In spite of its early meteoric rise, church membership has declined sharply over the past eight decades, according to the church's former treasurer, J. Edward Odegaard.

In spite of the heroin chic movement, model Claudia Schiffer earned a staggering $ 12 million, proving the industry was more versatile than previous decades. The mid 1990s also saw many Asian countries establishing modeling agencies.

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.

In spite of Lenin's opinion that the NEP should last several decades at least, until universal literacy was accomplished, in 1928, after only nine years of NEP, Lenin's successor, Stalin, eventually introduced full central planning ( although a variant of public planning had been the idea of the Left Opposition, which Stalin purged from the Party ), re-nationalized much of the economy, and from the late 1920s onwards introduced a policy of rapid industrialization.

The Chinese influence to the west of the Pamir Mountains certainly did not cease as the result of the battle ; Central Asian states under Muslim control, such as Samarkand, continued to request aid from the Tang against the Arabs in spite of Talas and hence in 754, all nine kingdoms of Western Turkestan again sent petitions to the Tang to attack the Arabs and the Tang continued to turn down such requests as it did for decades.

Byron and Pack write that " In spite of Kang ’ s decline, his influence on the security and intelligence system was visible for decades to come.

This was in spite of the fact that the Australian Electoral Commission had requested no such reform, there was no evidence of significant electoral fraud and that the Australian Electoral Commission had been dealing with hundreds of thousands of late enrolments without significant problems for decades.

In spite of its large size upon completion, Old City Hall proved to be inadequate for Toronto's growing municipal government within a couple of decades of completion.

In spite of decades of research in selecting highly productive and disease resistant rubber trees, many commercial rubber trees throughout the world are descended from the seeds Wickham took to Joseph Dalton Hooker in London.

He died in ignorance in some kind of home arrest imposed by the communist regime because cybernetics was declared a science of capitalist nature by the Romanian government of the mid ' 70s ( in spite of having embraced it in the previous two decades ).

In spite of changing technology, audiences and formats, the station has maintained a familiar presence on the air for eight decades.

In spite of Adad-nirari's vigor, Assyria entered a several decades long period of weakness following his death.

In spite of their many successes, in 1964 the researchers turned to other areas and the injector concept lay dormant for two decades.

One consequence of this is that many spellings come to reflect a word's morphophonemic structure rather than its purely phonemic structure ( for example, the English regular past tense morpheme is consistently spelled-ed in spite of its different pronunciations in various words ).

She is now living well again as her son, the new baronet, has agreed to financially support her ( in spite of her past neglect and indifference towards him ).

In spite of the severe punishment inflicted on those found in violation of this decree ( Livy claims there were more executions than imprisonment ), the Bacchanalia survived in Southern Italy long past the repression.

The remaining issues deal with Dream's funeral, Hob Gadling choosing to remain immortal in spite of Dream's passing, and two stories from the past.

All proceeds from the sales of the items went to the " We The People " group ; a group dedicated to changing the parole laws for convicted murders such as McFadden ( who was paroled in spite of a past marked by violence ) due to overcrowding.

After originally being a devoted supporter of the Prince of Wales, he turned against him after 1811 when he became Prince Regent and was seen to embrace the Tory government in spite of his past association with the Whigs.

In spite of being actively promoted by members from every side of the political spectrum, these narratives are often seen as being associated with mainly with the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco, which associated itself with the imperial past that was depicted in thoroughly positive terms .< ref > Molina Martínez, Miguel.

Some have criticized Ehrlich for not sufficiently acknowledging the mistakes he has made in the past, and maintaining a consistent argument in spite of new countervailing evidence.

But Benedict XVI reappointed him to the position on 21 April 2005, in spite of being past the customary retirement age.

This jurisdiction is not yet recognized by the contemporary leaders of Płock and Felicjanow in spite of one of its past leader's ( Archbishop Maas ) efforts to unify all sections into one church again by returning the ashes of church founder Kowalski to Płock – which brought back the church's roots to Płock – and by consecrating bishop Józef Maria Rafael Joseph Eugen Wojciechowski – which brought back the apostolic succession to Felicjanow.

Informed of the results of the raid, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany says, " In spite of this success, I am of the opinion that day of the airship is past for attacks on London.

The entry had only English lyrics ( with considerably more words than their past hits ), but was allowed to enter in spite of the language rule being reintroduced this year, because the song was chosen to represent Germany before the reintroduction was announced.

The unlikely pairing became popular in spite of Luke's past misdeed when the story shifted to focus on love and redemption.

In spite of its " Alternate Universe " billing, elements of the original Evangelion make appearances: plugsuits, mentions of Gendo Ikari's research in creating an artificial human being, Ritsuko's past feelings for Gendo and visual and verbal references to Angels and Evangelions.

Adam is determined to argue a stay for his grandfather, in spite of Sam's violent past, because Sam is one of the few living links to his family's history.

In spite of his past with the Royal and Merchant Navies, Albert cannot swim.

