But despite that, and despite subsequent debt, neglect, quarrelling and melancholy madness (there was something in the family "not quite consistent with sanity", wrote one observer), the Sackvilles went on acquiring history.
Despite their neglect, the buildings became celebrated.
It has thrived despite benign neglect through drought and deluge for a decade.
Despite readers' neglect, he continues to write, taking art as seriously as it deserves to be taken.
Despite its neglect, Mr. Bruic saw in the space the type of residence-cum-studio he always imagined he would one day call home.
Despite this neglect, it was estimated that when the United Arab Emirates attained independence (1971), Khawr Fakkān was the busiest port in Al-Shāriqah Al-Shāriqah
Despite this neglect, the firm became one of the first state enterprises to extend its operations across the whole of the reunified country.
Despite the neglect, Over-the-Rhine has a local landmark designation and some 900 19th century buildings in the Greek Revival, Italianate and German Renaissance styles.
Despite its neglect, the piece turns out to have many good qualities, though its style – a mixture of French and Italian influences – is about as distant from mature Wagner as you can get.
Despite his neglect of church attendance, and frequent assertions that he didn't believe in God, he feared hellfire and damnation ("a very superstitious Catholic," observed Elspeth) and his lifelong engagement with the moral drama of Catholic theology, wrote Fraser, made him "a religious poet in a secular age".
