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spite and fact
In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.
Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.
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 ; ;
This has led many more to choose Acapulco, in spite of the fact that the flight is longer and more expensive than to Cancun for many travelers.
Those who continue to have faith in astrology have been characterized as doing so " in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary.
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.
But the striking fact which, in spite of their occurrence, disproved the conspiracy theory is that few of these conspiracies are ultimately successful.
" Meinhof did this in spite of earlier work by scholars such as Lepsius and Johnston demonstrating that the languages which he would later dub " Nilo-Hamitic " were in fact Nilotic languages with numerous similarities in vocabulary with other Nilotic languages.
This in spite of the fact that tools may exist to help migration between specific DBMS.
While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.
Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.
Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light burned oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first.
In both schemes, account has been taken of the fact that — in spite of the many difficulties in establishing the dates of the historical events involved — many scholars attribute a high degree of probability to Friday April 7, 30, as the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, which would make April 9 the date of the Resurrection.
In spite of the fact that the Italian navy sealed the sultanate's main coastal entrance, they could not succeed in stopping them from receiving arms and ammunition through it.
However, in spite of the fact that several competing engines were more advanced, the aerodynamic and low-slung Hudson Hornet managed to win in 1951, 1952, and 1953 with a 308 cu. in.
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.
Swedish traditional dishes, some of which are many hundreds of years old, others perhaps a century or less, are still a very important part of Swedish everyday meals, in spite of the fact that modern day Swedish cuisine adopts many international dishes.
Mixed Economy – Fonseca ’ s understanding of the fact that Nicaragua was not, in spite of Browderist interpretations, simply a feudal country and that it had also never really developed its own capitalism surely made it clear that a simple feudalism-capitalism-socialism path was not a rational way to think about the future development of Nicaragua.
This was in spite of the fact that counties Fermanagh and Tyrone had Catholic Nationalist majorities.
In spite of the fact that the decreed definition of the gram specified water at 0 ° C — a highly reproducible temperature — the scientists chose to redefine the standard and to perform their measurements at the temperature of highest water density, which was measured at the time as.
Daley defended his actions by claiming that the airport was abandoned, in spite of the fact that the Chicago Fire Department had several helicopters based on the field at the time, in addition to the dozens of private aircraft left stranded.
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 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 what is mistakenly stated in the Liber Pontificalis, he did not in fact suffer martyrdom.

spite and state
Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.
But in spite of the best efforts of Atchison and the Ruffians, Kansas did reject slavery and finally became a free state in 1861.
The " Limbo of the Patriarchs " or " Limbo of the Fathers " ( Latin limbus patrum ) is seen as the temporary state of those who, in spite of the personal sins they may have committed, died in the friendship of God, but could not enter Heaven until redemption by Jesus Christ made it possible.
In spite of his service to ( and in his artwork the glorification of ) the government, he was hardly a great supporter of the monarchy or of the state church.
The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father ; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe (" The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite !/ That ever I was born to set it right!
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.
* October 23 – In Paris, the Vietnam-backed government of the state of Cambodia signs an agreement with the Khmer Rouge to end the civil war and bring the Khmer Rouge into government in spite of its role in the Cambodian genocide.
The Jennings family approved the release in spite of the launch of a new business focused on his state.
They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.
In spite of the League of Nations ' approach, the new state was diplomatically recognised by El Salvador ( 3 March 1934 ) and the Dominican Republic ( 1934 ), the Soviet Union ( de facto 23 March 1935 ; de jure 13 April 1941 ), Italy ( 29 November 1937 ), Francoist Spain ( 2 December 1937 ), Germany ( 12 May 1938 ) and Hungary ( 9 January 1939 ).
In spite of supporting the government from the backbenches, Seán MacBride, the leader of Clann na Poblachta, tabled a motion of no confidence, based on the weakening state of the economy and in opposition to the government's stance on the IRA.
For example, in a LR ( 1 ) grammar, all of the following rules transition to a different state in spite of being based on the same state sequence.
Most recently, the town served as the backdrop for Paul Cuadros ' novel A Home on the Field, a true story about his experience coaching an Hispanic high school soccer team to a state championship in spite of adversity.
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.
Available sources however document that the responsible state commission clearly advocated the continuation of Wies as a pilgrimage site, even in spite of economic objections from the abbot of Steingaden.
He represented to the Jacobites — what was probably in the main true — that though eager for their success his weak health and advanced years prevented him from joining the standard of the prince in person, while to the Lord President Forbes he professed his cordial attachment to the existing state of things, but lamented that his son, in spite of all his remonstrances, had joined Bonnie Prince Charlie, and succeeded in taking with him a strong force from the clan of the Frasers.
Allying himself with Lady Castlemaine, he encouraged Charles's increasing dislike of Clarendon ; and he was made secretary of state in October 1662 in spite of the opposition of Clarendon, who had to find him a seat in parliament.
In spite of the Action Françaises support for Roman Catholicism as state religion and the fact that the vast majority of its members were practising Catholics ( indeed, they included significant numbers of clergy ), some Catholics regarded it with distrust.
In spite of not being the largest state of Brazil, Minas Gerais has the largest number of cities.
Self-discipline can be defined as the ability to motivate oneself in spite of a negative emotional state.
In spite of the combined efforts of state and local governments in Idaho and Colorado, the Mine Owners ' Associations, the Pinkerton and Thiel Detective Agencies, and other interested industrialists, the jury acquitted Bill Haywood.
During the Nieuw Holland episode, the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege, in spite of the presence of the Count John Maurice of Nassau as governor ( 1637 – 1644 ) in Recife.
In 2005, in spite of opposition from the Alaska Legislature, Murkowski purchased a Westwind II jet with state money for $ 2. 7 million.

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