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spite and 1906
In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, the couple married on 23 January 1906: their first two children, Fyodor ( Theodore ) and Ludmila, were born in 1907 and 1908, respectively.
Jan C. Smuts wrote in 1906 of the Raid, " The Jameson Raid was the real declaration of war ... And that is so in spite of the four years of truce that followed ... aggressors consolidated their alliance ... the defenders on the other hand silently and grimly prepared for the inevitable.
In spite of his ill health, Pillsbury beat American champion Jackson Showalter in 1897 to win the U. S. Chess Championship, a title he held until his death in 1906.
So was it for George Tyrrell, English Jesuit, who was expelled from the Society and excommunicated in 1906 in spite of Martin ’ s intervention.
In spite of objections from his father-in-law, Raja Mahendra Pratap went to Kolkata in 1906 to attend the Congress session and met several leaders involved in the Swadeshi movement.
Under the Curtis Act of 1898, the government of the Cherokee Nation was dissolved in 1906, in spite of the resistance of many of its members.

spite and 1920
Both the Swedish-speaking Åbo Akademi University ( 1918 ) and the Finnish speaking University of Turku ( 1920 ) are much newer entities in Turku, although they claim an academic tradition at the location since the 17th century, in spite of a break for almost a century.
* c. 1920 – Alex Jordan Sr. vowed to " put up a Japanese house on one of those pinnacle rocks " to spite Frank Lloyd Wright

spite and United
* 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.
However, in spite of this clear ruling, Morse still received no official recognition from the United States government.
It was therefore " disgraceful " for Britain to belong to such a body that engaged in " pure spite for spite's sake against the United Kingdom ": " We were, and are, the victims of our own insincerity.
In spite of these criticisms, federal government support has made abstinence the de facto focus of sex education in the United States, so that opponents frequently adopt the line that abstinence education is acceptable only if it is combined with other methods, such as instruction in the use of condoms, and easy availability thereof.
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.
In spite of it, Zaharoff used perverted methods, well-known later on, and was able to made controversy between the inventor and his own government and obtained, in the end, the Spanish government's disapproval of the invention of the submarine, which would have been a formidable weapon in the conflict with the United States, several years after.
Kelly is about to wed a Japanese woman, Katsumi, in spite of the disapproval of the United States military, which will not recognize the marriage.
A huge step was taken in 1992 when The Netherlands signed the first open skies agreement with the United States, in spite of objections from the European Union authorities.
In spite of being engulfed by the Confederacy, the United States flag continued to fly over Avilla, boldly hoist to the top of a flagpole in the town center park and guarded by the townsmen.
At the United Nations Aiken took an independent stance and backed the admission of China to the organisation, in spite of huge protests from the United States.
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.
In spite of continuing pressure and obvious preparations in the United States for an invasion of Haïti, the junta refused to yield.
The book went through a number of republishings-in the United States it acquired the even more confident subheader " This book will change your life ", in spite of its being a highly edited version of the original.
In spite of these problems, the United States Federal Communication Commission selected a sequential-frame 144 frame / s standard from CBS as their color broadcast in 1950.
We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral.
In spite of the huge amount of French literature discussing the Black Mass ( Messe Noire ) at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century — no set of written instructions for performing one, from any purported group of Satanists, turned up in writing until the 1960s, and appeared not in France, but in the United States.
After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".
As late as 1880, Charles Bradlaugh was denied a seat as an MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom as because of his professed atheism he was judged unable to swear the Oath of Allegiance in spite of his proposal to swear the oath as a " matter of form ".
In spite of these advancements, the housing types where most people in the United States reside – single-family homes – are not covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act, or any other federal law with the exception of the small percentage of publicly funded homes impacted by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Even in spite of the mixed reviews, the game sold 1. 44 million units in the United States alone, making it one of the GameCube's highest selling games.
In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music influences from Britain and the United States, Irish music has kept many of its traditional aspects and has itself influenced many forms of music, such as country and roots music in the USA, which in turn have had some influence on modern rock music.
In spite of the lack of competition, or perhaps to preempt it, Topps also created two sets of cards for the short-lived United States Football League in the 1980s.

spite and States
The Jolof Empire was founded by a voluntary confederacy of States ; it was not an empire built on military conquest in spite of what the word " empire " implies.
Machel issued a dossier to Frontline States with evidence that Banda was still supporting the insurgents in spite of the 1984 agreement to stop.
In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music imported from the rest of Europe and the United States, the music of Scotland has kept many of its traditional aspects ; indeed, it has itself influenced many forms of music.

