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.

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.

Yet, in spite of this, intensive study of the taped interviews by teams of psychotherapists and linguists laid bare the surprising fact that, in the first five minutes of an initial interview, the patient often reveals as many as a dozen times just what's wrong with him ; ;

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 ).

In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.

* Beowulf's landing, an awkward reception at first, and stay at Heorot, being begged to stay there to fight king Hrothgar's enemies paralleling Aeneas ' landing and stay at Carthage, again, awkward at first, including being begged to stay there to fight the queen's enemies, but the hero decides to leave in spite of being promised great wealth and privilege.

They show that this model, when optimized for single-step decision making, produces Belief Anchoring and Polarization of opinions-exactly as described in the global warming controversy context-in spite of identical evidence presented, the pre-existing beliefs ( or evidence presented first ) has an overwhelming effect on the beliefs formed.

Oxford received his first vote for membership in the Order of the Garter in 1569, but never attained the honor in spite of his high rank and office.

Also, in spite of ideological differences, Fascist Italy was the first western country to recognize the Soviet Union, in 1933 Fascist Italy had signed a friendship and nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union, and in the late 1930s both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany supported rapproachment with the Soviet Union.

It remained so in spite of the first Greater Poland Uprising ( 1794 ), part of the unsuccessful Kościuszko Uprising directed chiefly against Russia.

In spite of the changes, the fifth album's first single, " Little L ", reached # 1 in many charts worldwide becoming their best dance hit.

She manoeuvred to have the Norwegian Council recognize him as heir to the throne of Norway, in spite of his not being first in the line of succession, and he was installed as king of Norway in 1389, still with Margaret as his guardian.

Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light burned oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first.

* 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.

In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, the couple married on 23 January 1906: their first two children, Fyodor ( Theodore ) and Ludmila, were born in 1907 and 1908, respectively.

The first practical JFETs were made many years later, in spite of their conception long before the junction transistor.

It remained so in spite of the first Greater Poland Uprising ( 1794 ), part of the unsuccessful Kościuszko Uprising directed chiefly against Russia.

Italy was ill-prepared for war, in spite of the fact that it had continuously been involved in conflict since 1935, first with Ethiopia in 1935 – 1936 and then in the Spanish Civil War on the side of Francisco Franco's Nationalists.

The main French assault was launched on 25 September and at first made good progress, in spite of surviving wire entanglements and machine gun posts.

In spite of this, she lets her name be used and serves as the jihad's leader for its first twenty years.

And during the first two years of the German occupation, in spite of his age and the precarious situation, he nonetheless took a daily ride on his horse, " Jubilee ", through Copenhagen, unaccompanied by a groom, let alone by a guard.

Sturges and Paramount producer Albert Lewin had some written disagreement in 1939 about the development of the script, with Lewin writing to Sturges, " the first two-thirds of the script, in spite of the high quality of your jokes, will require an almost one hundred percent rewrite.

It was one of the rare flops in his career and barely scraped a run of seven weeks at the Vaudeville Theatre, in spite of the stellar cast of Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Susan Littler, Philip Sayer, Liz Smith ( who replaced Joan Hickson during rehearsals ) and in his first West End role Marc Sinden.