In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.

Its long neck gives it a large amount of dead space, in spite of its narrow windpipe.

In spite of their violence, the amount of material ejected in novae is usually only about of a solar mass, quite small relative to the mass of the white dwarf.

The content of the decision ( e. g., the stock, amount, time and means ) is the product of an act of prudence, while the actual carrying out of the decision may involve other virtues like fortitude ( doing it in spite of fear of failure ) and justice ( doing his job well out of justice to his company and his family ).

In spite of these procurement actions, the channel is still considered to be inferior in the amount of its viewers relatively to the other channels.

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.

In spite of his weak health, an almost incredible amount of work was crowded into those years.

In spite of being extremely successful, Diana Vreeland made a small amount of money from the Hearst Corporation, which owned Harper's Bazaar.

Sears also points out the supposed irony: " data analysis ... shows that in spite of the fact that the American public has dramatically cut back on the amount of fat consumed, the country has experienced an epidemic rise in obesity.

In spite of the vast amount of research on chemical modification of wood, and, more specifically, on the acetylation of wood, commercialization did not come easily.

In spite of the many calls upon his time he produced a considerable amount of literary work, usually on classical or Scottish subjects, including some poems and songs of no mean order.

In any case, judges need to have a vast amount of knowledge and experience and retain objectivity in spite of any personal preference.

In spite of this, Clive is something of a womaniser, and has enjoyed a moderate amount of success.

In spite of his own inexperience in military affairs and this formidable opposition, Stanhope achieved a fair amount, although it was his Liberal successor, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who managed to push Cambridge into retirement.

However, in spite of President Gowen's glowing predictions at year-end 1883, " carcely any of the benefits of plan of reorganization had been secured ; fixed charges had not been reduced, because it had been impossible to get creditors to take new securities in exchange for the old, and equally impossible to sell any considerable amount of the new securities for cash.

His defence argued that in spite of the amount of evidence, there was no proof Ivan Milat was guilty and attempted to shift the blame to other members of his family, particularly Richard.

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?

In spite of these problems, FullWrite developed a faithful following and some amount of commercial success.

In spite of being owned by a religious organization, KDTU offered the second least amount of religious programming of all the commercial stations in the market.

However, in 2006 the Victorian Auditor General noted that in spite of $ 750 million spent, " We found that the delivery of more frequent fast rail services in the Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo corridors by the agreed dates was not achieved.

When spite tokens are spent in this manner they are given to the player they're spent against.

In spite of this, Pierre showed a strong will to learn, and spent much time in the school library with a pile of books, exploring a variety of subjects in his free time outside of class.

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 drain of the war in Asia and the large sums spent by Theophilos on building, commerce, industry, the finances of the Empire were in a most flourishing condition, the credit of which was in great measure due to the highly efficient administration of the department.

Grant spent a night there in spite of the fact that Bowen ( a teetotaler ) forbade drinking and smoking in his home ( Grant was made to smoke his cigars out on the porch, and he drank covertly ).

In 1810 he became professor extraordinarius in theology, and in 1811 ordinarius, at the University of Halle, where, in spite of many offers of high preferment elsewhere, he spent the rest of his life.

Medics spent 45 minutes attempting to restart his heart, and although he was still alive upon arrival at the stadium's medical centre he died shortly afterwards, in spite of the efforts to save his life.

Refusing to train publicly at the Chicago Athletic Club in spite of arrangements having been made for him to do so, he was barred from the club and spent his time either in his hotel room or taking long morning and evening walks along Lake Michigan.

In spite of the success of these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth.

She later claimed that she would not have spent the time that she did with Kinsky were it not for the unfounded rumours of an affair being spread by the society gossips, and her desire to spend time with him was simply for spite.

Cuzzoni spent the winter of 1728-29 in Vienna at the invitation of Count Kinsky ( Imperial Ambasasador to London ), but, in spite of her great success there was not engaged by the opera because she demanded too high a salary.

They both proceeded to Claregalway and burnt the town in spite of Thomond and Macwilliam, spent a night encamped there and were refused battle then.

In spite of two imaginative and valiant attempts to escape, he was recaptured and spent the remainder of the war in captivity.

As a result, little to no resources were spent on defences in spite of its strategic importance on the sea route from Europe to North Africa: the island's air defences comprised an estimated 6 obsolete Gloster Gladiator biplanes.

After some years spent in retirement, he was appointed in 1704 to command the allied forces in Portugal, a post which he sustained with honour and success until the Battle of Almanza in 1707, in which Galway, in spite of care and skill on his own part, was decisively defeated by the Duke of Berwick.

In spite of my weariness, I spent a troubled night.

In spite of having spent most of the day being tortured nearly to death, Angel leaps out of the van, bursting into flame from the sunlight, and tackles Marcus off the pier, falling with him to the water below.

In spite of all this progress, the General Assembly was unable to resolve the Addicks issue until 1903, with the nationally embarrassing result that Delaware spent two years with no representation at all in the U. S. Senate.

In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.

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.

In spite of powerful opposition the Draft Act finally passed Congress on May 17, 1917.

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 ''.

But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).

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.

In spite of the hundred things he had on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her waist.

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.

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.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

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 ).

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

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

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.

In his works he declared that " the principle ' what is not prohibited is allowed ' should be understood literally ", defying the unwritten ideological rules imposed by the Communist ruling elite on the society in spite of the seemingly democratic USSR Constitution.

To spite the city and an unsympathetic neighbor, Froling built a house wide, long and high on the tiny strip of land left to him.

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.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".