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 this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite the current crisis, the Grand Duchy still welcomes over 900, 000 visitors a year who spend an average of 2. 5 nights in hotels, hostels or on camping sites.

Despite accounting for 50-60 % of overall plantings in Bordeaux, the grape tends to account for an average of 25 % of the blends — especially in the Bordeaux wine regions of Graves and Médoc.

Despite public or media opinion, national studies have indicated that severe mental illness does not independently predict future violent behavior, on average, and is not a leading cause of violence in society.

Despite its modest length ( 74 km ), it is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge ( after the Volga and the Danube ).

Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth.

Despite the lack of competition, mobile market penetration equals more than 60 % is well above the African average.

Despite Miami's superb offense, punter Reggie Roby still made the pro bowl, averaging 44. 7 yards per punt with a net gain average of 38. 7.

Despite this, Britain has contributed the greatest number of migrants to this day, and Western Australia — particularly Perth — has the highest proportion of British-born of any state: 10. 6 % in 2006, compared to a national average of 5. 3 %.

Despite intervention, market pressures caused the yen to continue climbing in value, peaking temporarily at an average of ¥ 271 per US $ 1 in 1973 before the impact of the 1973 oil crisis was felt.

Despite its advantages, VBR has three main drawbacks: first, by only specifying quality, there is no guarantee about the final average bit-rate.

Despite their on-field success, the Pride suffered as a result of having one of the lowest average attendances and being the farthest team from the core of the league.

" Despite initial mixed critical reception, the film currently holds a 71 % " fresh " rating on the film aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 6 out of 10.

Despite a lopsided comparison in terms of the two teams ' win-loss records, three of the four Pacers losses were close, losing games 1 – 3 by an average of just 5 points.

Despite this, Columbus managed its best season record to date, staying above a. 500 game wins average until the very last game of the season and finishing fourth in the Central Division with 80 points.

Despite his occupation, Casey is an impatient man of only average intelligence.

Despite his misgivings about the Council, Johnson started out convening it fairly regularly, about every 2 weeks on average during his first 11 months in office.

Despite his waning powers, Bradman compiled 11 centuries on the tour, amassing 2, 428 runs ( average 89. 92 ).

Despite only receiving average reviews by critics, the movie became a box office success, earning more than 120 million US dollars domestically and US $ 157m worldwide.

Despite hospital photographs of the man's beating, Hobbs received no reprimand, and CBS Atlanta reports that no action has been taken to address Hobbs ' 58 incidents of use of force, " nearly 20 times more often than an average Clayton County police officer had in the same time period.

Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Despite high ticket prices, the exhibition lost money, with only one recorded sale.

Despite the Governor and Lieutenant Governor being elected on the same party ticket, very often there have been public rifts between the two ; for instance Gov.

Despite disharmony within the ticket, the worsening of the Great Depression under Republican President Herbert Hoover and Governor Sampson ensured a Democratic victory.

Despite the unified ticket and a poll predicting him winning, Wang lost to Su Tseng-chang.

Despite an early lead in the polls after the primaries, as well as fellow Democrat Mike Easley running for a second term as governor at the top of the state party ticket, Bowles was defeated in the 2004 race as well.

" Despite a local TV blackout and ticket prices starting at six dollars, neither game drew well ; only 8, 760 fans attended in Washington, D. C., and just 5, 331 attended in Los Angeles.

Despite the improved facilities and larger capacity ( and resultant larger ticket revenues ), this move was unpopular with many of the club's fans.

Despite McGarry's death, the Santos-McGarry ticket narrowly wins the election over the Vinick-Sullivan ticket by a 30, 000 vote margin in Nevada and McGarry posthumously becomes the Vice President-Elect after Santos ' victory.

Despite Tennessee's Senator Al Gore being elected Vice President as Bill Clinton's running mate, the Clinton-Gore Democratic ticket won the 3rd District by only 39 votes out of 225, 000 cast, one of their worst performances in the state.

Despite being in the heart of Tottenham and being at one time a busy station, Bruce Grove ticket office is rarely open.

Despite all of the challenges surrounding the campaign, the Brown-Herbert ticket went on to earn more votes than any Socialist Party presidential ticket since 1952.

Despite being one of the lower budget teams in the EIHL, the Bison have maintained their fan base and greatly enhanced local sponsorships and doubled their season ticket sales.

Despite his personal disdain for political half-measures, Ruthenberg was a frequent candidate on the ticket of the Socialist Party.

Despite the evidence being circumstantial, Danny serves seventeen months of a ten-year prison sentence before he's released with a one-way ticket to Laredo.

Despite their eventual defeat in the 2010 Election, they were the first " bipartisan " gubernatorial ticket in Utah history.

Despite his conservative affiliation, Solano Lima was nominated as the leftist Cámpora's running-mate, and the ticket sailed to victory on March 11.

Despite not being part of the Greek system, he nearly won the seat — attracting more votes than the top of his ticket.

However, it was revealed through Ståhl's message logs that Fnatic had paid him not to use SK's ticket to Dallas Despite the closure of SK's investment into the Action RTS scene with the departure of its Defense of the Ancients team in 2009, SK Gaming took in a squad for the relatively unknown title Avalon Heroes in 2010, as well as an American Heroes of Newerth squad and a European League of Legends squad.

Despite generally positive reviews from New York critics, Brighton Beach Memoirs closed on November 1, 2009 after 9 performances and 25 previews due to weak ticket sales.

Despite the support of the outgoing President Moi, the KANU political machine and the provincial administration, the Kenyatta / Mudavadi ticket was roundly beaten and Mudavadi lost his Sabatia parliamentary seat.