In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

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.

Enzo cut the deal off out of spite and Henry Ford II, enraged, directed his racing division to find a company that could build a Ferrari-beater on the world endurance-racing circuit.

In 1981, Baker was named White House Chief of Staff by President Ronald Reagan, in spite of the fact that Baker managed the presidential campaigns of Gerald Ford in 1976 and of George Bush in 1980 opposing Reagan.

In spite of this, Ford estimated they still lost over a thousand dollars per car on the 3, 000 that were built.

In spite of the fact that Oldfield had still never driven an automobile, he and fellow racing cyclist Tom Cooper purchased both test vehicles when Ford offered to sell them for $ 800.

Henry Ford felt that he had succeeded in spite of, not because of, experts, who had tried to stop him in various ways ( disagreeing about price points, production methods, car features, business financing, and other topics ).

Ford Madox Ford presented another antithesis in his Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, in which the time traveler, in spite of being a trained engineer, lacks the technical know-how to develop modern technology from scratch in medieval society.

The Citizens ' Committee decides to hire Clay Blaisedell ( Henry Fonda ), a renowned gunfighter, as town marshal in spite of the misgivings of some, such as old Judge Holloway ( Wallace Ford ) who insists that the situation should be handled within the law ( though he admits that a loophole prevents it from being done effectively ).

In spite of this, Ford was not chosen in the MLB draft.

In spite of the hundred things he had on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her waist.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

Eventually, beset by delays and in spite of all of the media coverage and apparent demand for the machine, the project ultimately went under when Konix ran out of cash without a completed system ever being released.

Between 170 and 180 the activities of Septimius Severus went largely unrecorded, in spite of the fact that he occupied an impressive number of posts in quick succession.

Once Hopper achieved his mature style, his art remained consistent and self-contained, in spite of the numerous art trends that came and went during his long career.

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.

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.

The council went on ( in spite of the intervention of most of the powers ) to pronounce Eugene IV deposed ( 25 June 1439 ), giving rise to a new schism by electing ( 4 November 1439 ) duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy, as ( anti ) pope, who took the name of Felix V.

In spite of the religious strength in the Valley, the inhabitants were somewhat unconventional and still went to astrologers, quack doctors and prophets.

Roe maintains that he was not completely happy with half of the songs, although he went on to state that in spite of this, several of the songs such as " Fast Times at Dropout High " and " Road Signs and Rock Songs " were still to date some of the band's strongest of their earlier career.

The book went through a number of republishings-in the United States it acquired the even more confident subheader " This book will change your life ", in spite of its being a highly edited version of the original.

In spite of the neutral attitude taken by their government a number of the Free State Boers, living in the northern part of the country, went to the Transvaal and joined their brethren then in arms against the British.

In spite of this designation, Soap ranked # 13 for the 1977-78 season and went on to garner positive critical reviews and high ratings over the rest of its four-year run.

In spite of Spencer's efforts to secure the support of the Catholic hierarchy for the bill, they opposed it, and it went down to defeat in the commons in March 1873.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of a possible 4 stars, noting, " It's the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself, and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick.

The film performed poorly at the box office — in spite of Time magazine's prediction that it would " make a killing at the cash booths " and its assertion that Kubrick " has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors ' poll "— but was critically acclaimed, landing on several critical Top-Ten lists for the year.

The combination was too strong for him ; a bill which he brought in for curbing the influence of the Church over education was defeated, the elections of 1869 went against him, and in spite of the continued support of the king he was forced to resign ( 7 March 1870 ).

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.

After the October Revolution, Tukhachevsky joined the Russian Communist Party and went on to play a key role in the Red Army in spite of his noble ancestry.

-- a foolish girl -- in spite of all I could say or do -- would come after me -- or rather went before me -- for I found her here ...

Clandestine immigration went on in spite of the blockades, largely because of the work of Bricha and Aliyah Bet, two organized movements partially financed and supplied by JDC.

In spite of the ban, MOSOP went ahead with a massive public mobilization on January 4, 1993.

In spite of the Insurgency, the planned deportations to concentration and extermination camps went ahead without any delay.

In spite of the crisis, the colonial administration continued to make huge profits which were not invested on the island but either went into military expenditures ( 44 % of the revenue ), paid for the colonial government's expenses ( 41 %), or were sent to Spain and Fernando Po ( 12 %).