Since then Elne has become an agricultural town which, in spite of repeated destructions caused by its several invaders, remains a witness to its past glories, attracting some 70, 000 visitors annually.

In another letter to his friend, the Baroness von Schutzbar on 11 December 1938 Fritsch wrote: " It is very strange that so many people should regard the future with growing apprehension, in spite of the Führers indisputable successes in the past ... Soon after the War, I came to the conclusion that we have to be victorious in three battles, if Germany were again to be powerful:.

Upon his return to Spain, in spite of his leftist political past, he joined the Nationalist side, of which his brother Francisco was a main leader.

In spite of his immense fondness for her, and her for him, he often frustrated her with his secretive nature as his alien behaviour, the great importance of his objectives ( especially his focus on obliterating enemies from his past ) and his strong desire to both educate and protect her would lead him to keep even her in the dark and would even subordinate her feelings towards him in order to succeed in their battles.

The single, slightly edgier than she had been known for in the past ( such as her songs from Grease and her country-pop ballad " I Honestly Love You "), proved to be immensely popular both in America and in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that the song was censored and even banned by some radio stations ; due to its sexual and / or violent content, especially the line: " Let me hear your body talk ", in spite of Newton-John's status as the reigning queen of soft-rock music at the time, " Physical " peaked at only number twenty-nine on the AC chart ( its follow-up, the slightly softer-edged " Make a Move on Me ," found more acceptance at AC radio and went to number six AC as well as number five pop.

Sayaka is in debt due to an event in the past involving her father ; in spite of this she continues to try her best at keeping the school going.

The series was proclaimed as a copy of the BBC series The Office, although initially the producers claimed it was based on a character from a past ProSieben comedy, in spite of many elements resembling the The Office.

In the early period of the DPJ government Tanigaki frequently condemned the Democratic Party of Japan for advocating for a rise in the sales taxes by 5 percent, in spite of the enormous, problematic national deficit, and despite his own past calls to increase the tax.

Well, yes, perhaps in literature, since you could argue that you couldn't keep silent about your feelings against literature and so were involved in spite of yourself.

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

In spite of the name, such a univariate data set is not a set in the usual mathematical sense, since a given value may occur multiple times.

Dalhousie was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

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 this, Lauda's move is seen as one of the bravest examples in motor racing, especially since it lost the title for Ferrari of all teams.

Italy was ill-prepared for war, in spite of the fact that it had continuously been involved in conflict since 1935, first with Ethiopia in 1935 – 1936 and then in the Spanish Civil War on the side of Francisco Franco's Nationalists.

In spite of its name, there is no purely algebraic proof of the theorem, since any proof must use the completeness of the reals ( or some other equivalent formulation of completeness ), which is not an algebraic concept.

In spite of Oldsmobile's critical successes since the mid-1990s, a reported shortfall in sales and overall profitability prompted General Motors to announce in December 2000 their plans to phase out the Oldsmobile brand.

Li Hongzhi has lived in New York since 1998, and Falun Gong has a sizable global constituency ; inside China, some sources estimate that millions may continue to practice Falun Gong in spite of suppression.

When the novel opens, Edek Zepler is an old man of 76 who certainly enjoys good food, a man living alone with his dog in the old house in Melbourne, feeling rather alone — in spite of an active Jewish community in his neighbourhood — and without any life in him since his wife's death in 1986 (" The saddest thing did already happen to me.

In spite of legal text forbidding its reorganization under another name, its members have tried to use, ever since the outlawing, a plethora of local lists.

In spite of what was for many years a standing offer of $ 50, 000 for a live, healthy snake over long by the New York Zoological Society ( NYZS ), known since 1993 as the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ), no attempt to claim this reward was ever made.

In spite of varying interpretations made since the film originated, Buñuel made clear throughout his writings that, between Dalí and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was: " No idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted.

In spite of this, the song " One " quickly gained a permanent fixture in the band's live setlist since the release of the album.

Western was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

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.

Television New Zealand, although 100 % state-owned, has been run on an almost entirely commercial basis since the late 1980s, in spite of previous attempts to steer it towards a more public service-oriented role.

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?

Germany's entry into the Euro 2008 qualifying round was marked partially by the promotion of Joachim Löw to head coach, since Klinsmann retired in spite of a public outcry for him to continue managing the Mannschaft.

Although the Assumption ( Latin: assūmptiō, " taken up ") was only relatively recently defined as infallible dogma by the Catholic Church, and in spite of a statement by Saint Epiphanius of Salamis in 377 that no one knew whether Mary had died or not, apocryphal accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 4th century.

In spite of this the annual growth rate averaged five per cent, the highest achieved since independence.

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.

The film performed poorly at the box office — in spite of Time magazine's prediction that it would " make a killing at the cash booths " and its assertion that Kubrick " has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors ' poll "— but was critically acclaimed, landing on several critical Top-Ten lists for the year.

In spite of Bernese attempts to reclaim Vaud, it has remained a sovereign canton ever since.