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spite and hopes
As a result, Allied troops and civilians frequently listened to Lord Haw-Haw's broadcasts in spite of the sometimes infuriating content and frequent inaccuracies and exaggerations, in the hopes of learning clues about the fate of Allied troops and air crews.
As Griffenfeldt predicted, Sweden's stronger ally France was the party that dictated the peace with Denmark's ally Holland, and in spite of Danish victory at sea in the battles against Sweden in 1675 – 1679 during the Scanian War, Danish hopes for border changes on the Scandinavian Peninsula between the two countries were dashed.
His website indicates that he is still recovering from the traumatic brain injury that he received, and that his family hopes he will soon be able to " continue to work so that, in spite of his injury, he can enjoy a quality of life in keeping with his imagination, intelligence, and service to his Church and community.
In spite of this the French continued to entertain hopes of a future invasion for the remainder of the war, which drove the British to keep a tight blockade on the French coast.
The formation of the coalition and the outbreak of war for a while raised his hopes, in spite of his lively distrust of the competence of Austrian ministers ; but the hopes were speedily dashed by the Battle of Austerlitz and its results.
Sam Jones did not stay a lawyer for long and, in spite of his hopes that marriage would save him from himself, he continued to drink heavily and destroyed his career.

spite and many
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, many universities offer adequate and even distinguished courses in the subject.
Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.
In spite of the relatively short period of time that we have experienced among you, we have already seen many indications of your character and spirit.
We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.
Yet, in spite of this, intensive study of the taped interviews by teams of psychotherapists and linguists laid bare the surprising fact that, in the first five minutes of an initial interview, the patient often reveals as many as a dozen times just what's wrong with him ; ;
This has led many more to choose Acapulco, in spite of the fact that the flight is longer and more expensive than to Cancun for many travelers.
The opening track, "' Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum ', includes many references to parades in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where participants are masked, and " determined to go all the way " of the parade route, in spite of being intoxicated.
In spite of the large evolutionary distance between insects and mammals, many aspects of Drosophila neurogenetics have turned out to be relevant to humans.
Their areoles identify them as cacti, and in spite of their appearance they too have many adaptations for water conservation.
In spite of the PDP-6's limited commercial success, it introduced many features that clearly had commercial benefit.
However, in spite of many claims to the contrary, it is widely held that Cauchy recognized the importance of Galois ' work, and that he merely suggested combining the two papers into one in order to enter it in the competition for the Academy's Grand Prize in Mathematics.
In spite of this acculturation, many white settlers and land speculators simply desired the land.
The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as the father of existentialism, maintained that the individual solely has the responsibilities of giving one's own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom.
In spite of many measures taken by the government, convicts still were released without proper treatment.
In spite of the changes, the fifth album's first single, " Little L ", reached # 1 in many charts worldwide becoming their best dance hit.
In spite of this, it seems that “ many poets did not object to and some must have preferred baroque juxtapositions of unlike kennings and neutral or incongruous verbs in their verses ” ( Foote & Wilson ( 1970 ), p. 332 ).
In spite of this, the inventory has many gaps: Klingon has no velar plosives, and only one sibilant.
Murray responded to much criticism by claiming that it was religiously motivated, coming from Christians who did not want her theories to be true: in one case she stated that her theory had received " a hostile reception from many strictly Christian sects and reviewers, but it made its way in spite of opposition.
The Battles Nepalese troops, having crossed the Himalayas captured Chhochyang and Kuti in June 1788 and Sikarjong on 3 August 1788, in spite of many difficult logistic limitations.
Neil Kinnock's showing in the opinion polls dipped ; before Thatcher's resignation, Labour had been up to 10 points ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls ( an Ipsos MORI poll in April 1990 had actually shown Labour more than 20 points ahead of the Tories ), but many opinion polls were actually showing the Tories with more support than Labour, in spite of the deepening recession.
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 ).
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.

spite and on
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.
In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.
In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.
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 ".

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