In spite of the surgery on May's right eye, his newly regained vision is not fully recovered after forty years of blindness.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

In spite of doubts on the part of his uncle, Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus managed to raise another huge army and invaded Germany again the next year, in 16.

Four days later, pope and cardinals had to flee from Rome before the imperial prefect of the Eternal City, and at Terracina, in spite of all protests, Victor laid aside the papal insignia and once more retired to Monte Cassino, where he remained nearly a whole year.

In spite of the steady inflation during the 2nd century, there was no further rise until the time of Septimius Severus, who increased it to 500 denarii a year.

The higher regions of the Himalayas are snowbound throughout the year, in spite of their proximity to the tropics, and they form the sources of several large perennial rivers, most of which combine into two large river systems:

Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, who co-created Man-Thing for Marvel Comics a year and a half earlier, thought that this origin was too similar to that of their character, and Wein himself had written a Man-Thing story ( in fact, the second ) that was published with a June 1972 cover date, but he refused to change the origin in spite of some cajoling by Conway, who was his roommate at the time.

In spite of having the highest property tax rates in Clark County, city leaders have been unable to pass a balanced budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year.

In spite of land-use planning and export of treated sewage effluent from the basin, the lake is becoming increasingly eutrophic ( having an excessive richness of nutrients ), with primary productivity increasing by more than 5 % annually, and clarity decreasing at an average rate of 0. 25 meters per year.

In 1836, he joined James G. Birney in the editorial control of the Philanthropist ; in the following year he succeeded Birney as editor, and conducted the paper until 1847 in spite of threats and acts of violence – the printing office of the Philanthropist was wrecked three times by mobs.

In the following year he showed the strength of his judgment and character by supporting, in spite of consequent unpopularity in Ireland, a measure for increasing the powers of the executive to deal with Irish disorder.

A year later, he finally took up residence at Bourges, where he remained till his death in 1590, in spite of a handsome offer made him by pope Gregory XIII in 1584 to attract him to Bologna.

The following year Carteret was forced out of the ministry and Pelham was regarded as the leading figure, but rank and influence made his brother very powerful in the Cabinet, and, in spite of a genuine attachment, there were occasional disputes between them, which led to difficulties.

" Hollywood movies produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age ( in spite of many cheaply made or indistinguished films also being produced, something one expects with any year in commercial cinema ), and during 1939 there were the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which have been honored as all-time classic films.

In spite of these limitations, in less than a year, the Sound Blaster became the top-selling expansion card for the PC.

In addition, an epoch optionally prefixed by " J " and designated as a year with decimals ( 2000 + x ), where x is positive or negative and quoted to 1 or 2 decimal places, has come to mean a date that is an interval of x Julian years of 365. 25 days away from the epoch J2000 = JD 2451545. 0 ( TT ), still corresponding ( in spite of the use of the prefix " J " or word " Julian ") to the Gregorian calendar date of 2000 Jan 1 at 12h TT ( about 64 seconds before noon UTC on the same calendar day ).

For a number of reasons, Bennett felt that Gurdjieff had expected the arrival of a teaching from Indonesia, and in spite of deep reservations, Bennett was ' opened ' by Husein Rofe in November of that year.

Gramophone's talking machine manufacturer, Eldridge R. Johnson, being left with a large factory and thousands of talking machines with no records to play on them, filed suit that year to be permitted to make records himself, and won, in spite of the negative verdict against Berliner.

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 an attempt to re-enter racing at the International Voiturette Cup of 1921 the directors called in the liquidators later in the year.

Almost a year later, Rosie announced that she had falsely accused the two out of jealousy and spite.

Later that same year, he continued to play in spite of a broken foot.

Zaken shows that some Jewish individuals paid 50 gold liras every year during World War I. Apparently-according to Dr. Zaken-" in spite of the forceful conscription campaigns, some of the Jews were able to buy their exemption from conscription duty.

in spite of the Italian name, he sounds French.

" Some have argued that, in spite of Italian Fascism's attempt at totalitarianism, it became an authoritarian cult of personality around Mussolini.

