Despite this tragedy the railway was a resounding success.

Despite the fears of those who knew him that this tragedy would send him back to drinking, he remained sober.

Despite this tragedy, Ponce has continued to be a hub of political activity on the island, being the founding site of several major political parties.

Despite this new tragedy she took up live performing again, even gracing the American Bandstand 30th Anniversary Special Episode and appearing in the town where she had been raped.

Despite a better-than-expected performance and a successful return flight to Canada in 1930, the R100 was broken up following the tragedy that befell its " sister " ship, the R101 ( which was designed and built by a team from the Government's Air Ministry ); the later crash of the Hindenburg led to the abandonment of airships as a mode of mass transport.

Despite the tragedy of his last years, Norquay was generally successful in developing Manitoba during his time in office.

Despite being nasty, Nanette does hold many talents, such as spending the entire episode " Don't Overdue It " balancing a book on her head ( and staining it with hair gel ) and writing a " three act Greek tragedy " in the episode " Ancient Greeks " and casting all of her classmates in " the lesser roles " such as Jimmy Jamal as Zeus, Johnny Abatti as an eagle, Gina Lash as Dionysus, Gordy Rhinehart as Hercules, and Angela with a multitude of roles because she was disgusted by Angela's acting performance.

Despite this tragedy, the 321st Bomb Wing, under the direction of its new commander, Colonel Robert W. Strong, Jr., won the top honors of the meet, including the coveted Fairchild and McCoy trophies, distinguishing the 321st as the top B-47 Wing in SAC.

Despite the lives lost, no one has been made accountable for the tragedy.

Despite the poem's name, the year had been one of great tragedy, including the Great Fire of London.

Despite its place among the higher echelons of Hardy's prose, the novel is ' something of an anomaly ', given its shallow resemblance to the tragedy of both its predecessor The Mayor of Casterbridge and its successor Tess of the D ' Urbervilles.

Despite the tragedy and public opinion starting to consider balloon-flight to be excessively dangerous, Newbery prepared a new balloon, “ El Patriota ”, and revitalised aerostatics with the help of socialist representative Alfredo Palacios.

Despite this tragedy, the team now performs with four Su-27Ps and two Su-27UBs.

Despite demands for the building's demolition, the damage from the tragedy of 1870 was repaired.

Despite light moments, the musical, like the play, is essentially a tragedy.

Despite scoring a winning goal in a Turin derby match against Juventus, his time at the Italian club was short and almost ended in tragedy.

Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.

Despite controversial press coverage of his personal life, Eriksson was consistently popular with the majority of fans.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Despite its external trade difficulties, Mongolia has continued to press ahead with reform.

Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band's first international press.

Despite some optimistic talk in the foreign press the impetus of these reforms has not been followed with, for example, a large-scale decollectivization such as occurred in China under Deng.

Despite the official government statement that allowed for freedom of the press, this was the first trial of whether or not Dubcek was serious about reforms.

Despite several break up stories in the press Williams and Field have been spotted together many times.

Despite pictures in the press, the case was subsequently dropped after the public prosecution service decided that Schmidt's actions had not been a threat to public health.

Despite the hostility of the mainstream official press and intimidation by Soviet Estonian authorities, dozens of local citizens ' committees were elected by popular initiative all over the country.

Despite Alexandra's pleas for privacy, Queen Victoria insisted on announcing a period of court mourning, which led to unsympathetic elements of the press to describe the birth as " a wretched abortion " and the funeral arrangements as " sickening mummery ".

Despite his campy television persona, Lynde never publicly came out as gay and the press generally refrained from commenting about it.

Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence in many jurisdictions, according to press reports collecting evidence of adultery or other " bad behaviour " by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake, as the stakes being fought over now are child custody, alimony, or marital property disputes.

Despite inflammatory press reports, the object had a " low probability " of impact, approximately one in a million.

Despite press reports of interest from Arsenal, and the offer of a player-manager role by Southend United, Robson left Fulham in 1967 and accepted a three-year deal with Canada's Vancouver Royals.

Despite this Harris managed to navigate the delicate situation which faced the left wing press and to keep the Pearson's functioning and solvent during the war years.

Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, for the performance.

Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States ( where it sold more than 150, 000 copies even before the band toured there ).

Despite being widely criticised in the UK press for being " self indulgent " and " not rock n ' roll ", the first album sold well in the UK and Europe, reaching number 22 on the UK charts.

Despite these distinctions, the press, media, businesses and, most importantly, the residents still choose to use " Brewster " as the name of the town in the southeastern corner of Putnam County.

Despite his best efforts, the tabloid press branded him a " loony " and a " do-gooder " for supporting the " evil " Hindley.

Despite repeated denials made in the popular press and on his website, Fenech pleaded guilty to his role in the theft of 3 gold watches worth a total of $ 327 from a Gold Coast, Queensland boutique store.

Despite the fact that he held no formal degree, employees, friends, and the press respected his scientific accomplishments by calling him Dr. Land.

Early August, 1970: Despite their losses, the Soviets and Egyptians manage to press the air defenses closer to the canal, shooting down a number of Israeli aircraft.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

Despite the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he became president.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite the apparent peeling on the LM's outer skin, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.