In spite of the lack of competition, or perhaps to preempt it, Topps also created two sets of cards for the short-lived United States Football League in the 1980s.

In spite of using highly efficient CCFLs, most sets use several hundred watts of power, more than would be required to light an entire house with the same technology.

But historical inaccuracy and mixing of styles raised-especially in Moscow-a few criticisms, in spite of the general taste for sets and costumes reinvented with a minimum of realism and a maximum of grandeur.

Filming ' indoor ' sets on open outdoor lots and combating the elements, communicating with actors in spite of overwhelming distraction and deafening noise, directors ( male and female ) fashion great films out of chaos and confusion.

The Major deliberately sets out to befriend Dombey in order to spite his neighbour in Princess's Place, Miss Tox, who has turned cold towards him owing to her hopes-through her close friendship with Mrs Chick-of marrying Mr Dombey.

With incompetent direction and Talmadge's inexperience at a role requiring very demanding vocal acting, the film was a failure, in spite of the elaborate sets by William Cameron Menzies.

In spite of their legal success, Canon announced at the same time that the financial crisis of 2008 was making introduction of the sets far from certain, going so far as to say they would not be launching the product at that time " because people would laugh at them ".

In spite of this, and much to the distress of local fans, host nation USA lost the finals in straight sets to a communist nation, China.

In spite of the size difference, several sets of puma-ocelot hybrids were born to the same parents who shared an enclosure in a private collection.

In this language, spite is difficult to analyze because one has to assess two sets of preferences.

Rutland sets about playing matchmaker for the two young people, in spite of their disparate personalities and Easton ’ s engagement to boringly dependable British diplomat Julius P. Haversack ( John Standing ).

In spite of the significant drop in the last decade, food industry is still giving up to 14 % of total industrial production and amounts to 7-8 % of the country's exports.

In spite of the significant drop in the last decade, food industry is still giving up to 14 % of total industrial production and amounts to 7-8 % of the country's exports.

Thus, during the Great Depression, the company maintained steady production levels in spite of the lack of demand for aluminum.

In spite of these declarations, the EU Commission proposed the continuation of cotton subsidies, coupled to production.

In spite of the show's popularity, the show was beset with production delays and censorship battles with Nickelodeon, which fired Kricfalusi in 1992.

In spite of efforts to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of its production, the last cotton spun in the town was in 1998.

However, in spite of the continuous emergency in which the Relapse production was mounted, most of Vanbrugh's original intentions were eventually carried out.

In spite of this, the film was considered a failure and did not recover its production costs upon initial release.

In spite of the relatively successful box office returns of Clash of the Titans, more sophisticated technology developed by ILM and others began to eclipse Harryhausen's production techniques, and so MGM and other studios passed on funding the making of his follow-up story, Force of the Trojans, causing Harryhausen and Schneer to retire from active filmmaking.

Also very well known artists with a status of a " classic ", J. Karjalainen and Pauli Hanhiniemi have in their contemporary production gone to the direction of folk-music although this music has in spite of being recognized by critics, been left unnoticed by the larger public.

In spite of his considerable literary production, Carleton remained poor, but received a pension in 1848 of £ 200 a year granted by Lord John Russell in response to a memorial on Carleton's behalf signed by numbers of distinguished persons in Ireland.

In spite of these early successes, other German designs quickly eclipsed von Ohain's, and none of his engine designs entered widespread production or operational use.

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 ).

In spite of efforts to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of its production, the last cotton was spun in the town in 1998.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lenfilm became a quasi-private film production company of Russia, retaining its name in spite of renaming of the city of Leningrad to St. Petersburg.

Perhaps the peak of Carpeaux's production was his eight-volume História da Literatura Ocidental ( History of Western Literature ), unfortunately available only in Portuguese, in spite of being in public domain.

But in spite of all of these problems, the Mark XV was so superior to any other design that the Navy ordered it into production.

1841 – 1881, the population of Laoise, which was then called the Queens County halved from mass emigration and starvation, in spite of the fact that Co. Laoise and most other counties increased food production throughout the period.

However, the peak production under BLMC was 62, 834 in 1972, in spite of exports increasing from one ( 1 ) car in 1971 to over 17, 000 in 1974.

In spite of many predictions that other technologies would always beat LCDs, massive investment in LCD production, manufacturing, and electronic image processing has addressed many of these concerns.

This was in spite of the fact that plasmas continued to hold an image quality advantage, but as the president of Chunghwa Picture Tubes noted after shutting down their plasma production line, " Globally, so many companies, so many investments, so many people have been working in this area, on this product.