In spite of the fact that the Italian navy sealed the sultanate's main coastal entrance, they could not succeed in stopping them from receiving arms and ammunition through it.

However, in spite of its initial short term success and critical reaction, as represented by a review in La Gazzetta privilegiata which stated that " A new masterwork has been added to Italian music ..... Belisario not only pleased and delighted, but also conquered, enflamed and ravished the full auditorium ", in the long run, had " Donizetti poured music of the calibre of his Lucia di Lammermoor into the score of Belisario the shortcomings of its wayward plot and dramatic structure would matter less ".

In spite of the economic hardship of the immigrants, civil and social life flourished in the Italian American neighborhoods of the large northeastern cities.

In spite of his intransigent attitude toward the Italian Communist Party, Pertini was suspicious of many policies enforced by the PSI.

This official line is the same as for most other minority languages in Italy, which are officially considered Italian dialects in spite of the fact that they belong to different sub-groups of the Romance language family, and in their historical development are in no way derivative of Italian

In spite of the failure of his ecclesiastical scheme, he remains one of the most noteworthy figures of the Italian Risorgimento.

By means of the grist tax ( which he had proposed in 1865, but which the Menabrea cabinet had passed in 1868 ), and by other fiscal expedients necessitated by the almost desperate condition of the national exchequer, he succeeded, before his fall from power in 1873, in placing Italian finance upon a sound footing, in spite of fierce attacks and persistent misrepresentation.

alt = refer to caption In spite of early successes against invading Italian forces, by April 1941 the country was at risk of invasion from the Germans ; in a later poem Manning recalled the " horror and terror of defeat " of a people she had grown to love.

Sozzini now fixed himself at Basel, gave himself to close study of the Bible, began translating the Psalms into Italian verse, and, in spite of increasing deafness, became a centre of theological debates.

In spite of the Duke of Aosta's surrender at Amba Alagi on 18 May 1941, some Italian forces continued to hold out.

This in spite of conclusions in September 2006 by Italian Justice, after a five years investigation, that there was " an absolute lack of grounds of evidence of charge which may be used in trial " and that the suspicion motivating the inquiries had proved unfounded.

In spite of his songs ' popularity, Gorni Kramer and his orchestra were still ignored by the Italian state radio EIAR, who boycotted them because they played jazz.

The Ministry responsible is at present appearing to issue conflicting messages on the one hand declaring that Apap's fountain has great value as a public art work which will be retained in spite of its repositioning very close to its original location and on the other hand it wants to place it in a garden connected to the new park of pine trees where its green backdrop the ministry insists, will complement the watery fantasy of these " telamonic sea creatures, part man part fish .” The artistic community fear that the Italian pines that were imported at great cost instead of a backdrop will in reality shield the fountain from view, in effect hiding it. The fountain in its original location, is rightly located as a landmark and work of art.

In spite of these initial passions, it was this very experience that led to Montanelli's biggest change of mind with regards to Italian fascism.

However, in spite of his inferiority in troop numbers, Wavell was able to not only defend against the Italian attacks but by May 1941, he was able to defeat the Italians and occupy their east African colonies of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.

In recognition of his services in the Italian campaign during the revolutionary year of 1848, Franz Joseph permitted the meritorious Field Marshal Radetzky to live in these apartments in spite of the fact that he was not a member of the court.

During the occupation of Cape Verde Islands by Castile ( a main base of modern Spain ) during the Portuguese-Castilian war of 1475-1479, the Italian Antonio de Noli remained governor in spite of his titles had been given to him by the Portuguese.

More accurate accounts of Italian performance in World War II show that, in spite of having to rely in many cases on outdated weapons Italian troops frequently fought with great valor and distinction, especially well trained and equipped units such as the Bersaglieri and Alpini.

When World War I broke out, in spite of his Triplicist policy he openly expressed himself in favour of Italian neutrality, and on Italy's entry into the war he was careful not to compromise himself with Giolitti's attitude.