Despite the harsh discipline, gladiators represented a substantial investment for their lanista and were otherwise well cared for.

Despite this black mark, Tycho also began corresponding with Kepler, starting with a harsh but legitimate critique of Kepler's system ; among a host of objections, Tycho took issue with the use of inaccurate numerical data taken from Copernicus.

Despite affordable and often free land, many arriving newcomers, mostly from Britain and Ireland, found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult, and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south.

Despite its harsh provisions, a RICO-related charge is considered easy to prove in court, as it focuses on patterns of behavior as opposed to criminal acts.

Despite such harsh conditions, this anoxic and sulphidic environment is teeming with microbial life, both chemosynthetic prokaryotes that are primary producers, and a broad diversity of eukaryotic heterotrophs at the next trophic level.

Despite her harsh treatment, O grants permission beforehand for everything that occurs, and her permission is consistently sought.

" Despite his harsh treatment of the warring tribes, Sherman spoke out against the unfair way speculators and government agents treated the natives within the reservations.

Despite harsh conditions, the region has supported large populations as far back as 8, 000 BCE.

Despite a harsh clampdown against conspiring Roman Catholics, Mary ( in domestic exile and Elizabeth's prisoner for nearly twenty years ), inspires an earnest attempt to overthrow Elizabeth.

Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.

Despite his harsh business ethics, Scrooge is caring to his family.

A false-color satellite image of Lava Beds National Monument and the surrounding area (: Image: LavaBedsNatlMnmt L7 14jun01. jpg | more information ). Despite harsh, semi-arid conditions, native wildlife has adapted to the environmental constraints present in the region.

Despite its reputation as a pioneering institution for the new, enlightened view of imprisonment, Port Arthur was still in reality as harsh and brutal as other penal settlements.

“ Despite six hundred years of decrees, canons, and increasingly harsh penalties, the Latin clergy still did, more or less illegally, what their Greek counterparts were encouraged to do by law — they lived with their wives and raised families.

Despite its harsh desert environment, Big Bend has an amazing variety and number of plant and animal species.

Despite his personal issues with Fuller, the typically harsh literary critic Edgar Allan Poe wrote of the work as " a book which few women in the country could have written, and no woman in the country would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller ", noting its " independence " and " unmitigated radicalism ".

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) the country's association with Joseph Stalin, Soviet rule in Georgia was particularly harsh during the 1950s and sought to restrict Georgian cultural expression.

Despite the harsh economic conditions, a number of companies continued to build larger and faster ships.

Despite their somewhat high profile, the groups ' habit of provoking the audience, obscene material and harsh erotics guaranteed they would never gain commercial acceptance.

Despite the harsh introduction, Finney pulled Reynolds aside after the performance and recommended that he study composition over the summer.

Despite harsh conditions and infrastructural losses, life returned to Hajnówka quite soon.

Despite harsh criticism by gaming enthusiasts, the GeForce4 MX was a market success.

Despite this harsh news, Charles still coached the U. S. to a fourth place finish in the games.

Despite the rocky soil, shortage of potable water, harsh winters, and constant threat of attack, this group managed to succeed.

Despite being at one time a defender of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam later abandoned this view in favor of a position he termed " internal realism ".

Despite the majority opinion that Luke was a gentile writing to other gentiles, a few authors have challenged this view.

Despite not representing characters and licensed properties as intended, companies often view these works as a free form of license recognition and advertising through dedicated fandom.

Despite the modern view that longbows had trouble penetrating high-quality plate armour after about 1350, as late as 1415 the hail of arrows created by massed ranks of thousands of longbowmen helped to win the battle against plate-armoured French knights at Agincourt.

Another view is that Robin Hood's origins must be sought in folklore or mythology ; Despite the frequent Christian references in the early ballads, Robin Hood has been claimed for the pagan witch-cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe.

" Despite his later influence, Karl Marx did not view his work as an ethical or ideological response to nineteenth-century capitalism ( as most later commentators have ).

Despite the ongoing merger, it was a commonly-held view that the NFL was a far superior league.

Despite such ideas, which represented the point of view of a faction of the government, the Sandinista government remained officially committed to a mixed economy.

Despite holding for many years a view widely held to be heretical, John XXII is not considered a heretic because in his day the doctrine he had contradicted had not been formally defined by the Church, a lacuna that his successor Benedict XII immediately filled by the encyclical Benedictus Deus, which formally defined this doctrine as part of Church teaching.

Despite thirty years of freedom of expression, the world view of the fallero can still be socially conservative, is often sexist and may involve some of the amoralism of Valencian politics.

Despite these and a number of other recent improvements the ground remains one of the poorest in League Two and talks are still ongoing with a view to a permanent move to a new stadium located in Church, a small town bordering Accrington.

Despite evidence to the contrary, his view held sway with most chemists, and it became commonly accepted wisdom that creosote, carbolic acid, and phenylhydrate were identical substances, with different degrees of purity.

VAZ 21099 4-dr saloon, rear view Despite NAMI ( National Automobile Institute ) having allowed the involvement of Porsche engineers in the engine development, the Samara never achieved the same success as the Riva, even though it did prove to be a robust car with a modern style and an initially competitive price.

Despite the bleak view in the strip, McCay's work was so popular that he was hired by William Randolph Hearst in 1911 with a star's salary.

Despite these hints of uneven distribution, classical rabbinical literature expresses the view that manna fell in very large quantities each day.

Despite this he was able to view France's foreign affairs with a more abstract nature, taking in the wider European context.

Despite the importance of antiquarian writing in the literature of ancient Rome, some scholars view antiquarianism as emerging only in the Middle Ages ( see History of archaeology ).

Despite Berg's approach, most scholars do not accept this view, as the historical record corresponds with Chinese materials that could not have had similar intention.

Despite his desire to emancipate his fellow countrymen, Tone had very little respect for the Catholic faith ( a view shared by many subsequent Irish republicans ).

Despite Clamence's view of himself as a selfless advocate for the weak and unfortunate, he simply ignores the incident and continues on his way.

Despite the view that magic is less than rational and entails an inferior concept of causality, in The Savage Mind ( 1966 ), Claude Lévi-Strauss suggested that magical procedures are relatively effective in exerting control over the environment.

Despite personal issues with Castlereagh, he continued many of his foreign policies, such as the view that the powers of Europe ( Russia, France, etc.

Despite his belief that the Bible was fallible, Martineau continued to hold the view, which was not so much characteristic of the man as of the school in which he had been trained, that " in no intelligible sense can any one who denies the supernatural origin of the religion of Christ be termed a Christian ," which term, he explained, was used not as " a name of praise ," but simply as " a designation of belief.

Despite being an extremely primitive lifeform, Brian has a highly philosophical view on life.

Despite the limited computer graphics | graphics capabilities of the Apple II family | Apple II, the player's view of the SunDog warping to a new system was impressive for the era in which it was released.