" In spite of the history and reputation, when NUMMI reopened the factory for production in 1984, most of the troublesome GM workforce was rehired, with some sent to Japan to learn the Toyota Production System.

Candescent pushed ahead with development in spite of problems, breaking ground on a new production facility in Silicon Valley in 1998, partnering with Sony.

In spite of changes made by Hollingworth to rectify the soap opera's early problems ( ratings improved over the course of the show's run, as did the quality of the storylines ), it was claimed that this was not enough to justify its continued production, and incoming Controller of BBC1 Alan Yentob cancelled the programme, which had been commissioned by his predecessor Jonathan Powell.

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

In spite of this progress, however, the fate of human civilization remains closely linked to changes in the environment.

The 1940s saw a rapid expansion of psychosurgery, in spite of the fact that it involved a significant risk of death and severe personality changes.

In spite of all the changes in the field of radio broadcasting, this medium lost the majority of the listeners ratings during the nineties, and by the end of the decade, the radio was considered to be a communication medium which had few listeners in relatively to the television.

Nevertheless, in spite of these institutional changes, sovereignty still resided in the emperor on the basis of his divine ancestry.

As Griffenfeldt predicted, Sweden's stronger ally France was the party that dictated the peace with Denmark's ally Holland, and in spite of Danish victory at sea in the battles against Sweden in 1675 – 1679 during the Scanian War, Danish hopes for border changes on the Scandinavian Peninsula between the two countries were dashed.

In spite of difficult parliamentary conditions, the Willoch cabinet embarked on a series of reforms that to many seemed like reversals of long-standing social democratic reforms, and to others changes that reflected new and emerging economic realities.

In spite of the changes taking place in a person, some character-patterns are repeated, even over many lives, before they are worn out or replaced by others in accordance with the law of dependent origination.

In spite of the changes, merengue remained the most popular form of music in the Dominican Republic.

Bulgarian relations with Greece, a traditional enemy, were stable throughout the 1970s and 1980s, in spite of major government changes in both countries.

One party seeing that in spite of the changes in the last sixty years of all political institutions the position of the people had not been improved, demanded a reform of society itself, the abolition of the privileged position of property, the only obstacle to equality, and as an emblem hoisted the red flag ( the 1791 red flag was, however, the symbol not merely of the French Revolution, but rather of martial law and of order < ref name = Ozouf > Mona Ozouf, < span lang =" fr ">" Liberté, égalité, fraternité "</ span >, in < span lang =" fr "> Lieux de Mémoire </ span > ( dir.

Many Sub-Saharan African's economies failed to take off during the 1990s, in spite of efforts at policy reform, changes in the political and external environments, and continued heavy influx of foreign aid.

The will surely indicated that Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, 4th Baron Bliss of the Former Kingdom of Portugal, 57 years at his death, was a courageous nobleman, rigid, meticulous, and a well-arranged character, who at all times, in spite of unexpected changes had order in his life style.

In spite of this, and further major changes to its borders that saw it become a south-western Sydney suburban electorate over 150 km away from Lake George, it has retained the name of Werriwa, primarily as it is an original Federation electorate-the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original Federation electorates where possible.

In spite of this robustness, significant separation from a familiar caregiver — or frequent changes of caregiver that prevent the development of attachment — may result in psychopathology at some point in later life.

The project “ ZukunftsWerkStadt (" FutureWorkTown ") is designed to achieve a long lasting effect in urban development in spite of dramatic changes that happened in the east of Germany after the reunion.

MKM steel is tough and durable, inexpensive to produce, maintains strong magnetism when miniaturized and can produce a stable magnetic force in spite of temperature changes or vibration.

The changes in the flow also limited river navigation ( in spite of size of the river in periods with a high flow.

In spite of it, during early 1976, a Gibraltarian inter-party Constitution Committee began to work on a proposal of constitutional changes that involved a further integration of Gibraltar with the United Kingdom.

Kreutzer owes his fame almost exclusively to Das Nachtlager in Granada ( 1834 ), which kept the stage for half a century in spite of changes in musical taste.

Many Parisian streets have retained their ancient denomination in spite of city growth ; today it is still possible to discern pre-1860 delimitations in Paris by marking the point where a thoroughfare's name changes from rue to rue du faubourg.

In spite of that, the introduction of positively selective genetic changes by such mechanism can be put forward for consideration by the example of SIGLEC11.

In spite of these changes, in the early 1980s several members of SISDE were involved in the Propaganda 2 masonic lodge scandal.