In spite of trying to divide and rule the pro-Ethiopian Afars and the pro-Somali Issas, an independence movement, of which Gouled was among the leaders, succeeded in 1977, when he became first president.
In Devil May Cry 3, I was actually unable, in spite of trying for over an hour, to make it through the very first fight in the game on its easiest setting.
Finlay's recreations include "arguing about God" and "shouting at the slugs", Goodwin's "collecting books with Daisy in the title", and Billingham plumps for "embarrassing my children, supporting Wolverhampton Wanderers in spite of everything, trying to smuggle examples of Victorian taxidermy into the house".
In spite of that, trying to reproduce the Cantor set on the nanometer length scale seems of a certain interest.
In spite of having tried to avoid studying history in my graduate studies, I felt particularly close to historians in building a bridge from musicology thanks to my undergraduate background oriented towards music history and analysis.
Even after the Arab occupation of Persia and forcible conversion of the masses to Islam, the Iranian people refused to give up their ancient Zoroastrian festivals and their Persian language in spite of the Mullahs trying to discourage them.
CPSS did not return any result in spite of several tries.
According to a report by Bloomberg, this approach to population control has so far failed to achieve its intended outcomes, in spite of many years of trying.
Ms. O'Donnell, in spite of approving the switch, tried to fire the new editor, Susan Toepfer, three days later.
Mr. Williams, Mr. Bruno said, lost control of the bus after being cut off by a tractor-trailer — not because he was tired — and, in spite of his own injuries, tried to help rescue passengers from the wreckage.
She has heard that it was an electrical fire; she knows for sure only that it started somewhere on a floor below and destroyed everything in the Bronx apartment where Ms. Rochez, a single mother, had been living with Zion, 8, Hilton, 5, and Brian, 3. In spite of losing everything, she tries to focus on the fact that she and her children survived.
