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.

) 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.

Hallstein referred to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in spite of the latter's recognition of East Germany as a " singular act " because of the Soviet Union's privileged status as an occupying power.

In spite of fierce opposition from Scott and other East Tennessee counties, the ordinance passed and Tennessee seceded from the Union in June 1861.

Paul Oliver also wrote that George W. Thomas " composed the theme of the New Orleans Hop Scop Blues – in spite of its title – based on the blues he had heard played by the pianists of East Texas.

Negotiations for the marriage began during the reign of King Charles I, were renewed immediately after the Restoration, and on 23 June 1661, in spite of Spanish opposition, the marriage contract was signed, England securing Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( in India ), with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

In spite of persecution and a serious decline in membership since their height around the fourth century, the Assyrian Church of the East has survived into the 21st century.

In spite of the fact that the churches of the East ( later to be known as the Eastern Orthodox Church ) and West ( later to be known as the Roman Catholic Church ) were now reunited, in practice they were already diverging, and continued to separate further over the next 500 years.

In spite of accusations by the Suharto regime that East Timor's independence movement, Fretilin, was communist, many of its leaders had trained to be priests, and their philosophy probably owed more to the Catholic liberation theology of Latin America than to Marxism.

In spite of frequent placings in the bottom half of the league table, they would persist as the only former East German side able to consistently challenge the well-heeled clubs of the west.

Senator Andrew Johnson and Congressman Horace Maynard — who in spite of being from a Confederate state retained their seats in Congress — continuously pressed President Abraham Lincoln to send troops into East Tennessee, and Lincoln subsequently made the " liberation " of East Tennessee a top priority.

When after a stay of more than a year the Swedish embassy prepared to return, Kaempfer joined the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in the Persian Gulf as chief surgeon, and in spite of fever caught at Bander Abbasi he found opportunity to see something of Arabia and of many of the western coast-lands of India.

Likewise, out of the Dischord label, Interscope Records would sign Helmet after a reportedly " ferocious " bidding war between several major record companies, and while MTV would air some videos by the group, which by the time of the release of their major-label debut Meantime, was considered then as " the only band close to the Seattle grunge sound " on the American East Coast and would be hailed as " the next big thing ", these expectations would " never be fully realized " in spite of the record's later influence.

Howard related to Myers a conversation he had with Lincoln in 1863 in which the president expressed a desire to do something to help the people of East Tennessee, a majority of whom remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War in spite of the greater state's secession, and, remembering Kehr's suggestion, agreed to help Myers establish a university in Lincoln's honor.

Indeed, in spite of the increasing importance of Greek, the use of Aramaic was also expanding, and it would eventually be dominant among Jews both in the Holy Land and elsewhere in the Middle East around 200 AD ; it would remain so until the Arab conquest in the 7th century.

In spite of this concurrency, as of 2005 the eastbound I-74 exit to Camp Street was only marked for U. S. 150, while the next eastbound exit to Washington Street was marked as " To Illinois 8 " even though Washington Street is unnumbered in East Peoria.

In 1847 his period of service was completed, and he went home to Ireland, to a life of retirement ; but both in 1856 and again in 1862 he went out to the East to take a part in further surveys and negotiations for the Euphrates valley railway scheme, which, however, the government would not take up, in spite of a favourable report from the House of Commons committee in 1871.

The trouble with The Decline of Eastern Christianity is that in spite of the gathering of an enormous amount of historical material, and although she has raised an issue that well deserves study, Bat Ye ' or has written a polemical tract, not responsible historical analysis. Meanwhile, the historical question remains to be answered: why is it that from the mid-7th century to the 20th century the number of Christians in the Islamic world has dwindled from a majority in many areas of the Middle East to virtual insignificance in terms of demography?

However, in spite of early signs of success, Holtz completed his second season with the Bulls carrying an unimpressive career 0. 286winning percentage in the Big East, a 0-2 record in homecoming games, and bowl ineligibility for first time since the Bulls joined the Big East in 2005.

In spite of all this the East India Company was again in the verge of bankruptcy which stirred them to a fresh effort at reform.

In spite of his empathy with the sepoys, Savage does not realise that fear and resentment are driving them to intrigue with local rulers and other conspirators against the rule of the British East India Company.

In spite of all this and the introduction of more recent Pacifics, by the middle of the 1950s Gresley types were continuing to have the quasi-monopoly of East Coast Main Line express passenger services, and as the Sixties approached they went through yet another series of improvements comparable to those of the 1920s.

* 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 resistance from lumberers at Elkmont and difficulties with the Tennessee legislature, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was opened in 1934.

In spite of this, White won Tennessee, as well as Georgia, giving him 26 electoral votes, the third highest total behind Van Buren's 170 and Harrison's 73.

In spite of Ladd's Golden Globe-winning performance as Belle, the character was not retained for the duration of the series and replaced early in 1981, the character making one last appearance in which she telephones the diner to inform everyone that she had taken a job as a backup singer in Nashville, Tennessee.

