In spite of the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per cent, or 800,000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public.

This proved unpopular with soldiers, in spite of being proven to defend against a three-ounce ( 100 g ) shrapnel round fired at a distance of one hundred yards ( 90 m ).

In spite of his failures, Diocletian's reforms fundamentally changed the structure of Roman imperial government and helped stabilize the Empire economically and militarily, enabling the Empire to remain essentially intact for another hundred years despite having seemed near the brink of collapse in Diocletian's youth.

In spite of the strength of their flight, trogons do not fly often or for great distances, generally flying no more than a few hundred metres at a time.

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.

A local newspaper, The Cle Elum Echo reported, " The city of Roslyn is situated on land directly over the tunnel of Mine No. 4, and the shock caused by the explosion was not unlike an earthquake, shaking buildings in all parts of the city, while the burning, oil soaked timbers, vomited out of the shaft, were scattered in all directions, falling upon shingled roofs and causing over twenty roof fires, which were controlled by bucket brigades, all the city water and the fire department being concentrated upon the shaft and abutting frame structures, in spite of this all frame structures within two hundred feet of the shaft and tipple No. 4 were entirely destroyed.

When, therefore, the brothers, as well as delegates of the people's party, which, weary of Hasmonean quarrels, desired the extinction of the dynasty, presented themselves before Pompey, he delayed the decision, in spite of Aristobulus ' gift of a golden vine valued at five hundred talents.

In spite of this, rowing within Cambridge remains popular and the Bumps, the main inter-college event, see well over a thousand students competing, typically around a hundred from Trinity.

It seems that one hundred and fifty people, many of them drunk, forced their way onto a barge, in spite of the captain warning them that the boat would capsize if they did not leave.

In spite of some continuing resistance to the term folkloristics, it is the preferred term of the field and has even been used by folklorists and academic institutions for more than one hundred years.

In spite of using highly efficient CCFLs, most sets use several hundred watts of power, more than would be required to light an entire house with the same technology.

Arabian critics, however, say that in spite of his learning he lacked a true insight into the genius of the Arabic language, and that he made more than thirty — some say three hundred — mistakes of pronunciation in reciting the Qur ' an.

Yet, in spite of the previous disasters, by Abbot Gasquet's computation ninety-one houses belonging to the canons regular wee suppressed or surrendered at the time of the Reformation between 1538 and 1540, with one thousand and eighty-three inmates — namely, Austin Canons, fifty-nine houses and seven hundred and seventy-three canons ; Premonstratensians, nineteen houses and one hundred and fifty-one religious.

When the Peel Commission made its1937 recommendations about partition and population transfer for Palestine, Magnes sounded the alarm: With the permission of the Arabs we will be able to receive hundreds of thousands of persecuted Jews in Arab lands [...] Without the permission of the Arabs even the four hundred thousand that now are in Palestine will remain in danger, in spite of the temporary protection of British bayonets.

* Residual functional capacity, a term used in the adjudication of claims for Social Security disability benefits to denote a claimant's maximum capacity to do things in spite of his or her impairments

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft developer who works on the Windows API, has said: " I could probably write for months solely about bad things apps do and what we had to do to get them to work again ( often in spite of themselves ).

In spite of its basis in Latin, the use of lorem ipsum is often referred to as greeking, from the phrase " it's all Greek to me ", which indicates that something is not meant to be readable text ( although greeking can also mean somewhat different things ; see the article for details ).

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.

" As such, he was arguing in direct opposition to religious thinkers for whom " blind faith " ( i. e. belief in things in spite of the lack of evidence for them ) was a virtue.

In spite of a number of minor political scandals-he, among other things, referred to George W. Bush as " that damn Texan old man " (" den där jävla texasgubben ") and abruptly murmured ( with a microphone attached to his jacket ) " now we better see an end to these gay issues " ( nu får det väl vara slut på de här bögfrågorna ) during a SIDA conference-he was able to maintain the trust of Prime Minister Göran Persson and keep his place in the Cabinet.

In spite of this, the women of Nantucket still lacked the right to own property or to vote, among other things.

… When Shun became Yaou's minister, he received the nobles from the four quarters of the empire, and banished these four wicked ones, Chaos, Monster, Block, and Glutton, casting them out into the four distant regions, to meet the spite of the sprites and evil things.

:" Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Sir John Cam Hobhouse wrote his thoughts down in his diary: " In spite of the allusions to the creative will of God the cosmogony is atheistic — at least the introduction of an author of all things seems very like a formality for the sake of saving appearances — it is not a necessary part of the scheme ".

Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post called it a " nasty book, written in spectacularly execrable prose, but the view of Presley that it expressed dovetailed in many instances with my own, and in spite of itself I found things in it to admire.

Thus, other things being equal, a player exhibiting spite will prefer an allocation in which other players receive less than more ( if more of the good is desirable ).

Those O'Dwyers had that Irish clannishness that made them stick together in spite of politics and everything.

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.

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 ).

In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">

In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

In 1184, in spite of his great age, he still had sufficient energy to relieve his son Dom Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors.

In spite of several not insignificant reverses at the hands of Bulgarians, Serbians, and Ottomans, the Emperor had provided the Empire with active leadership, had cooperated with able administrators, and had come closer than any of his predecessors in re-establishing Byzantine control over the Greek peninsula.

Deirdre was freed after three weeks, with Granada stating that they had always intended for her to be released, in spite of the media interest.

In his rookie season, Earnhardt won one race at Bristol, captured four poles, had 11 Top 5 finishes, 17 Top 10 finishes, and finished 7th in the points standings, in spite of missing four races because of a broken collarbone, winning Rookie of the Year honors.

In spite of the PDP-6's limited commercial success, it introduced many features that clearly had commercial benefit.

The disc was released in the U. S. via City Hall Records on December 6, and within two weeks had climbed to # 12 on Amazon's best-seller list in spite of being priced over 25 % higher than most CDs in order to raise funds for the Doris Day Animal League.

If in spite of all his advice someone persisted in making idols, he would have them punished by the Patingatis ( Parava headsman ) by exile .... One day when he heard that idols had been worshipped in the house of a Christian, he ordered the hut to be burnt down as a warning to others.

Also, in spite of ideological differences, Fascist Italy was the first western country to recognize the Soviet Union, in 1933 Fascist Italy had signed a friendship and nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union, and in the late 1930s both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany supported rapproachment with the Soviet Union.

In spite of the early proof that Agricola had given of the tolerance of his own religious attitude, he was not suffered to end his days in peace.

By now Glasnevin was an area for families of distinction-in spite of a comment attributed to the Protestant Archbishop King of Dublin that " when any couple had a mind to be wicked, they would retire to Glasnevin ".

Even Helen mourns Hector, for he had always been kind to her and protected her from spite.

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.

While hospitalized he learned that, in spite of his strength and lifelong daily regimen of swimming and exercise, he had a serious heart condition.

The other 17 letters had mostly always the same sound value, with very few exceptions, as for instance the word, which was pronounced in spite of the spelling.

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.

Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light burned oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first.