U.S. coal is cheap, despite high wages, because of widespread mechanization of mines, wide coal seams, attactive rates on ocean freight.

The doors to CUNY were opened wide to all those demanding entrance, assuring all high school graduates, despite possible inadequacies of preparation, entrance to the University.

The one suggested by EPR is that quantum mechanics, despite its success in a wide variety of experimental scenarios, is actually an incomplete theory.

The label enjoyed further good publicity when Belle & Sebastian won Best Newcomer in the 1999 Brit Awards, despite Steps being the wide favourite for the award.

Introduced in 1979 with HMOS technology as the first member of the successful 32-bit m68k family of microprocessors, it is generally software forward compatible with the rest of the line despite being limited to a 16-bit wide external bus.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

Mani combines Zoroastrian dualism with Christian theology and his disciples gain wide support for Manichaeism despite opposition from Byzantine and Roman Emperors.

The text of the new Constitution was put to a nationwide referendum in August 1992 and approved by a wide margin, despite efforts by federalists to disrupt balloting in several coastal areas.

Mozambique ’ s diverse soils and climatic conditions, influenced by latitude, variations in altitude, topography and the proximity to the coast, offer a wide range of production opportunities ; agricultural potential is high despite frequent droughts and floods.

It should be noted that although general guidelines are given below almost all elements of SCD have exceptions through the playfulness of the dance writers to the wide variety of influences and interpretations over the years ; some exceptions include the Eightsome Reel ( has two parts repeated as ABBBBBBBBA and is thus considerably longer than most other dances ), Cooper's Jig ( ten bar phrases-with music to match ), The Willowtree ( often only repeated four times despite having eight couples because the dance is mirrored from both ends of the set ).

Increasing his mystique, not a single word was ever published from Thrawn's point of view, despite Zahn's wide variety of narrators ( Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Karrde, Mara Jade, and even minor characters like General Covell and Niles Ferrier ); instead, he is only observed by other characters, occasionally New Republic personnel but mostly his loyal second-in-command Captain Gilad Pellaeon.

) His performance won him wide acclaim, and despite Zanuck's original objection, Webb was signed to a long-term contract with Fox.

Some Allied units, particularly the 3rd U. S. Infantry Division " Rock of the Marne ", held fast or even counterattacked, but by the evening, the Germans had captured a bridgehead either side of Dormans deep and wide, despite the intervention of 225 French bombers, which dropped of bombs on the makeshift bridges.

GameSpot declared that Pool of Radiance, with its detailed art, wide variety of quests and treasure, and tactical combat system, and despite the availability of only four character classes and the low character level cap, " ultimately succeeded in its goal of bringing a standardized form of AD & D to the home computer, and laid the foundation for other future gold box AD & D role-playing games ".

For example, according to GM, 70 % of the U. S. population lives near a hydrogen-generating facility but has little access to hydrogen, despite its wide availability for commercial use.

" Despite the wide variety of philosophical thought, despite all the contradictions and mutually exclusive claims to truth, there is in all philosophy a One, which no man possesses but about which all serious efforts have at all times gravitated: the one eternal philosophy, the philosophia perennis.

These 2D techniques are still in wide use despite the advance of 3D tomography due to the low cost, high resolution, and depending on application, lower radiation dosages.

During the mid-and late-1970s, and despite an otherwise sluggish economy, Hardee's saw rapid chain growth and high profits on the strength of its two key sandwiches: the " Big Twin " ( a two-patty burger using a distinctive cheese and sauce combination ) and the " Big Deluxe " ( a single, wide quarter-pound burger with a unique, tangy mayonnaise ).

This includes the metro Atlanta region, where it failed by a wide margin of 37 % to 63 % overall, and failed in each of the ten counties, despite an advertising campaign that cost eight million dollars, funded mostly by local businesses, and controversially by some community improvement districts.

However, despite having a wide range of infrastructure, Nufărul was, like Rogerius, built-up mainly during Romania's Communist period, which ended in 1989.

Nevertheless, in early 1903, the United States and Colombia signed a treaty which, despite Colombia's previous objections, gave the United States a wide zone in which it could deploy troops with Colombian consent.

His subsequent reelection occurred by a wide margin despite the ability of the Pan-Blue Coalition to present a united candidate.

However, many of their games, despite wide critical acclaim, sold poorly in comparison to contemporary rivals.

The term is not in wide use in Australia and Oceania despite the popularity of the hatchback in this region.

Wright argued that it does not require a trained anthropologist to classify an array of Englishmen, West Africans, and Chinese with 100 % accuracy by features, skin color, and type of hair despite so much variability within each of these groups that every individual can easily be distinguished from every other.

It is also stated that " a wealth of sweet-smelling herbs and shrubs " and a vast array of tree species grew in Ithilien, some of them having been planted by men in days of peace, and that despite desolation the land " kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness ".

It is also stated that " a wealth of sweet-smelling herbs and shrubs " and a vast array of tree species grew in Ithilien, some of them having been planted by men in days of peace, and that despite desolation the land " kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness ".

Janeway opts to respect the Caretaker's wishes and orders the destruction of the array despite it being their only chance at returning home.