spite and formally
Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).
Soon after the emperors ' accession, Marcus ' eleven-year-old daughter, Annia Lucilla, was betrothed to Lucius ( in spite of the fact that he was, formally, her uncle ).
The principalities of Romania ( which was also forced by Russia to cede the Budjak region of the Danube delta, in spite of an existing treaty of alliance between the two countries ), Serbia and Montenegro, each of which had had de facto sovereignty for some time, formally proclaimed independence from the Ottoman Empire.
In spite of the arrangement with the Union, Tilly then devastated the Rhenish Palatinate, and in February 1623 Maximilian was formally invested with the electoral dignity and the attendant office of imperial steward, which had been enjoyed since 1356 by the Counts Palatine of the Rhine.
In spite of never being formally conquered, the Republic began to pay tribute to the khans of the Golden Horde.

spite and Great
Now, however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the feet of the Great Bear constellation do sink below the horizon from Rome and especially from Athens – so Ursa Major gets to cool her feet and legs in the sea, in spite of Ovid ; however, Ursa Minor ( Arcas ) does remain completely above the horizon, even from latitudes as far south as Honolulu and Hong Kong.
The remaining church at large – clergy, monks and assembly of believers – accepted the council in spite of its failure to heal the rift of the Great Schism.
In spite of long recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains, the grasslands of the Great Plains are not subject to great soil erosion.
On the 17th day of the Great War when Karna is trying to extricate his chariot from the mud, Arjuna ( in spite of all the cruelty and unchivalrous acts previously meted out by Karna to the Pandavas ) hesitates to kill Karna.
This was why, in spite of the restrictions in its powers that the Senate introduced over the centuries, the Great Council continued to be seen as bastion of Republican equality.
Thus, during the Great Depression, the company maintained steady production levels in spite of the lack of demand for aluminum.
In spite of resistance from lumberers at Elkmont and difficulties with the Tennessee legislature, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was opened in 1934.
Raynal escaped to Spa, and thence to Berlin, where he was coolly received by Frederick the Great, in spite of his connection with the philosophe party.
In spite of economic turmoil, NFL continued to grow during the Great Depression.
In spite of the objections of Hudson, for the Midland, and others, the new " London and York Railway ", ( later the Great Northern Railway ) led by Edmund Denison persisted, and the bill passed through Parliament in 1846.
At Vienna, in spite of the powerful backing of Alexander of Russia, he failed to secure the annexation of the whole of Saxony to Prussia ; at Paris, after Waterloo, he failed to carry through his views as to the further dismemberment of France ; he had weakly allowed Metternich to forestall him in making terms with the states of the Confederation of the Rhine, which secured to Austria the preponderance in the German federal diet ; on the eve of the conference of Carlsbad ( 1819 ) he signed a convention with Metternich, by which — to quote the historian Treitschke — “ like a penitent sinner, without any formal quid pro quo, the monarchy of Frederick the Great yielded to a foreign power a voice in her internal affairs .”
MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?
In spite of these measures, the strel ' tsy revolted yet again while Peter was on his Great Embassy in Europe.
On the Index of Multiple Deprivation, Great Sankey was described as one of the most affluent areas of Warrington, in spite of this, 2. 80 % of residents are on benefits.
In spite of the onset of the Great Depression, Loblaw continued to expand,
In 1858, the year of the Great Stink, Parliament passed an enabling act, in spite of the colossal expense of the project, and Bazalgette's proposals to revolutionise London's sewerage system began to be implemented.
In spite of the early belief that such locomotives were inherently unsafe, the idea quickly caught on, particularly for industrial use and five manufacturers exhibited designs at The Great Exhibition in 1851.
In spite of these measures, the streltsy revolted yet again while Peter was on his Great Embassy in Europe.
Among his best parts were Herod the Great in Mariamne, Nero in Britannicus and similar tragic roles, in spite of the fact that he was short, stout, and lacking in good looks.
" Schacht was convinced that if the German government were ever to commence a wholesale reindustrialization and rearmament in spite of the restrictions imposed by Germany's treaty obligations, it would have to be during a period lacking clear international consensus among the Great Powers.
" The Kambojas | Kambhojas on the Indos ( Indus ), the Taksas of Taxila | Taksila, the Madras and Kathas ( Kathaioi ) on Akesines ( Chenab ), the Malla ( Malloi ) on the Hydraotis ( Iravati or Ravi River | Ravi ), the Tugras on the Hesidros ( Sutlej ) had formed important populations of the Punjab in the pre-Alexandrian age and stubbornly opposed Alexander the Great | Alexander on the Indus and, in spite of his victories on Hydaspes ( Jhelum River | Jhelum ) and Sakala ( Sangala, Sialkot ), had finally led him and his soldiers to abandon his planned conquest of India and retire to Babylonia ".
This was the beginning of 3M ’ s diversification into all manner of marketplaces and helped them to flourish in spite of the Great Depression.
In spite of attempts to arrange more favourable price agreements, the Yorkshire coal owners felt aggrieved and proposed the Coalowners ' Associated ( London ) Railway, with the help of the MS & L and the Great Eastern.
The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of excellent service under Turenne, The Great Condé and Luxembourg, and of his aristocratic birth.

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