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.

In spite of Dunn's skepticism, this version has been accepted by Evan Bayh, who has served as Indiana governor and senator, and by Senator Vance Hartke, who introduced this story into the Congressional Record ( 1975 ), according to Graf.

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.

In 1975, Armstrong baptized Stanley Rader, who until then had been a practicing Jew in spite of his association with the church.

The big Thunderbirds were popular with sales peaking at over 87, 000 units in 1973 in spite of the 1973 oil crisis, but sales had slumped to less than 43, 000 by 1975.

In spite of local opposition, Chugiak and Eagle River became annexed to the Municipality of Anchorage, when the City of Anchorage and the Greater Anchorage Area Borough were unified in 1975.

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.

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

* Ceuta and Melilla, both cities, were granted autonomy — albeit limited — in spite of not being provinces themselves.

In spite of a vigorous challenge, the Pennsylvania General Assembly granted an expansion of Jefferson College's charter in 1826, endorsing the creation of the new department and allowing it to grant medical degrees.

In spite of Waugh's greater experience, Taylor was granted the captaincy, while Healy was made vice-captain.

In spite of the imperial ban, he devastated its lands, intercepted its commerce, and desisted only when his demands were granted.

In spite of all sorts of obstacles, and of the slowness of the Holy See, which in 1693 imparted indulgences to the Confraternities of the Sacred Heart and, in 1697, granted the feast to the Visitandines with the Mass of the Five Wounds, but refused a feast common to all, with special Mass and Office.

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 this, Argentine foreign policy kept a Third World orientation ; for example, in August 1973, Argentina granted Cuba a 200 million US $ loan to buy machinery and cars.

In spite of this, Henry III lavishly granted licenses ( which were not authorized by statute ).

The White House pushed back against the book in spite of having granted Ron Suskind an interview with the president.

In 1669 the people of the town successfully petitioned King Charles II and in 1670 he granted the Lord of the Manor of Doddington a Royal Charter endowing the right to hold a market with two annual fairs, in spite of the opposition of Wisbech Corporation.

As freedom of faith was granted to them, the Orthodox faith was preserved in spite of their living in a Catholic country.

In spite of the freedom offered by the genres, gay characters often remain contrived and stereotypical, and most SF stories take for granted the continuation of heteronormative institutions.

In spite of this, the Spaniards soon took the natives and their generosity for granted and as a result, the Querandíes ended relations with the white men and relocated further away from the Spanish settlement.

Specsavers ' use of Édith Piaf in advertisements has caused some adverse comment in the press in spite of the fact that full permission had been granted by the estate of the performer.

In spite of his Protestantism, Perrot was granted the castle and lordship of Carew in Pembrokeshire, and at the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign the naval defence of South Wales was entrusted to his care.

Vieyra was trained in filmmaking at the prestigious Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographique ( IDHEC ) in Paris, and in spite of the ban on filmmaking in Africa, was granted permission to make a film in France.

Craddock steals the tenth soul from Sherlock Holmes and is granted what seems to be his wish in spite of Batman's warning of what will come to pass.

In 1248 Rhys Fychan ap Rhys Mechyll's mother Matilda de Braose, to spite her son, granted the castle to the Norman English, but before the English took possession of it Rhys captured the castle.

In spite of his " advocacy " for the preservation of electronic records, late on the night of January 19, 1993 ( the day before the end of George H. W. Bush's presidency ), Wilson signed a controversial deal, giving President Bush exclusive legal control over 5, 000 tapes from White House computers.

In spite of Resident Evil Zeros underwhelming sales, Mikami remained confident in his support for Nintendo and announced four exclusive titles for the GameCube under development by Production Studio 4 in addition to Resident Evil 4 ; P. N. 03, Viewtiful Joe, killer7 and Dead Phoenix.

In spite of a long-range program to double the company's retail business, he cut off drugstores carrying Coty products if they would not agree to provide display space of at least 16 feet in length for exclusive stocking of these goods.

We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.

Never forget that you can still do your share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and frustrations and disappointments.

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.

Some foreign analysts have pointed to widespread starvation, increased emigration through North Korea-China border, and new sources of information about the outside world for ordinary North Koreans as factors pointing to an imminent collapse of the regime, but North Korea has remained stable in spite of more than a decade of such predictions.

" In spite of the strained relations between them in the last years of Luther's life, Melanchthon exclaimed at Luther's death, " Dead is the horseman and chariot of Israel who ruled the Church in this last age of the world!

The church was the only institution capable of communicating with the outside world, so with this in mind the new Apostolic Administrator started writing letters and building up overseas contacts, in spite of the isolation arising from the opposition of the Indonesians and the disinterest of most of the world.

In spite of her strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, Garbo paradoxically became one of the twentieth-century's most publicized women in the world.

In 1980, he described New Zealand as a country living on borrowed money, unable in spite of the record efforts of its exporters to pay its own way in the world.

In spite of this newfound notoriety, the art world had already turned its attention from the now passé abstract expressionists to the " next big thing ", Pop Art, particularly the work of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist.

Venus finished 2009 ranked world number 6 in singles ( with a winning percentage of 70 percent ) and world number 3 in doubles with Serena, in spite of playing only 6 events together in 2009.

After ten years in the political wilderness, he returned to government ; yet, in spite of his knowledge and experience of the world, he was unable to assert himself fully as foreign secretary until the last weeks of Lloyd George's premiership.

In 1915 – 16 Wilhelm Schmidt, then the leader of the Vienna School of Ethnology, viewed totemism strictly according to the then-popular schemes of culture circles or kulturkreis ( today long abandoned ); because totemism was disseminated throughout the world, he thought of it as a single cultural complex in spite of local differences.

In spite of the boycott, Pemex developed into one of the largest oil companies in the world and helped Mexico become the fifth-largest oil exporter in the world.

Raven and Dreamer had a multi-year ongoing feud with a great deal of matches ; Dreamer got over as an underdog face showing resilience and tenacity in the spite of Raven coming out victorious every single time and also, he defeated Tommy Dreamer to retain the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in Tokyo Japan on August 13th 1996 while he was the world champion.

The film was released in 1985 and, in spite of earlier promises, didn't include mention of Karski's role in informing the world about the Holocaust.

The Dunkerque class battleships, designed specially to fight the German so-called pocket battleships, were, in spite of their relatively small size, very well-balanced designs and precursors of a new fast battleship generation in the world.

One of the chief obstacles that all mechanistic theories have faced is providing a mechanistic explanation of the human mind ; Descartes, for one, endorsed dualism in spite of endorsing a completely mechanistic conception of the material world because he argued that mechanism and the notion of a mind were logically incompatible.

In spite of this, Young Peter carries a cure for OCD to the world of Path.

From this time on, in spite of unimportant movements under Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, and Severus, the Jews, reduced in numbers, destitute, and crushed, lost their preponderance in the Jewish world.

In spite of the loss, the unification of the socialist parties had a new leader, and Chile was one of the few countries of the world in which a Marxist had clear possibilities to win the presidency of the Republic through democratic elections.

In spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the modern world, famine still strikes many parts of the world, mostly in the developing nations.