However, in spite of their internal turmoil, Sook Jai took an early lead in the tribal challenges, winning 5 of the first 7 challenges.

In spite of the challenges he encountered soon after his accession and the critical situation at the very end of his life, Petar's Bulgaria appears to have been prosperous and increasingly well organized, with an administrative apparatus noted by foreign travelers and confirmed by the numerous finds of imperial seals.

This award is given a Mom who inspires others, in spite of career and family challenges.

Following the death of the lions, the book tells of the bridge ’ s completion in spite of additional challenges ( such as a fierce flood ) as well as many stories concerning local wildlife ( including other lions ), local tribes, the discovery of the maneaters ' cave, and various hunting expeditions.

As queen, Urraca rose to the challenges presented to her and her solutions were pragmatic ones, according to Reilly, and laid the foundation for the reign of her son Alfonso VII, who in spite of the opposition of Urraca's lover Pedro González de Lara succeeded to the throne of a kingdom whole and at peace at Urraca ’ s death in 1126.

In spite of these challenges and added demands on their time ( in order to carry out the repair work ), they still accomplished all mission goals-spacewalk, flyaround, and one-hundred percent of the planned U. S. science experiments.

In spite of all these challenges, many former residents of communal apartments look back fondly on the sense of family they had with their neighbors.

However, in spite of these challenges it eventually spread worldwide, with close to 300, 000 practitioners.

Glaeser and Gyourko ( 2008 ) observed that in spite of the mortgage meltdown and the ensuing drop in housing prices, Americans continue to face housing affordability challenges.

In spite of its unprecedented macroeconomic stability, which has reduced inflation and interest rates to record lows and has increased per capita income, enormous gaps remain between the urban and the rural population, the northern and southern states, and the rich and the poor.

In spite of early Roman Catholic Church prohibitions against charging interest on loans, there is some evidence that the Franciscans were permitted to begin the practice as an aid to the poor.

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

Despite the destruction wrought on the countryside, the city castle held out in spite of repeated attempts over twelve days to take it, and the Turks left the island unsuccessfully because of poor logistics and an epidemic that decimated their ranks.

During the 17th century, further extensive repairs were carried out, in spite of a poor financial situation following the Civil War.

Also, in spite of an increase in unemployment, the poor improved their share of the national income while that of the rich was slightly reduced.

In spite of Italy's poor showing, Prussia's success on the northern front obliged Austria to cede Venetia.

The team's erstwhile coach, Bob Simpson, said that Taylor's retention in the team in spite of his poor form was fostering resentment among the players and destabilising the team.

Among them are the Calgary Grey Cup Committee, whose volunteers have hosted pancake breakfasts on the day of the Canadian Football League championship game for over three decades, sometimes in spite of poor weather conditions for the annual November contest.

Tan immediately sent his children off to England in spite of his own mother's refusal to take care of them owing to poor health.

Their success in spite of low intelligence and poor skill with tools was due to the great advantage of their telepathic abilities ; they never suffered much selective pressure to improve what they had.

In spite of his considerable literary production, Carleton remained poor, but received a pension in 1848 of £ 200 a year granted by Lord John Russell in response to a memorial on Carleton's behalf signed by numbers of distinguished persons in Ireland.

In spite of the poor soil conditions and the setbacks of fire damage over the years, mature stands of Acacia confusa, Lophostemon confertus, Pinus massoniana, Pinus elliottii and Eucalyptus species now cover most of the area.

In spite of their mutual dislike, the Electress and Violante Beatrice attempted to improve Gian Gastone's poor public image together.

They suffered from underinvestment and poor reputations, in spite of educating around 70 % of the UK's school children.

So Joe is poor but happy will always necessarily imply " Surprisingly Joe is happy in spite of being poor ".

In spite of the spectacular defeat of the supposed main British thrust in the Battle of Carillon ( in which a banner was supposedly carried that inspired the modern flag of Quebec ), the French military position was poor.

Ask. com abandoned the search industry in 2010 in spite of its poor reception and consequently could not compete against more popular search engines such as Google and Bing.

They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.

In spite of failure in business, poor circumstances, and loneliness, he refused an invitation to the rabbinate of Berlin, and instead obtained a position as bookkeeper in Żółkiew, which he held from 1836 to 1838.

But Marland and Nixon left the series after a few years and in spite of ABC's bumping down Ryan's Hope to give Loving a choice timeslot, and cast additions of such popular All My Children stars as Debbi Morgan and Jean LeClerc, the ratings remained poor throughout the show's run.

In spite of the poor performance of the team, the stadium was filled with faithful supporters, drew an average audience of twenty thousand people.

In spite of his bouts of ill health, he left no will.

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.

This came about in spite of initial disapproval by contemporary medical opinion ( which worried about women's frail health ) and by savoir vivre guidebooks ( which deplored the public attention drawn to what was assumed to be the wife's sexual initiation ).

His experience in the Netherlands and the West Indies particularly fitted him for this new command, as was proved by his carrying his army in health, in spirits and with the requisite supplies, in spite of very great difficulties, to the destined scene of action.

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.

In response, Faisal cabled to the Iraqi Legation in London: " Although everything is normal now in Iraq, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety.

Their health was deteriorating and, in spite of his efforts, their morale and discipline were slipping.

In spite of declining health, Mantegna continued to be active.

In spite of this he was admitted to the Lords, where he was staunchly defended by Lord Thurlow, and his declining health soon made the issue irrelevant.

As a Lord Justice of Appeal, he was conspicuous for his learning, his industry and his courtesy to all who appeared before him ; and in spite of failing health he sat regularly until August 1893, when, on the retirement of Lord Hannen, he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and a life peer with the title Baron Bowen, of Colwood in the County of Sussex.

She underwent a mastectomy and further treatment, to continue performing through the 1980s in spite of pain and deteriorating health.

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

There, in spite of his health problems, he continued his missionary work, for which he is considered An Apostle and Missionary of the New Continent ( quote by Fr.

After 1761, young Madhavrao Peshwa tried his best to rebuild the empire in spite of his frail health and reinstated the Maratha authority over North India, 10 years after the battle of Panipat.

In spite of failing health Abercromby continued as speaker until 1839.

In spite of its known negative health effects, Sharad Pawar made a remark that Endosulfan is not yet proved dangerous.

In spite of the fact that he acted less than a year that presented problems of health, the theory of a possible poisoning circulated since the first moment ( the letter from Roger de Bossost to Cardinal Richelieu ) and modern investigations support this possibility.

Ever the optimist, Krøyer painted almost to the end, in spite of health obstacles.

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.

Activists often propose abandoning or restricting the use of these inputs in spite of the absence of credible health threats — and ignore the consequences of such policies for consumers and other stakeholders, in the United States and overseas ;

He was known as a brilliant student, notably in mathematics, in spite of his poor health.