The highly intellectual minds that Krim says he encountered, in the Village did their work in spite of,, not because of, any Village atmosphere.

They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies, and in spite of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt.

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.

He cannot avoid observing that some of the children, in spite of their color, remind him of children he has known and loved, perhaps even of his own children.

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.

In spite of the very difficult batting conditions, however, Hobbs and Sutcliffe took their partnership to 172 before Hobbs was out for exactly 100.

Those who continue to have faith in astrology have been characterized as doing so " in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary.

The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.

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.

But the striking fact which, in spite of their occurrence, disproved the conspiracy theory is that few of these conspiracies are ultimately successful.

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.

* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.

Their areoles identify them as cacti, and in spite of their appearance they too have many adaptations for water conservation.

In spite of the occasional exceptions in early epic, most of the later rules of hexameter composition have their origins in the methods and practices of Homer.

In spite of Diocletian's attempts at reform, the provincial restructuring was far from clear, especially when citizens appealed the decisions of their governors.

In spite of this, however, a few company founders made vast fortunes when their companies were bought out at an early stage in the dot-com stock market bubble.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

These women continued to adhere to traditional practices such as Christian burials and naming their children after saints in spite of revolutionary decrees to the contrary.

Thiers wanted the " middle class accommodated " with the vote, realizing that the petty bourgeoisie ( owners of small business ventures ) supported property interests, in spite of their being ruined by the rise of the larger bourgeoisie.

In spite of their smaller brain, there is evidence that H. floresiensis used fire and made stone tools at least as sophisticated as those of their proposed ancestors H. erectus.

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 the mid-20th century the tales were used as propaganda by the Third Reich ; later in the 20th century psychologists such as Bruno Bettelheim reaffirmed the value of the work, in spite of the cruelty and violence in the original versions of some of the tales that were sanitized.

McCabe doesn't want to sell at their initial price, but he overplays his hand in the negotiations in spite of Mrs. Miller's warnings that he is underestimating the violence that will ensue if they don't take the money.

All proceeds from the sales of the items went to the " We The People " group ; a group dedicated to changing the parole laws for convicted murders such as McFadden ( who was paroled in spite of a past marked by violence ) due to overcrowding.

In 1836, he joined James G. Birney in the editorial control of the Philanthropist ; in the following year he succeeded Birney as editor, and conducted the paper until 1847 in spite of threats and acts of violence – the printing office of the Philanthropist was wrecked three times by mobs.

In spite of the candid language and depictions of guerilla war and gory violence, the book feels more like a 19th-century classic along the lines of Melville and Conrad than a modern blood-and-guts thriller, although it serves quite well in the latter capacity.

The imperturbable courtesy of his style is in striking contrast to the violence of his opponents ; and, in spite of his unorthodoxy, he was not an atheist or even an agnostic.

The central theme of the novel may be the way in which human nature, perhaps because of its very propensity for violence and war rather than in spite of it, provides the best hope human beings have at defeating the alien enemy.

In spite of her situations, she harbors no ill will towards Akiko or just about anyone, but is more than willing to resort to violence when push comes to shove.

In spite of the violence, the strike's demands were moderate, typical of a socialist strike of the time.

The slow arrival of the union's thinly stretched strike funds tests the patience of Danny and other miners who become disillusioned and turn to violence in spite of Kenehan's warnings.

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.

At the time, the only dictator that would have immediately come to an American mind was Benito Mussolini, whose popular image was one of audacity and strength, in spite of well-publicized fascist violence.

These steps are in spite of the fact that experience consistently shows that monitoring youth does little to prevent violence or tragedy: the Columbine High School massacre occurred in a building with video surveillance and in-building police.

By then, the UP itself and many of its then leaders ( such as presidential candidate Jaramillo, and senator Cepeda, murdered later in 1994 ), in spite of the wave of violence unleashed against them, rejected the violence and continued to insist for a negotiated settlement in order to end Colombia's conflict.

A powerful portrayal of tribal violence and the devastation it brings in its wake in spite of attempts to stand against it, it remains Murphy's best known and most performed play.

In his 1980 autobiography Ways of Escape, Greene wrote that his aim with this book was " to write a novel of espionage free from the conventional violence, which has not, in spite of James Bond, been a feature of the British Secret Service.

It did not support the Irish republican movement until 1921, as it espoused violence, in spite of support from many individual priests, and opposed the anti-Treaty side in the Irish civil war.

In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.

Its long neck gives it a large amount of dead space, in spite of its narrow windpipe.

In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.

The content of the decision ( e. g., the stock, amount, time and means ) is the product of an act of prudence, while the actual carrying out of the decision may involve other virtues like fortitude ( doing it in spite of fear of failure ) and justice ( doing his job well out of justice to his company and his family ).

In spite of these procurement actions, the channel is still considered to be inferior in the amount of its viewers relatively to the other channels.

In spite of the huge amount of French literature discussing the Black Mass ( Messe Noire ) at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century — no set of written instructions for performing one, from any purported group of Satanists, turned up in writing until the 1960s, and appeared not in France, but in the United States.

In spite of his weak health, an almost incredible amount of work was crowded into those years.

In spite of being extremely successful, Diana Vreeland made a small amount of money from the Hearst Corporation, which owned Harper's Bazaar.

Sears also points out the supposed irony: " data analysis ... shows that in spite of the fact that the American public has dramatically cut back on the amount of fat consumed, the country has experienced an epidemic rise in obesity.

In spite of the vast amount of research on chemical modification of wood, and, more specifically, on the acetylation of wood, commercialization did not come easily.

In spite of the many calls upon his time he produced a considerable amount of literary work, usually on classical or Scottish subjects, including some poems and songs of no mean order.

In any case, judges need to have a vast amount of knowledge and experience and retain objectivity in spite of any personal preference.

In spite of this, Clive is something of a womaniser, and has enjoyed a moderate amount of success.

In spite of his own inexperience in military affairs and this formidable opposition, Stanhope achieved a fair amount, although it was his Liberal successor, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who managed to push Cambridge into retirement.

However, in spite of President Gowen's glowing predictions at year-end 1883, " carcely any of the benefits of plan of reorganization had been secured ; fixed charges had not been reduced, because it had been impossible to get creditors to take new securities in exchange for the old, and equally impossible to sell any considerable amount of the new securities for cash.

His defence argued that in spite of the amount of evidence, there was no proof Ivan Milat was guilty and attempted to shift the blame to other members of his family, particularly Richard.

The trouble with The Decline of Eastern Christianity is that in spite of the gathering of an enormous amount of historical material, and although she has raised an issue that well deserves study, Bat Ye ' or has written a polemical tract, not responsible historical analysis. Meanwhile, the historical question remains to be answered: why is it that from the mid-7th century to the 20th century the number of Christians in the Islamic world has dwindled from a majority in many areas of the Middle East to virtual insignificance in terms of demography?

In spite of these problems, FullWrite developed a faithful following and some amount of commercial success.

In spite of being owned by a religious organization, KDTU offered the second least amount of religious programming of all the commercial stations in the market.