In spite of the large British military presence in the colonies and its continued control of several major cities, in early 1782, the British parliament passed a resolution suspending further offensives against the Americans.

In spite of his resolution never to rejoin the Company's services, it was still with the home administration of the Company where lay his greatest possibility of finding employment as he was too old to travel to India.

In spite of a resolution sent to Washington, D. C. by the Nevada Legislature, the many political contacts he had gathered, and a trip to Washington, D. C. in 1872, Snowshoe Thompson was never paid for his services delivering the United States Mail.

“ Capital faithful to herself and to France, demonstrated, under the enemy occupation and oppression, and in spite of the voices of abandonment and treason, her unshakable resolution to fight on and to win.

In spite of the crisis ' formal resolution in 1997, most citizens of Zagreb and large parts of the Croatian public refused to acknowledge the new administration, considering the crisis an ongoing event.

Retail, travel and gaming are the region ’ s top eCommerce segments, in spite of difficulties such as the lack of region-wide legal frameworks and logistical problems in cross-border transportation.

In spite of its great popularity in the early 1980s, these problems allowed WordPerfect to take WordStar's place as the de facto word processor from 1985 onwards.

In spite of existing proofs of impossibility, some persist in trying to solve these problems.

This has generally been accepted, with biographers blaming his financial problems on his generosity towards his family and others, his inability to keep accounts ( in spite of advice from his friend the painter and diarist Joseph Farington ), and his magnificent but costly collection of Old Master drawings.

In spite of these early successes, all mechanical television systems shared a number of serious problems.

In spite of these problems in both the broadcast and display systems, RCA pressed ahead with development and was ready for a second assault on the standards by 1950.

In spite of its problems, CFNY garnered praise from its listeners and other broadcasters alike.

In spite of these problems, the United States Federal Communication Commission selected a sequential-frame 144 frame / s standard from CBS as their color broadcast in 1950.

In spite of the definitional problems, industries producing information goods and services are called information industries.

In spite of their growing success, Ministry was nearly derailed by a series of arrests and drug problems.

In spite of these problems the war in America had begun to recover for Britain, following the failure of a Franco-American attack on Newport and the prosecution of a Southern Strategy which saw Britain capture Charleston and its garrison.

In spite of pilot shortages, Lieutenant General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold was the person who needed to be convinced that women pilots were the solution to his staffing problems.

Gilbert's crews were made up of misfits, criminals and pirates, but in spite of the many problems caused by their lawlessness, the fleet did manage to reach Newfoundland.

Lakatos claimed that a research program is informed by metaphysical beliefs as well as observation of facts, and may infinitely resist falsification if a scientist wishes to continue holding it in spite of problems or the discovery of new evidence.

In spite of the small population size, the animals do not appear to suffer genetic problems from the genetic bottleneck.

In spite of many problems associated with his work, Gall made significant contributions to neurological science.

The SWOC encountered equally serious problems: after winning union recognition after a strike against Jones & Laughlin Steel, SWOC's strikes against the rest of " Little Steel ," i. e., Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, National Steel, Inland Steel American Rolling Mills and Republic Steel failed, in spite of support from organizations like the Catholic Radical Alliance.

There, in spite of his health problems, he continued his missionary work, for which he is considered An Apostle and Missionary of the New Continent ( quote by Fr.

In spite of all the problems and misunderstandings faced, Daniel strove to drive home his intuition: that European society and the Church were called to become much more concerned with the mission of Central Africa.

60, 000 fans came to greet the new generation which, in spite of all the problems, had great ambitions, but after a sequence of missed chances, they were punished by a last minute goal.

In spite of its many problems, Argentina's higher education managed to reach worldwide levels of excellence in the 1960s.

In spite of the fact that he acted less than a year that presented problems of health, the theory of a possible poisoning circulated since the first moment ( the letter from Roger de Bossost to Cardinal Richelieu ) and modern investigations support this possibility.

