Yet despite his opponents ' setbacks Louis XIV was desirous of peace – but he wanted it on reasonable terms.

Yet while seemingly defeatist in tone, the humanity of the characters shines through in their persistence despite the obstacles.

Yet, one modern scholar, reading between the lines, has described the work of Hecataeus as " a curious false start to history " because, despite its critical spirit, it failed to liberate history from myth.

Yet despite extensive collaboration, the Vichy regime engaged a programme of arresting German intelligence agents in the unoccupied zone, with the purpose of preserving Vichy's sovereignty ; around 2, 000 were arrested and some were subsequently executed.

Yet despite their mutual insistence on the self-evidence that " all men are created equal ", their insistence that the citizens of a republic be educated at public expense, and the evident parallel between the concepts of the " general welfare " and Rousseau's " general will ", some scholars maintain there is little to suggest that Rousseau had that much effect on Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers.

Yet, though generally speaking intentions in poetry are nothing save as ' realized ', we are unable to ignore the poem, despite Mr Eliot's strictures on its ' exaggerated repute '.

Yet, despite these apparent differences, notarial practice is universally considered to be distinct and separate from that of attorney ( solicitor / barrister ).

Yet despite his apparent liberality, Antonio López was a dictator who held Paraguayans on a tight leash.

Yet despite the challenge, Anguissola's paintings of Elisabeth of Valois – and later of Anne of Austria, Philip II ’ s fourth wife – were vibrant and full of life.

Yet, despite these changes, ratification of the amendment was still in some doubt.

Yet, despite improved living conditions, internal dissent was not tolerated.

Yet, in general, despite Greek colonization in such areas as Byzantium, Apollonia and other cities, the Thracians avoided urban life.

Yet many people favor protectionism as an expression of nationalism, despite its economic costs.

Yet despite these events God does not forget his people, but sends Cyrus, king of Persia as his messiah to deliver them from bondage.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

Yet, at the same time, Isabel and Charles struck against Margaret's family: with Henry VI and his son dead, Isabel was one of the most senior members of the House of Lancaster, and had a good claim to the English throne ; this claim she legally transferred to Charles in July, which would allow Charles later that year to officially claim the English throne, in despite of his brother-in-law the Yorkist King of England.

Yet despite his physical appearance, John was known as Kaloïōannēs, " John the Good " or " John the Beautiful ".

Yet, despite these occupations, Side managed to preserve some autonomy, grew prosperous, and became an important cultural centre.

Yet, despite his visits to England just before the war, only about four articles by Tschichold had been translated into English by 1945.

" Yet despite his contempt, the interactions related in his postcards often show his own ignorance.

Yet despite their strong-willed and independent natures, the people of Fairview took full part in the cooperative society of their times.

Yet, despite his later doctorate, Tucholsky never went on to a legal career: his inclination towards literature and journalism was stronger.

Yet, despite this anti-democratic feeling, democracy eventually returned to Athens after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants.

Yet despite the breach of trust, the governor once again released Smith on the same promise to leave the province immediately and not to return, and as before, Smith and his party remained in California hunting in Sacramento Valley for several months, before heading north along the Pacific Coast to use the Columbia River to return to their headquarters.

Yet despite the numerous enemies which his book raised up for him, most of these notices are favourable — notably that of Saint-Simon, an acute judge and one bitterly prejudiced against commoners generally.

Yet, for Hedayat, modernity was not just a question of scientific rationality or a pure imitation of European values.

Yet, in our times, scientific hylozoism – whether modified, or keeping the trend to make all beings conform to some uniform pattern, to which the concept was adhered in modernity by Herbert Spencer, Hermann Lotze, and Ernst Heinrich Haeckel – was often called upon as a protest against a mechanicistic view of the world.

Yet the very fact of its existence, being Russia's first statewide political ideology since the sixteenth century, indicated the nation's brewing transition to modernity.

Yet he led Britain into war for three main reasons: because he believed the British government had an obligation to British South Africans ; because he thought that the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, and the Cape Boers aspired to a Dutch South Africa, and that the achievement of such a state would damage Britain's imperial prestige around the world ; and because of the Boers ' treatment of black South Africans.

Yet he believed it might have taken a beginner 20 years of study to achieve this kind of movement.

Yet paradoxically Ferguson also believed that such commercial growth could foster a decline in virtue and thus ultimately lead to a collapse similar to Rome's.

Yet Rabbi Jose also believed that Ezekiel 40: 1 marked the beginning of the seventeenth Jubilee, and this was 14 years after the city fell.

Yet whatever Jane Rochford may or may not have said, it seems that the majority of the courtiers believed in his innocence, as can be seen from the wagers they were making in favour of acquittal.

Yet, some US businessmen and military officers believed that the nationalism of President Árbenz was a communist threat to the business interests of American multinational corporations, and advocated and supported the coup d ’ état against his government, despite the Guatemalan majority ’ s support and attachment to the original political principles of the October Revolution of 1944.

Yet his magnum opus, Birds of Arabia ( 1954 ), is believed to have been based on the unpublished manuscript of another naturalist, George Bates, who is not sufficiently credited in that book.

Yet in both cases there were some who believed that they saw seven or eight times more points than some other saw.

Yet Townsend believed Nui Dat's defences to be sufficient to deter such an attack, even if they remained incomplete, while the strategic reserve held by US II FFV could also be enacted if required.

Yet with up to two Viet Cong battalions still believed to be in the area and with the continued vulnerability of Nui Dat to attack from the 274th Regiment, Jackson lacked the resources to mount a pursuit of the withdrawing force.

Yet Jackson had been unable to mount a pursuit due to the continued threat posed by the 274th Regiment, which was still believed to be in the area.

Yet he believed that science was superior to literature as a method of inquiry.

For example birds such as the homing pigeon are believed to use the magnetite in their beaks to detect magnetic signposts and thus, the magnetic sense they gain from this pathway is a possible map. Yet, it has also been suggested that homing pigeons and other birds use the visually mediated cryptochrome receptor as a compass.

Yet gardens can also be perilous at times, specifically manioc which is believed to have traits of vampirism.

Yet Bissell and Eveleth, after realizing how flammable the liquid was, believed there was great money to be made in producing rock oil commercially, marketed as lamp fuel and such.

Yet those who created the ASCM fervently believed that Christian students could be agents of change in the university, the nation and the world.

Yet another possible suspect is Celsten Eklund, a well-known San Francisco radical orator, unemployed laborer, and passionate anarchist who had been previously involved in a series of labor demonstrations and altercations with police, and who was believed to have strong ties to the Italian anarchist community.

Yet while rejecting the moral influence view as a whole, Stott believed that some aspects of it ( and of the Ransom theory of atonement ) could be endorsed by those holding penal substitution.

Yet it was widely believed that the ambush was ordered by Reza Shah himself, as he felt increasingly threatened by Abdollah Khan AmirTahmasebi's rising popularity and military respect.

Yet it is not very likely that they went back to the fourth century BC, as he believed they did ; they may not have been more than a hundred years old.