Price was lightly recruited coming out of Meadowdale High School in Dayton in spite of being a high school All-American and was considered a spare part when he enrolled at the University of Tennessee in 1995.

The Manumission Society of Tennessee was active in the county as early as 1815, and the Quakers — who were relatively-numerous in Blount at the time — were so vehemently opposed to slavery that they fought alongside the Union army, in spite of their pacifist agenda.

Widely considered a very holy priest in spite of his siding with landlords against the growing Land League movement, he was appointed parish priest of Knock-Aghamore in 1867, and was about 58 at the time of the apparition.

In spite of his resolution never to rejoin the Company's services, it was still with the home administration of the Company where lay his greatest possibility of finding employment as he was too old to travel to India.

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.

In spite of his failures, Diocletian's reforms fundamentally changed the structure of Roman imperial government and helped stabilize the Empire economically and militarily, enabling the Empire to remain essentially intact for another hundred years despite having seemed near the brink of collapse in Diocletian's youth.

Some foreign analysts have pointed to widespread starvation, increased emigration through North Korea-China border, and new sources of information about the outside world for ordinary North Koreans as factors pointing to an imminent collapse of the regime, but North Korea has remained stable in spite of more than a decade of such predictions.

Flourishing times for Speyer continued after the collapse of the Danube border between 166 and 170 in spite of increasing incursions by Germanic tribes across the Limes.

In spite of occasional superior soldiering by Confederate troops and junior commanders, Sibley's sluggishness and vacillation in executing a plan with high risk led to an almost inevitable Confederate collapse.

The proximity to Prague helped to keep the local economy stable in spite of the heavy industrial decline after the collapse of the communist regime.

In spite of waging a successful campaign against the colonists, by the end of March, disease, starvation, battle loses, and the lack of gunpowder caused the Indian effort to collapse.

In spite of this revolutionary fervor however, PLP's most recent self-assessment of its political line is noticeably reflective, and even somewhat sober, stating that " he most significant error our Party made was to underestimate the significance of the old movement ’ s collapse.

This in spite of an NGO claiming to have adopted the Worli Village, where the fort is located. This Fort was on the verge of collapse and total disintegration until a few years ago. Finally, citizen awareness of preserving Mumbai's historical edifices and petitions in the media resulted in Mumbai's politicians deciding to repair all old monuments and forts in the city.

In spite of this, the business was awash in red ink and nearing collapse.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

These women continued to adhere to traditional practices such as Christian burials and naming their children after saints in spite of revolutionary decrees to the contrary.

In spite of these at-times intense persecutions, the Christian religion continued its spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin.

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

In a 1997 interview, FARC-EP Commander Alfonso Cano argued that some guerrilla units continued to do so for " political and economic reasons " in spite of the prohibition issued by the leadership.

In spite of his choice to pursue a secular career, More continued to observe certain ascetical practices for the rest of his life, such as wearing a hair shirt next to his skin and occasionally engaging in flagellation.

In spite of his schism from the Church, he continued to write against heresy, especially Gnosticism.

In spite of this, dissent continued to be suppressed, and President Jiang Zemin launched a brutal crackdown against the Falun Gong religious sect in 1999.

In spite of these arguments, most editions of the play have continued to use the name Imogen.

As Cooke writes, " In spite of continued opposition and criticism, and many well-meaning exhortations to caution from his friends, he looked neither to right nor left, but simply got down to work on the next symphony.

Instead established relationships continued through the embargo crisis, in spite of numerous bankruptcies.

In spite of Joshua ’ s initial victory in the Valley of Ajalon, the Amorites continued to live in the city of Ajalon ().

He founded an ascetic group that, in spite of persecution, continued to subsist in Hispania and Gaul until the later 6th century.

In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout September 18, while removing his battered army south of the Potomac River.

Ground sloths were largely unaffected and continued to thrive in spite of competition from the northern immigrants.

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.

In spite of his reputation among his fellow recruits as an exemplary Marine, Whitman continued to gamble during his spell at Camp Lejeune.

In spite of such challenging circumstances, the town continued to grow.

In spite of harassment by the opposition, both the Lake County Health Department and IEPA continued to supported the project.

In spite of suffering a second serious car accident in 1970, Sylvie Vartan continued extensive performing and recording and, in 1972, she starred in the film Malpertuis.

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.

In spite of Schmutzer's efforts, Cocke County continued to struggle with organized crime.

" Because of strong video sales, the studio continued to make these films in spite of negative critical reaction ; 2001's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True received a rare zero-percent rating from the review-aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.

In spite of the relative success of new towns in the London Metropolitan green belt, London continued to suffer from a chronic housing shortage, especially in the south-east.

In comparison, it remains a relatively strong Gaelic speaking area in spite of a continued decline.