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The view was reinforced by postmodern admirers in the 80's and 90's who embraced Mr. Richter, despite his rejection of them, for precisely those qualities.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Friday that he believed a property tax abatement for hundreds of thousands of condominium and co-op owners in New York City would be preserved, despite his rejection of a renewal of the abatement as part of a package of housing legislation on the final day of the legislative session last week.

Despite his rejection of psychology, Lynch does try to read the minds of large oil companies.

Instead, despite his rejection of Aristotelian metaphysics, Comte invokes a form of human flourishing akin to Aristotle's in the Nicomachean Ethics (1097b22 1098a17).

And despite his rejection of the theory, it happened too often as Arsenal won with a first-half goal from Santi Cazorla and a second from Tomas Rosicky, who was the beneficiary of Danny Rose's dawdling on the halfway line.

Now despite his rejection of symbolic logic as an unfruitful and unnecessary novelty, Lotze nonetheless held fast to the existence of "necessary laws of thought" as the strongest bulwark against relativistic skepticism.

For a period in his youth Eisler was a prized student of Schoenberg, and despite his eventual rejection of his teacher's 12-tone system, Eisler's immersion in the aesthetic had lingering effects.

His undated message comes after al-Qaida's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged jihadis in Syria to unite, despite his continued rejection of Islamic State and its proclaimed caliphate.

Harry D. Tunnell IV, who for a while was allowed to remain in command of a Stryker brigade in southern Afghanistan despite his ostentatious rejection of standard counterinsurgency doctrine, which emphasizes winning the trust of the population, in favor of a more brutal, and less effective, search-and-destroy "antiguerrilla" approach.

The cops took Teller to a detox center to sober up ― despite his initial rejection of the offer.

I wrote back to him, despite his devastating rejection of me 28 years earlier, after one kiss that clearly meant more to me than it did to him: "And you assume I'd want to be with you if I was?" Needless to say, I took great pleasure in being given the opportunity to respond.