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He was reelected to the assembly in 1951 despite the hostility of some conservative emirs of the generally Muslim north.
And Wal-Mart has been able to open 353 retail stores in China, despite the hostility of many small, local retailers.
The Later Calukyas, however, by and large retained control over the western Deccan despite the hostility of the Colas and of their own feudatories.
Despite the hostility of the Blair administration, Meacher's environmental stint brought him the reputation of being able to stay on top of a complex brief, and he did move slightly towards the centre ground.
"Despite the hostility of the party apparatus to sociology and to public opinion polls, the highest level of the hierarchy looked rather benignly on these developments," Professor Shlapentokh said in an interview.
Herzl's greatest achievement, and that of his Zionist heirs, is that they brought into existence a country that despite the hostility of neighbors seeking its destruction, has allowed its citizens to criticize it freely.
But, despite later legislation, the hostility of the English courts to executory arbitrations resumed somewhat after Scott v. Avery, and seems never to have been entirely dissipated.
Despite the hostility to Glazer's purchase of United, his ownership coincided with the most successful era of the club's history.
By the 1930s, Eatonville emerged as a model of black self-sufficiency, despite its continuing struggles with poverty, illiteracy and the hostility of the segregated world around it.
Despite the violent hostility of the landowners, the government upheld the Mesta privileges, since the guild paid generously for them and was supported by the merchants who exported the raw wool to the cloth industry of Flanders.
This was despite the virtual hostility of the earl of Menteith and what Cynthia Neville has noted as the lack of interest by the earls of Strathearn, evidenced by their reluctance to bestow patronage on the bishopric.
