffians, Kansas did reject slavery and finally became a free state in 1861.

The " Limbo of the Patriarchs " or " Limbo of the Fathers " ( Latin limbus patrum ) is seen as the temporary state of those who, in spite of the personal sins they may have committed, died in the friendship of God, but could not enter Heaven until redemption by Jesus Christ made it possible.

In spite of his service to ( and in his artwork the glorification of ) the government, he was hardly a great supporter of the monarchy or of the state church.

But if that be entirely intrusted to the magistracy ,-- a select body of men, and those generally selected, by the prince, of such as enjoy the highest offices of the state ,-- these decisions, in spite of their own natural integrity, will have frequently an involuntary bias towards those of their own rank and dignity.

* October 23 – In Paris, the Vietnam-backed government of the state of Cambodia signs an agreement with the Khmer Rouge to end the civil war and bring the Khmer Rouge into government in spite of its role in the Cambodian genocide.

The Jennings family approved the release in spite of the launch of a new business focused on his state.

They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

In spite of the League of Nations ' approach, the new state was diplomatically recognised by El Salvador ( 3 March 1934 ) and the Dominican Republic ( 1934 ), the Soviet Union ( de facto 23 March 1935 ; de jure 13 April 1941 ), Italy ( 29 November 1937 ), Francoist Spain ( 2 December 1937 ), Germany ( 12 May 1938 ) and Hungary ( 9 January 1939 ).

In spite of supporting the government from the backbenches, Seán MacBride, the leader of Clann na Poblachta, tabled a motion of no confidence, based on the weakening state of the economy and in opposition to the government's stance on the IRA.

For example, in a LR ( 1 ) grammar, all of the following rules transition to a different state in spite of being based on the same state sequence.

Most recently, the town served as the backdrop for Paul Cuadros ' novel A Home on the Field, a true story about his experience coaching an Hispanic high school soccer team to a state championship in spite of adversity.

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.

Available sources however document that the responsible state commission clearly advocated the continuation of Wies as a pilgrimage site, even in spite of economic objections from the abbot of Steingaden.

He represented to the Jacobites — what was probably in the main true — that though eager for their success his weak health and advanced years prevented him from joining the standard of the prince in person, while to the Lord President Forbes he professed his cordial attachment to the existing state of things, but lamented that his son, in spite of all his remonstrances, had joined Bonnie Prince Charlie, and succeeded in taking with him a strong force from the clan of the Frasers.

Allying himself with Lady Castlemaine, he encouraged Charles's increasing dislike of Clarendon ; and he was made secretary of state in October 1662 in spite of the opposition of Clarendon, who had to find him a seat in parliament.

In spite of the Action Françaises support for Roman Catholicism as state religion and the fact that the vast majority of its members were practising Catholics ( indeed, they included significant numbers of clergy ), some Catholics regarded it with distrust.

Self-discipline can be defined as the ability to motivate oneself in spite of a negative emotional state.

In spite of the combined efforts of state and local governments in Idaho and Colorado, the Mine Owners ' Associations, the Pinkerton and Thiel Detective Agencies, and other interested industrialists, the jury acquitted Bill Haywood.

During the Nieuw Holland episode, the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege, in spite of the presence of the Count John Maurice of Nassau as governor ( 1637 – 1644 ) in Recife.

In 2005, in spite of opposition from the Alaska Legislature, Murkowski purchased a Westwind II jet with state money for $ 2. 7 million.