Despite a reported spread of Islam among Uzbekistan's younger population, the survey suggested that Islamic belief is still weakest among the younger generations.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote.

Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group.

Despite its brevity, the First Samnite War results in the major acquisition by Rome of the rich land of Campania with its capital of Capua.

Despite the best intentions of landowners such as the Earls of Leicester and Portland to develop the land on the grand scale of neighbouring Bloomsbury, Marylebone and Mayfair, Soho never became a fashionable area for the rich.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

Despite repeated citations for recusancy and swingeing fines, he died a rich man, having rooms at the time of his death at the London home of the Earl of Worcester.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Despite the population loss during the war, abandoned settlements were soon repopulated, and the area recovered as people were again drawn to the rich Camden County land.

Despite this, he refused all invitations to travel internationally to promote his work, writing to Francis Darby: " I would rather be a poor man England than a rich man abroad.

Despite the area's rich ore deposits, investment in mining in the Neihart region remained low because it was too expensive to get ore out.

Despite interest in home automation, by the end of the 1990s there was not a widespread uptake-with such systems still considered the domain of hobbyists or the rich.

Despite this, the horn section contributes greatly to the rich mellow sound of a brass band.

Despite Lamb's bouts of melancholia and alcoholism, both he and his sister enjoyed an active and rich social life.

Despite its rich literature, beginning anonymously in the 16th century and with well-known authors since 1756 ( see the paragraph Literature ), the use of Walloon has decreased markedly since France's annexation of Wallonia in 1795.

Despite declining newspaper circulations in France, and elsewhere, Canard is rich and growing.

Despite being a royal abbey, Netley was never rich, produced no influential scholars nor churchmen, and its nearly 300-year history was quiet.

Despite this, he lived relatively simply in an age when the rich were indulging in more and more luxury.

Despite the rich soil and tropical climate, there is only a tiny amount of agricultural production.

Despite their fame, they often found themselves treated as hired menials ; if a rich client was too demanding, Vernon would quote a fee of a thousand dollars an hour for lessons and often get it.

Despite Isaacs ' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, " calm, sedate and suburban " life, which he prefers to the " hideously compromised lives " of the more rich and famous: " I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives.

Despite this, the village was not overly rich, being largely based on a farming community.

Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the Central Valley, inhabitants of the valley who were unfamiliar with its natural rainfall patterns and started to practice intense irrigated agriculture on the arid land soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.

Despite its small size, Luxembourg has a varied topography, with two main features to its landscape.

Despite its name, its acquisitions were varied for the first sixty years, but from 1811 its intake was confined to works of a scientific nature.

Despite the initial institutional design of communism implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Eastern Bloc, subsequent development varied across countries.

Despite their varied answers, the Milesian school was searching for a natural substance that would remain unchanged despite appearing in different forms, and thus represents one of the first scientific attempts to answer the question that would lead to the development of modern atomic theory ; " the Milesians ," says Burnet, " asked for the φύσις of all things.

Despite the physical consistency, the estimated elevation of Mount Hood has varied substantially over the years.

Despite Bartók calling the third section a " recapitulation " it is not a straight repetition of the music from the prima parte, being somewhat varied and simplified.

Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that " the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed ; it was a moral imperative.

Despite variation in tree height and DBH, canopy cover varied little, ranging from 88 % to 95 % on small nest plots in grand fir forests of eastern Washington.

Despite the magnitude of the basin, the hydrology of the streams within it is quite varied.

Despite her varied accomplishments, the political legacy Söder is most known for among Swedes may be the 1980 reform that shut the stores of Systembolaget, the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly, on Saturdays.

Despite a leaning toward anthropological and cultural collections, the museum is also home to a newly opened ( July 2006 ) aquarium and one of the most varied collections of taxidermy in the northern hemisphere.

Despite a strong identification with and loyalty to Islam, religious practices varied among segments of Jordan's population.

Despite resistance from network executives to the varied hosting line-up, the ratings remained strong.

Despite the refining process, white glazes invariably vary as a result of the properties of the clay itself ; firing methods were not uniform, temperatures varied and glazes on pieces vary from pure white, in an almost snowy thickness, through milky white that shows the clay beneath deliberately in washed glaze, to light blue and light yellow patinas.

Despite a fairly varied early career, Thomas is now almost exclusively remembered as the director of 30 Carry On films, the innuendo-laden and financially successful British comedy series, produced by Peter Rogers, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958.

Despite their embrace of the principle of rectilinear inertia and the recognition of the kinematical relativity of apparent motion ( which underlies whether the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system is correct ), natural philosophers of the seventeenth century continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body.

Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like natural persons (" people ").

Despite their natural beauty, the secluded valleys along the Na Pali Coast in Hawaii are heavily modified by introduced invasive species such as She-oak.

Despite its short lifetime, some radon gas from natural sources can accumulate to far higher than normal concentrations in buildings, especially in confined areas such as attics and basements.

Despite this, Huxley strongly supported Darwin on evolution ; though he called for experiments to show whether natural selection could form new species, and questioned if Darwin's gradualism was sufficient without sudden leaps to cause speciation.

Despite the initial mass of < sup > 1 </ sup > H being used as the natural unit for atomic weight, it was suggested by Wilhelm Ostwald that atomic weights would be best expressed in terms in units of 1 / 16 weight of oxygen.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Despite a wealth of abundant and diverse natural resources, Madagascar is one of the world ’ s poorest countries.

Despite technological advances, such as improved varieties, genetically modified organisms, and irrigation systems, weather is still a key factor in agricultural productivity, as well as soil properties and natural communities.

Despite these setbacks, in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley.

Despite the presence of some natural fluorocarbons such as tetrafluoromethane, which has been reported in rocks, man-made fluorocarbons are potent greenhouse gases.

Despite its abundance of wilderness, recreational opportunities, hunting and fishing resources, and resplendent natural beauty, tourism is not a major sector of the local economy — largely due to the city's remote location.

Despite occasional droughts throughout central Indiana, Fortville has a steady and reliable supply of water because it is situated over a natural aquifer.

Despite the many setbacks, both economic and natural, the town has persevered.

Despite recent development, Chase Creek Woods is one of the county ’ s outstanding natural areas.

Despite this natural separation, the town remained as one for over 170 years.

Despite this, the Huron on the whole were healthy ; the Jesuits wrote that the Huron effectively employed natural remedies, and were " more healthy than we.

For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.

Despite this, SRI scientists and remote viewers have claimed that a number of " natural " psychics were crucial in a number of intelligence operations.

Despite the development of cognitive instruments for the comprehension of future, the stochastic nature of many natural and social processes has made precise forecasting of the future elusive.

Despite this, his time as Premier saw the eventual elimination of the provincial deficit, substantial progress in negotiating the transfer of natural resource rights from the federal government, and the creation of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

Despite no longer encountering natural predator, when experimentally exposed to images and stimuli relating to these big cats, the deer seemed to instinctively react with a cautious predator response typical of wild deer.