Colonel" won't make you famous, but it is certainly an accomplishment of which to be proud, especially if you've achieved it despite being a bit of a scatterbrain.
After a complete makeover by Texas Pacific a few years back, the company is trading below its IPO price of three years ago, despite having achieved almost all the goals it announced at the time.
It is a bit demoralising that, despite having achieved all of that to somehow or other have this notion that, well, this could all be done rather better".
Despite having achieved that, Glover has attracted criticism from fans after the team's poor performances on the pitch.
But one wonders how surprised she might have been to discover that 95 years later, despite having achieved critical mass in parliament, women in Westminster are still fighting on so many fronts to be treated as equals.
Despite having achieved something in the London Eye that is commercially successful, critically acclaimed, publicly loved and globally famous, they don't stride presidentially around, getting showered with good mornings.
Local elections have demonstrated that despite having achieved a remarkable degree of power centralisation, Erdoğan and the AKP remain vulnerable to economic and political undercurrents, just as should be the case in a normal democracy.
In fact, despite having achieved a tactical victory, the Confederates did not pursue their advantage but instead withdrew from Missouri, traveling to Arkansas, where their defeat at Pea Ridge the next year ensured that Missouri remained in the Union.
In a statement after the sale, Guillaume Cerutti, the president of Sotheby's France, said, "Despite having achieved less than expected, these results are good considering the context in which the sale unfolded".
