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The goal of this policy is to create a market in which Canadian networks can realize revenue through advertising sales in spite of their inability to match the rates that the much larger American networks can afford to pay for syndicated programming.
Because there seems to be no acceptable alternative available, political support for the much troubled TBS-system remains, in spite of the controversy.
Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.
In spite of the differences, these twin strands have much common ground, such as that salvation is entirely a work of God alone with no work by which it can be earned ( monergism ), and that one cannot either turn to God nor believe unless God has first drawn a person and implanted the desire in their heart ( the Wesleyan doctrine of prevenient grace ).
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.
In spite of this, Pierre showed a strong will to learn, and spent much time in the school library with a pile of books, exploring a variety of subjects in his free time outside of class.
However, in spite of this apparently very great difference in form, recent mycological research, both at microscopic and molecular level has shown that sometimes species of open mushrooms are much more closely related to particular species of gasteroid fungi than they are to each other.
In spite of these gains, Mozambique remains dependent upon foreign assistance for much of its annual budget, and a large majority of the population remains below the poverty line.
But she was also paid less than many of the supporting " farceurs " billed beneath her, in spite of her much more central role in the films ' great financial success.
In spite of some reverses against the Latin Empire in 1240, John III was able to take advantage of Ivan Asen II's death in 1241 to impose his own suzerainty over Thessalonica ( in 1242 ), and later to annex this city, as well as much of Bulgarian Thrace in 1246.
In spite of his disappointment, he gained much experience as the bandmaster ( capobanda ) in Piacenza and Cremona, arranging and composing over 200 works for wind band.
In spite of this prominent place in the mythology, the meat of the Xoloitzcuintle was very much part of the diet of some of the ancient peoples of the region.
All the refounded houses were in properties that had remained in Crown possession ; but, in spite of much prompting, none of Mary's lay supporters would co-operate in returning their holdings of monastic lands to religious use ; while the lay lords in Parliament proved unremittingly hostile, as a revival of the " mitred " abbeys would have returned the House of Lords to having an ecclesiastical majority.
The great fire of 1524 destroyed much of the medieval city, in spite of the city's numerous canals.
Also in German, where marmalade is much less popular than jam anyway, Marmelade is the traditional designation for any kind of jam and marmalade ( especially smooth jam without visible pieces of fruit ) regardless of fruit base, and remains so in everyday language, in spite of EU regulation which, in official commercial usage, limits the term Marmelade to citrus-based preserves to minimise international confusion.
Like much of Dublin of that time, property speculators and developers were permitted to construct on the thoroughfare what were widely accepted to be inappropriately designed buildings, often entailing the demolition of historic properties, in spite of its Conservation Area status.
A journey from London to Worcester takes much longer today than before rationalisation, in spite of faster rolling stock.
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.
For example, Henry's " I know not what to say, my title's weak " ( 1. 1. 135 ), " All will revolt from me, and turn to him " ( 1. 1. 152 ), " And I with grief and sorrow to the court " ( 1. 1. 211 ), and " Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke ,/ Whose haughty spirit, wing'd with desire ,/ Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle / Tire on the flesh of me and my son " ( 1. 1. 267 – 270 ); Exeter's " And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all " ( 1. 1. 274 ); the entirety of York's soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 4 ; Warwick's pause to get his breath during the Battle of Barnet ( 2. 3. 1 – 5 ); all of Act 2, Scene 5 ( including dialogue from Henry, the father and the son ) up to the entry of Prince Edward at line 125 ; all of Henry's monologue in Act 3, Scene 1, prior to his arrest ( ll. 13 – 54 ); Richard's entire soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2 ( ll. 124 – 195 ); Margaret's " Ay, now begins a second storm to rise ,/ For this is he that moves both wind and tide " ( 3. 3. 47 – 48 ); Warwick's soliloquy at the end of the Act 3, Scene 3 ( ll. 257 – 268 ); Richard's " I hear, yet say not much, but think the more " ( 4. 1. 85 ) and " Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter :/ I stay not for love of Edward but the crown " ( 141. 124 – 125 ); Warwick's " O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come " ( 5. 1. 18 ); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry ( ll. 61 – 93 ) and Richard's " To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master / And cried ' All hail ', whenas he meant all harm " ( 5. 7. 33 – 34 ).
The first number is much larger than the second, due to the larger height of the power tower, and in spite of the small numbers 1. 1.
This campaign was as much a matter of personal spite as of racism – Wagner had learnt a great deal from Meyerbeer and indeed Wagner's early opera Rienzi ( 1842 ) was facetiously called by Hans von Bülow ' Meyerbeer's best opera '.
Right from the beginning of legalised CB radio, there had been much abuse of the system, with frequent complaints that CB radio was not policed properly in spite of the huge licence revenues, which at one time were second only to broadcast receiving licences.
In spite of questions being asked in Parliament, Sir Ivan's report was not published until much later.
In spite of the various lyrical re-writes by Stevens and Kalb, the overall point of the song that the locals expected and demanded too much from their government, is still clear.
During the eventful months which followed, when Strafford was striving in vain to force England, in spite of its visible reluctance, to support the king in his Scottish war, rumour has much to tell of Hampden's activity in rousing opposition.

