In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

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

Brown's concert success, however, remained unabated and Brown kept up with a grueling schedule throughout the remainder of his life, living up to his previous nickname, " The Hardest Working Man in Show Business ", in spite of his advanced age.

In spite of the controversy, the rebuilt Potsdamer Platz now attracts around 70, 000 visitors a day, rising to 100, 000 at weekends, and some critics have been surprised by the success of the new quarter.

In spite of his earlier hesitation to go through with the exchange, he had no doubts about his success, stating that Aleppo was " the key to the lands " and " this city is the eye of Syria and the citadel is its pupil.

Their marriage was a success, in spite of the age difference, and in spite of Yeats ' feelings of remorse and regret during their honeymoon.

) In spite of the LP's success, soon after its release a contractual dispute with their label, Virgin Records, saw XTC go " on strike " from 1992 through 1998, which finally resulted in the termination of their contract.

The early Spectrum models ' great success as a games platform came in spite of its lack of built-in joystick ports, primitive sound generation, and colour support that was optimised for text display: the hardware limitations of the platform required a particular level of creativity from video game designers.

In spite of a success sustained over many years, his musical ambition took him to Madrid, where zarzuela had a higher profile.

* December 14 The play Douglas is performed for the first time in Edinburgh, with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the local church presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.

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 ".

Garfield returned to Washington very glum in spite of his success, taking the campaign criticism quite hard.

In spite of initial difficulties, he started directing in the United States, and achieved success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

This influential group of people took sides against the development of Isaac Peral's submarine, and the Spanish Government, in spite of the notorious success of the official tests, finally closed the project.

In spite of Italy's poor showing, Prussia's success on the northern front obliged Austria to cede Venetia.

In spite of the series ' success, Alger was on financially uncertain ground and tutored the five sons of international banker Joseph Seligman.

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.

Though far from being a critical success – and in spite of receiving only a dozen or so performances – the popular reaction in favour of Boris made this the peak of Mussorgsky's career.

He played alongside Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn ( 1942 ) and later Blue Skies ( 1946 ) but, in spite of the enormous financial success of both, was reportedly dissatisfied with roles where he lost the girl to Crosby.

Lawrence's love affairs were not happy ( his tortuous relationships with Sally and Maria Siddons became the subject of several books ) and, in spite of his success, he spent most of life deep in debt.

In spite of the disappointing profits for the author, the book was a huge artistic success with most critics responding positively.

In spite of these reverses, Irene's military efforts met with some success: in 782 her favoured courtier Staurakios subdued the Slavs of the Balkans and laid the foundations of Byzantine expansion and re-Hellenization in the area.

In spite of their rich musical invention, neither of these operas met with the same success but both exerted great influence on the composers of the rising generation, like Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni and Umberto Giordano.

In spite of the endeavours of their rulers, Poles and Lithuanians did not wish to attack the kindred Czechs ; the Germans were prevented by internal discord from taking joint action against the Hussites ; and the King of Denmark, who had landed in Germany with a large force intending to take part in the crusade, soon returned to his own country.

But his account of the preparations for the crusade, and of English affairs in the king's absence, is valuable, in spite of some possible inaccuracies.

In spite of the Japanese threats the Buenavistans heroically continued their crusade against Japanese occupation throughout the war, including rescuing and hiding several the combined Filipino and American military personnel during the war.

In spite of the resolution of problems in Europe, Andronikos II was faced with the collapse of the Byzantine frontier in Asia Minor, despite the successful, but short, governorships of Alexios Philanthropenos and John Tarchaneiotes.

In spite of this defeat, Theodore was able to take advantage of the death of David Megaskomnenos, the brother of Emperor Alexios I of Trebizond in 1212 and to extend his own control over Paphlagonia.

As I ministered to his needs, I noticed that his face was radiant in spite of his suffering and I learned that he was trusting not only in the skill of his doctor and nurse but also the Lord.

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 ).

Interestingly, the geographic borderlines between the different accents ( isoglosses ) coincide strongly with the borders of the states and also with the border with Bavaria, with Bavarians having a markedly different rhythm of speech in spite of the similarities in the language.

In spite of the bitter protest of Simon b. Abba, he also taught his daughters Greek ( Yer.

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 ".

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 ).

Nintendo Power also listed it as the 20th best NES video game, and praised it for its " unique vertically scrolling stages, fun platforming, and infectious 8-bit tunes ", in spite of its " unmerciful difficulty ".

The Knicks reportedly wanted Albert to accept a salary commensurate with his reduced Knicks schedule, but also weren't happy about Albert making what Knicks management felt were overly critical comments about their team in spite of their losing record.

Authorship is also uncertain in spite of frequent attributions to David.

Mixed Economy – Fonseca ’ s understanding of the fact that Nicaragua was not, in spite of Browderist interpretations, simply a feudal country and that it had also never really developed its own capitalism surely made it clear that a simple feudalism-capitalism-socialism path was not a rational way to think about the future development of Nicaragua.

He also stated that in spite of the quality issues that resulted from this, he does not believe that T4 is the least popular or most controversial edition of the game.

They're also used for resonant transformers such as Tesla coils where they can achieve reasonably low loss in spite of the high leakage inductance.

Pictures of Lawrence suggest also that O ' Toole carried some resemblance to him, in spite of their considerable height difference.

A player also has the option to spend a spite token as a failure point to aid in thwarting an opponent's murder attempt.

In spite of the heroin chic movement, model Claudia Schiffer earned a staggering $ 12 million, proving the industry was more versatile than previous decades. The mid 1990s also saw many Asian countries establishing modeling agencies.

The cheetah is also known, in spite of its small gene pool, for few genetic illnesses.

As in Vietnam, numerous Hmong in Laos also genuinely tried to avoid getting involved in the conflict in spite of the extremely difficult material conditions under which they lived during wartime.

In the modern sequences the dialogue is more realistic, but Bernard consciously assumes some stylization of language: he not only tries out his forthcoming public lecture using heightened, flamboyant rhetoric, but also engages in a polemical piece of " performance art " to diminish Valentine's belief in the supremacy of scientific thought: not through spite, but merely as a " recreation ".

He also proclaimed his wife to be pregnant, merely to spite Louis Auguste and his wife Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria, who had not yet consummated their marriage.

In 1042 Harthacnut died while in England, and Magnus also became King of Denmark, in spite of a claim by Cnut's nephew Sweyn Estridsen, whom Harthacnut had left in control of Denmark when he went to England, and who had some support.

" Ours was a love story in spite of the marriage ," Caven explained in an interview, adding about her former husband's sexuality: " Rainer was a homosexual who also needed a woman.