The first group game was against Uruguay and despite an array of attacking talent, including Jimmy Greaves and Roger Hunt, England were held to a 0 – 0 draw.

This seeming embrace of Post Modernism meant that, despite the office's international array of powerful urban assemblages that reconceptualized architectural forms and spaces, this work went rapidly out-of-fashion with the architectural world's revival of modernism.

Drašković's SPO participated on its own at the September 1997 election, boycotted by his former partners despite an array of local electronic media outlets being in opposition hands.

Conservative columnist John Leo argues that despite Frank's belief that conservative politics is just a game of " bait-and-switch ", rural conservative voters have made their voices heard on a vast array of social issues.

PSPCasting has gained popularity in the blogging community despite the difficulties to distribute pspcasts, and various P2P networks are offering a wide array of pspcasts.

Fortunately, supported by an array of producers both grizzly and green, her invaluable unpredictability is alternately harnessed and given new life on this album, despite its uneven and transitional nature.

On 18 April, Fox spoke in the Commons – together with William Wilberforce, Pitt and Burke – in favour of a measure to abolish the slave trade, but – despite their combined rhetorical talents – the vote went against them by a majority of 75.

The value that machine tools added to these human talents is in the areas of rigidity ( constraining the toolpath despite thousands of newtons ( pounds ) of force fighting against the constraint ), accuracy and precision, efficiency, and productivity.

Mme Necker, despite her talents, her beauty and her fondness for philosophic society, was strictly decorous, somewhat reserved, and wanted to bring up her daughter with the discipline of her own childhood.

In the evaluation of Korean War historian Roy Edger Appleman, Peng's performances in the war were unremarkable in terms of military talents despite his aggressiveness and leadership skills.

At the 1907 Targa Florio, for instance, despite the talents of Victor Héméry and Hubert Le Blon ( late of the Darracq and Serpollet teams, respectively ), aided by Daimler works test driver George Ison, the Societa Officine de Luca Daimler ( Italian licence manufacturers ) entries finished thirteenth, twentieth, and twenty-sixth.

The collapse of Death Row Records meant its title as a powerful hip-hop label was subsequently revoked despite attempts from the last remaining founder and CEO at the time, Suge Knight, that included signing new talents and releasing many compilations of previously unreleased content recorded by ex-Death Row artists.

Neither the album nor singles charted, despite featuring the talents of Brian May from Queen and Nigel Kennedy on violin.

In fact, Mycroft's own lack of practicality is a severe handicap despite his inductive talents: in " The Greek Interpreter ", his blundering approach to the case nearly costs the client his life.

He therefore had little hope of Cabinet office in the governments of Campbell-Bannerman or Asquith, despite his obvious talents.

Among these foreign talents, Wei Yang ( later renamed to Shang Yang ), a scholar from the Legalist School, successfully conducted a series of reforms in Qin with the support of Duke Xiao, despite facing strong opposition from several Qin politicians.

When Nanako starts her new school year at the all-girl Seiran School, she is unexpectedly inducted into the school's Sorority despite having none of the looks, talents, or background needed to become a member.

The French Germanic scholar Edmond Vermeil considered Chamberlain's ideas " essentially shoddy ," but the anti-Nazi German author Konrad Heiden, despite objections to Chamberlain's racial ideas, described him as " one of the most astonishing talents in the history of the German mind, a mine of knowledge and profound ideas.

Roger Ebert in his video review of the film on At the Movies noted that despite the highly energetic approach of the two lead actors and the visual style of the film, their acting talents were mostly " new wine in old bottles ".

Angus Bethune ( Charlie Talbert ) is a teenage boy living in Minnesota, who, despite his talents as a football player and in science class, holds deep insecurities about himself.

However, if the woman offers to be compensated slightly less than the man despite having equal talents, the employer will have to pay for the prejudice by still hiring the man.

) She is a devoted homemaker, wife and mother, and an excellent cook, but she has other talents as well: ten years prior to the events in the series, she won the village's airplane race, and proceeded to win a second time in the episode " Mommy Can Fly " ( despite not being an official entrant in the race and only taking the cockpit in order to rescue other contestants who were stranded following a crash ).

He was a man of considerable literary interests and talents and despite his administrative duties, he managed to write plays i. e. Ratnavali, Priyadarshika and Nagananda, of which, the first two are comedies in the classical style and the third has a serious religious theme.

Their semi-nomadic lifestyle has persisted largely unchanged for thousands of years, despite the fact that during colonialism, the Baka's prowess at elephant hunting prompted ivory-hungry German and French overlords to force them to settle in roadside villages where their talents could be more easily exploited.

In the following years, the Tyrrell team slipped down the rankings to mid-field, despite having employed natural talents such as Scheckter, Depailler, and Ronnie Peterson, as well as lesser lights like Jean-Pierre Jabouille, in a third 007 in 1975.

She clearly knows Torg and Riff and, despite her talents as an assassin, appears to view them as a potential threat, or at least challenge.

However, despite his apparent showiness, he is perennially modest about such useful talents, which often leads people to underestimate him.