Despite leading figures leaving, Santos was headed for a sixth place finish until the Zveitão.

Despite such impressive figures, the Vietnamese were not as well equipped as the American G.I.s they replaced.

She describes her work as autobiographical, and despite figures like Male Figure, which has male genitalia, she says her sculptures are self portraits.

Yet despite poll figures showing Mr. Bloomberg running strong among city Republicans, some of his supporters express far more worry.

Mr. Spano wins his elections by comfortable margins despite figures that show more registered Democrats than Republicans in his district.

Despite such figures, the +2 oxidation state is rare, with +4 and +6 being more common.

Despite relatively high viewing figures for a midweek sitcom no further series were produced.

Despite such figures, the conventional wisdom among fashion editors and advertisers has long been that older readers don't care to see clothing modeled by women their own age.

The discontent over a lack of state attention to basic social needs, despite increasingly positive macro-economic figures, is being played out across Latin America.

In October 2006, the series was cancelled after nine years, despite viewing figures of well over 7 million.