As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

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.

Oxford received his first vote for membership in the Order of the Garter in 1569, but never attained the honor in spite of his high rank and office.

On September 8, 2007, five members of the Makah tribe shot a gray whale using high powered rifles in spite of the decision.

In spite of the loving support of the series by its fans, the program had never been a favorite of television critics or members of the more high brow society.

In spite of his tendency towards high art, he was already known and appreciated as a humorist, and his early companionship with Charles Keene fostered and developed his talent for scholarly caricature.

In spite of the casual occasions that generated these recordings, their quality is almost always quite high, and they document the evolution of Davis ' style and sound.

However, independent investigations showed that the inmates ' lawyers were able to smuggle in weapons and equipment in spite of the high security.

In both schemes, account has been taken of the fact that — in spite of the many difficulties in establishing the dates of the historical events involved — many scholars attribute a high degree of probability to Friday April 7, 30, as the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, which would make April 9 the date of the Resurrection.

They're also used for resonant transformers such as Tesla coils where they can achieve reasonably low loss in spite of the high leakage inductance.

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.

The intensive building activity directed by planning policy resulted in the over-expansion of office space, " with a high level of vacancies in spite of the move of most administrations and government agencies from Bonn "

Sturges and Paramount producer Albert Lewin had some written disagreement in 1939 about the development of the script, with Lewin writing to Sturges, " the first two-thirds of the script, in spite of the high quality of your jokes, will require an almost one hundred percent rewrite.

In spite of the intense atmosphere, Franklin and Gosling discovered that there were two forms of DNA: at high humidity ( when wet ), the DNA fibre became long and thin ; when it was dried it became short and fat.

Her most influential genres were jazz and, out of spite toward her strict high school, rock ' n ' roll.

In spite of this success, however, he chose to return to his hometown of Camuy and teach chemistry and biology at the local high school, where he taught for the next 23 years.

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.

The hall is high, and remarkable chiefly for its size and for its stone carvings by Gibbons, yet in spite of its immense size it is merely a vast ante-room to the saloon.

In spite of its high temperature, pressures keep it plastic, and it has a relatively low density.

The Kingdom of Bohemia was an elective monarchy, and, in spite of the high title of a kingdom, was a part of the Holy Roman Empire.

In spite of his arrogant and contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high, judging him so distinguished by his learning and talents that, according to Jacques August de Thou, none of the ancients could be placed above him, and the age in which he lived could not show his equal.

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.

In spite of her high IQ, she was advised to play dumb ( like some of her film characters ) and did so.

In spite of this designation, Soap ranked # 13 for the 1977-78 season and went on to garner positive critical reviews and high ratings over the rest of its four-year run.

In spite of Hesiod's complaints about poverty, life on his father's farm could not have been too uncomfortable if Works and Days is anything to judge by, since he describes the routines of prosperous yeomanry rather than peasants.

In spite of poor health and the most desperate poverty, he made rapid progress.

In spite of these gains, Mozambique remains dependent upon foreign assistance for much of its annual budget, and a large majority of the population remains below the poverty line.

In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity, in spite of being in a time of abundance thanks to technology, while promoting privilege.

In dire poverty he fled, in 1779, to Halle, where in spite of the opposition of the senate and the theologians, he obtained through the interest of the Prussian minister, Abraham von Zedlitz, permission to lecture on subjects other than theology.

This sentence implies poverty and happiness are not compatible but in spite of this Joe is still happy.

The thought as enounced in the first stanza is the supremacy of ideal art over Nature, because of its unchanging expression of perfect ; and this is true and beautiful ; but its amplification in the poem is unprogressive, monotonous, and scattered ... which gives an effect of poverty in spite of the beauty.

In spite of his prowess, Outram's wife and family were for a while reduced to near poverty after his death until his liabilities could be settled through the courts.

In spite of his illustrious birth, good education and obvious ability, he lived most of his life in dire poverty.

Barefoot children begged for bread " adding " But it wasn't only the poverty, though that was bad enough, it was the recrimination, the malice, the spite, the ill-will and the hatred.

In spite of his poverty he managed to get to Rome in 1636 ; there he studied the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio among his eclectic selection of models, until he was forced to flee in 1638, to escape denunciation by the Inquisition for his Protestant faith.

Cleon carried a bill proposing fierce retribution against a rebellious Athenian ally Mytilene, including the execution of all its adult males and the enslavement of all its women and children ; the bill was repealed the next day in spite of his opposition.

Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker theorized that, rather than viewing Einstein's ( and other famously gifted late-talking individuals ) adult accomplishments as existing distinct from, or in spite of, his early language deficits, and rather than viewing Einstein's lingual delay itself as a " disorder ", it may be that Einstein's genius and his delay in speaking were developmentally intrinsic to one another.

The Baptist chapel at Shortwood was rebuilt in 1837 and, in spite of the emigration of over 80 members to Adelaide between 1838 and 1840, the adult congregation was at least 1, 000 in 1851.

In spite of its subject matter, the film was a surprise box office success, attracting a large adult audience of both sexes.

However, the adult ’ s and the child ’ s concepts will undoubtedly be different in spite of this.

In spite of these advances, primidone was still considered to be a " sheet-anchor " anticonvulsant in the United Kingdom as late as 1969, along with phenobarbital and phenytoin, for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy in spite of its side effects and one of two drugs ( the other being sultiame ) that were tried in adult patients if a combination of phenytoin and phenobarbital failed to control seizures.