In spite of these problems Barnet won promotion to Division Two, but the Bees were unable to sustain themselves at this level and went down after one season with just five league wins in the campaign.

In spite of the financial problems, Barnet finished third in the new Division Three and secured the final automatic promotion spot.

At Yalta the West still believed that Eastern Europe could be kept in its orbit, in spite of the onrushing Soviet armies.

In spite of these doubts, women's houses dotted the countryside throughout Europe.

But in spite of these difficulties, the Empire remained a major expansionist power until the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe.

In spite of its dated image and being the subject of negative jokes, the Škoda remained a common sight on the roads of UK and Western Europe throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

In spite of the event's strong pedigree in the modern Olympics, and its status as the only event created specifically for the modern Olympic Games, its lack of widespread popularity outside Eastern Europe has led to calls for its removal from the Olympic Games in recent years ; however, a vote by the IOC on July 8, 2005, keeps it in the Olympic program at least until 2012.

In spite of the popularity of Art Nouveau in Europe, the Edwardian Baroque style of architecture was widely favoured for public structures and was a revival of Christopher Wren – inspired designs of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

In spite of its small size and population in comparison to the great land powers of Europe, it was able to acquire an overseas empire of vast proportions during Manuel's reign.

Home-schooled by their mother as well as private tutors in the United States and Europe, in spite of their father's fluctuating finances, they did not attend a regular school until they were in their teens.

It stresses, however, that this was out of compassion for people in difficulties, and quite unconnected with his well-known conservative views, in spite of which he conducted a personal " Ostpolitik " of contacts with the Soviet embassy in favour of the Church in Eastern Europe, without informing Pius XII of these contacts.

In spite of a conservative victory by Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP Party with 27. 9 % of the votes and an overall conservative victory all over Europe, Europe Écologie, the coalition founded by Cohn-Bendit, won over 16. 28 % of the votes, trailing the French Socialist Party led by Martine Aubry ( 16. 48 %) by only 0. 2 %.

In spite of missing notations in the history books, " For Eternity " is recognized as a doo-wop classic in the US and in Europe.

In spite of these measures, the strel ' tsy revolted yet again while Peter was on his Great Embassy in Europe.

In spite of being largely ignored by major record labels and the mainstream music press, with the support of the German independent record label InsideOut, the band continue to record and play regular live dates, particularly in Northern Europe.

In spite of these measures, the streltsy revolted yet again while Peter was on his Great Embassy in Europe.

In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music imported from the rest of Europe and the United States, the music of Scotland has kept many of its traditional aspects ; indeed, it has itself influenced many forms of music.

The media quoted some of Hancock's former Council of Europe's liberal group colleagues as saying that in the 2000s Hancock would usually come to their regular private gatherings alongside a series of young Russian and Ukrainian women-in spite of protests by some of those ; Hancock's former colleagues said they had witnessed his alleged assistants using the computers of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the liberal group secretariat, which were supposed to be protected by a password ; apparently his ' assistants ' knew the password.

The Birkie course is quite hilly, and is recognized as one of the more difficult cross country ski marathon courses in the world, in spite of the fact that there are several World Loppet events in Europe that are much longer.

In spite of massive fan response and several petitions for an English translation, the only response from Nintendo was that Mother 3 would be translated and released in Europe, which it never was.

In spite of this, he was regarded as one of the finest composers in Europe around the middle of the 16th century.

In spite ( or because ) of the controversy that his productions generally meet with, Bieito continues to be in demand across Europe and to sell out opera houses.

In spite of a good overall performance in Europe, the team suffered league relegation.

Princess Caroline has, however, tried to minimize publicity in spite of increasingly intensive coverage by the mass media, especially in Europe.

Urged by his Circassian mother, the sultan sought advice and counsel from Europe and endeavored to act on it, but advice not motivated by a conflict of interest was difficult to obtain, and in spite of the unquestionable desire of the young ruler to do the best for the country, wild extravagance both in action and expenditure resulted, leaving the sultan with depleted exchequer and the confidence of his people impaired.