There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

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 ".

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

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

In spite of these differences the marriage survived until Mary's death in 1783.

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.

In spite of these at-times intense persecutions, the Christian religion continued its spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin.

However, in spite of these recorded Manx forms, no satisfactory etymology has been proposed for Hop-tu-Naa within Goidelic.

In spite of these specifications and bearing in mind their target gaming market, Flare aimed to retail their machine for around £ 200, half of what the Amiga and ST were selling for.

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 ).

In spite of the casual occasions that generated these recordings, their quality is almost always quite high, and they document the evolution of Davis ' style and sound.

In spite of these issues, majority owner Leon Hess was interested in renewing the team's lease at Shea, which was due to expire in 1983.

In spite of these warnings, meloxicam is frequently prescribed " off-label " for non-canine animals including cats and livestock species.

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.

One approximate result is that bodies will usually have reasonably stable orbits around a heavier planet or moon, in spite of these perturbations, provided they are orbiting well within the heavier body's hill sphere.

In spite of these reforms, the conquered lands and the city itself were harassed by the rivalry between the two families of Della Gherardesca and Visconti.

In spite of these issues, initial sales in North America were strong.

But if that be entirely intrusted to the magistracy ,-- a select body of men, and those generally selected, by the prince, of such as enjoy the highest offices of the state ,-- these decisions, in spite of their own natural integrity, will have frequently an involuntary bias towards those of their own rank and dignity.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

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.

But in spite of his use of the term Orphism these works were so different that they defy attempts to place them in a single category.

In spite of these criticisms, federal government support has made abstinence the de facto focus of sex education in the United States, so that opponents frequently adopt the line that abstinence education is acceptable only if it is combined with other methods, such as instruction in the use of condoms, and easy availability thereof.

In spite of these arguments, most editions of the play have continued to use the name Imogen.

In spite of his protests that the crops failed because fruit was not meant to grow on these islands, Howie is stripped bare, dressed in ceremonial robes and led to the summit of a cliff with his hands tied.

Below these levels treatment may not be effective in spite of a seizure, while doses massively above threshold level, especially with bilateral ECT, expose patients to the risk of more severe cognitive impairment without additional therapeutic gains.

* 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

But in spite of the best efforts of Atchison and the Ruffians, Kansas did reject slavery and finally became a free state in 1861.

" He acknowledged that, in spite of his efforts — in TV programs such as Dancing: A Man's Game ( 1958 ) for example — the situation changed little over the years.

Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.

In spite of concerted efforts to uphold the statute, it eventually failed due to competition among landowners for labour.

But in spite of all the efforts of the Antiochene party, the representatives of the envoys whom the council was eventually allowed to send, with the legate Philip, to the Court, persuaded the emperor to accept Cyril's council as the true one.

In spite of the efforts of his Jacobin friends to save him, Babeuf was arrested, tried, and convicted for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals.

In December 1866, the last of the French troops departed from Rome, in spite of the efforts of the pope to retain them.

He then escapes, in spite of the efforts of John's men.

In spite of her strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, Garbo paradoxically became one of the twentieth-century's most publicized women in the world.

Over the following 60 years or so, he was involved in many of the major military conflicts of the 19th century — always in spite of his best efforts to evade his duty.

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.

During Henry's reign, Protestantism became an important minority religion in France, in spite of his efforts to suppress it.

In spite of their joint efforts Rangi and Papa remain close together in their loving embrace.

In spite of the efforts of the engineer Ignaz Venetz to drain the growing lake, the ice dam collapsed catastrophically in June 1818.

In 1980, he described New Zealand as a country living on borrowed money, unable in spite of the record efforts of its exporters to pay its own way in the world.

In spite of their efforts, the fort only lasted a few years.

In spite of village board efforts, " progress " has resulted in higher density developments surrounding Kildeer while it remains an island of rural countryside.

In spite of Hitler's discouraging reserve, she did not abandon her efforts through all those years ".

In spite of Schmutzer's efforts, Cocke County continued to struggle with organized crime.

In spite of massive efforts to help the survivors with food and medical treatment, led by Brigadier Glyn Hughes, Deputy Director of Medical Services of 2nd Army, about another 9, 000 died in April, and by the end of June 1945 another 4, 000 had died ( after liberation a total of 13, 994 people died ).

In spite of tireless efforts to arrange funding no branch of the military was interested, as he later noted, " The Navy said it was a plane not a boat ; the Air Force said it was a boat not a plane ; and the Army were ' plain not interested '".

In 1691 he was received into the French Academy in spite of the determined efforts of the partisans of the " ancients ", especially Racine and Boileau, who on four previous occasions had ensured his rejection.

In spite of Blueprint's great lead-it was running when MSDA was still a paper project-Lotus eventually joined the MSDA efforts as it became clear that SQL would become the de-facto database standard.

In spite of their best efforts, the wide electron beams simply could not focus tightly enough to hit the individual dots, at least over the entirety of the screen.