spite and greater
On net balance, in spite of Controller Gerosa's opposition to the new Charter as an invasion of his office, the Controller will have the opportunity for greater usefulness to good government than he has now.
We speculate that compulsives in the unstructured schools are under greater strain because of the lack of systemization in their school setting, but that their need to organize ( for comfort ) is so intense that they struggle to induce the phonic rules and achieve in spite of the lack of direction from the environment.
In spite of the hopes of many on the left, nationalisation failed to provide workers with a greater say in the running of the industries in which they worked.
:" The King of England was struck with great astonishment, and wondered what alliance could mean, and, taking precautions for the future, frequently sent messengers into France for the purpose of recalling his son Richard ; who, pretending that he was peaceably inclined and ready to come to his father, made his way to Chinon, and, in spite of the person who had the custody thereof, carried off the greater part of his father's treasures, and fortified his castles in Poitou with the same, refusing to go to his father.
In spite of Waugh's greater experience, Taylor was granted the captaincy, while Healy was made vice-captain.
In this way, the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, in spite of its smaller size, classifies as indulgenced an immensely greater number of prayers than were treated as such in the Raccolta.
Howard related to Myers a conversation he had with Lincoln in 1863 in which the president expressed a desire to do something to help the people of East Tennessee, a majority of whom remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War in spite of the greater state's secession, and, remembering Kehr's suggestion, agreed to help Myers establish a university in Lincoln's honor.
Though Wright clearly does not posit an answer to the question of struggles among economic classes — whether they be because of or in spite of natural selection — some argue it is relevant to Wright's treatment of evolution as resulting in greater and greater moral progress, and thus strangely ignored, given that Wright is the author of another book examining human morality ( The Moral Animal ).
Temperatures in the crust increase about 15 ° C per kilometer, making it impossible for humans to exist at depths greater than several kilometers, even if it was somehow possible to keep shafts open in spite of the tremendous pressure.
Soon thereafter, the operation placed a greater emphasis on New York City news than there had been before, in spite of WRNN's invisible profile within the Five Boroughs.
For 2012, in spite of starting in category 15 on the LPGA tour, by mid-year she had successfully competed in five LPGA events, allowing her to benefit from the " reshuffle " and a greater ability to enter tournaments for the balance of the year.
In W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, the narrator uses the gospel of Matthew to introduce his own ending in which Jesus accepts death on the cross " for greater love hath no man " while the devil laughs in glee, knowing full well that man will reject this redemption and commit evil in spite of, if not because of this great sacrifice.

spite and technological
In spite of its technological inferiority, the black-and-green Game Boy easily staved off competitors, including color-display systems made by Atari and Sega of the above-mentioned manufacturers.
In spite of this none of these people could have been described as Ludites as they did not oppose technological progress, nor did they resort to violence or vandalism.

spite and economic
When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment .... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans.
The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of the US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia Islamist groups in Iraq ( SCIRI ) and Lebanon ( Hezbollah ), ( two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations ).
In spite of stifling red tape, the economic atmosphere in Germany in the 1930s had powerfully fertilized the growth of this and other auto companies.
In a 1997 interview, FARC-EP Commander Alfonso Cano argued that some guerrilla units continued to do so for " political and economic reasons " in spite of the prohibition issued by the leadership.
In spite of clear progress on other fronts with Mauritania ( border security, resource management, economic integration, etc.
Scarcely had the provisional government been installed when it began devoting its entire attention to an anti-religious policy, in spite of a disastrous economic situation.
Skeptics noted that Hu Jintao made a statement praising the governments of Cuba and North Korea ( in spite of their economic " flaws ") shortly after announcing Hu Yaobang's public commemoration, implying that it would be unlikely that the party would pursue a dramatic programme of political reform in the near future.
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity, in spite of being in a time of abundance thanks to technology, while promoting privilege.
He added, though, that he believed Britain's economic dominance grew in spite of, not because of, the protectionist system.
In spite of the recent economic downturn, Channahon's economy remains vibrant and strong.
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 the economic argument of exchange rate regimes ( one of the most divisive issues among economists ), the Journal has a tendency to support fixed exchange rates over floating exchange rates in spite of its support for the free market in other respects.
Available sources however document that the responsible state commission clearly advocated the continuation of Wies as a pilgrimage site, even in spite of economic objections from the abbot of Steingaden.
In spite of economic turmoil, NFL continued to grow during the Great Depression.
In spite of numerous famed examples of the economic growth of Second Life an amateur analyst in 2008 estimated the income inequity in Second Life's economy as worse than has ever been recorded in any real economy: a Gini coefficient of 90. 2, a Hoover index of 77. 8, and a Theil index of 91 %.
In spite of difficult parliamentary conditions, the Willoch cabinet embarked on a series of reforms that to many seemed like reversals of long-standing social democratic reforms, and to others changes that reflected new and emerging economic realities.
Amidst the economic events of 1998, Mahathir had sacked Anwar as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, and he could now claim to have rescued the economy in spite of Anwar's policies.
This would keep one's ego down and help one remain humble in spite of high social and economic rank.
In spite of this, the New Jersey Legislature, led by Richard W. DeKorte, created the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission ( since renamed New Jersey Meadowlands Commission ) in 1968 to attempt to address both economic and environmental issues concerning the wetland region.
In the months after Tomas Bata's death, and in spite of the terrible economic conditions in Czechoslovakia, Jan Bata rose to the occasion and rehired all of the workers who had been let go.
However, Labour had been ascendant in the opinion polls since the Black Wednesday economic debacle a few months after the 1992 general election, and the increased lead of the polls under Blair's leadership remained strong in spite of the revolt.
The 2009 IPL was played in South Africa owing to safety concerns, but McGrath was used only to increase the bench strength of the Delhi Daredevils for whole of the tournament ; in spite of being the most economic bowler for Delhi in the previous season, he did not play a single match.
In spite of this, the separation of economic history and economics continued until the 1970s.
In spite of the economic problems faced by the Popular Front government, it succeeded in improving the lives of most workers in France.

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