Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.

Despite the decline of the British Empire, the Army was still deployed around the world, fighting wars in Aden, Indonesia, Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite the decline in Muslim-controlled kingdoms, it is important to note the lasting effects exerted on the peninsula by Muslims in technology, culture, and society.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

Despite its decline in facial popularity, realists continue to influence a wide spectrum of jurisprudential schools today, including critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, sociology of law and law and economics.

Despite the clear collapse of their power, and the decline of their kingdom around them, nobles continued to play kingmakers on a regular basis, with occasional intervention from Ptolemaic Egypt and other outside powers.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite the decline, wargaming continues to survive in different forms.

Despite the decline in Milan's manufacturing production, the city has found alternative and successful sources of revenue, including publishing, finance, banking, food processing, information technology, logistics, transport and tourism.

Despite these measures and others, the European bison population continued to decline over the following century, with only Białowieża and Northern Caucasus populations surviving into the 20th century.

Despite a decline in popularity following 1968, Daley was historically re-elected for the fifth time in 1971.

Despite the great reforms of Jean-Georges Noverre in the eighteenth century, ballet went into decline in France after 1830, though it was continued in Denmark, Italy, and Russia.

Despite the decline of European settlement and the loss of contact, Denmark – Norway continued to maintain its claim to lordship of Greenland: in the 1660s, a polar bear was added to the royal coat of arms.

Despite the decline of the Aztec empire, most of the Mesoamerican cultures were intact after the fall of Tenochtitlan.

Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly ' saucy ', postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism.

Despite being legally protected in many countries, the main causes of population decline remain anthropogenic and include hunting, habitat degradation, and fishing-related fatalities.

Despite this, the dugong population is thought to be shrinking, with a worldwide decline of 20 per cent in the last 90 years.

Despite the financial obstacles, the economy of Entre Ríos has grew to a size near that of Buenos Aires, with the decline of saladeros and the growth of wool production.

Despite its decline in domestic architecture, the term parlour continues to have an afterlife in many places as common nomenclature for certain categories of commercial enterprise.

Despite this tension and the city's decline in the face of barbarian invasions, Arles remained a great religious centre and host of church councils ( see Council of Arles ), the rival of Vienne, for hundreds of years.

Despite high wool prices in the 1950s, Willandra had begun its decline as a prominent pastoral property, which had been exacerbated by a prolonged drought after the Second World War.

Despite its status as a popular tourist destination for much of its preserved aspects of antebellum culture, Natchez has experienced a general decline in population since 1960.

Despite boasting several state championship football teams in the early 1970s, the Elmwood Park High School Crusaders ' football team went into a lengthy period of decline.

Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

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 this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.

Despite these efforts, Cairo's population has doubled since the 1960s, reaching close to seven million ( with an additional ten million in its urban area ).

Despite the political upheaval, the Egyptian population remained mainly Christian.

Despite recent gains, 40 % of the population lives below the poverty line, more than double the rate five years ago.

Despite covering only about 5. 5 % of the total area of Egypt, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta are the most important regions, being the country's only cultivable regions and supporting about 99 % of the population.

Despite recent improvements, with an exploding population Ethiopia remains one of the poorest nations in the world.

Despite low population density, taxpayers spend annually around 350 million euro in maintaining railway tracks even to many rural towns.

Despite Filipino and Indonedian foreign domestic helpers being the ethnic minorities, there are over 273, 609 foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, accounting for 4 % of the entire population.

Despite persistent diseases and famines, the population of the Indian subcontinent, which stood at about 125 million in 1750, had reached 389 million by 1941.

Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since the 1960s, the population is expected to grow to around 264 million by 2020 and 308 million by 2050, falling to sixth behind Pakistan and Brazil sometime before 2050.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite its small area and few resources, the absorption of the territory by Japan would to some extent alleviate Japan's problem of an increasing population but an ever decreasing amount of available land to house it.

Despite this, the majority of the population still live in traditional societies and practice subsistence-based agriculture.

Despite killing 34 people, Baader-Meinhof garnered a degree of support from the West German population.

Despite his humble background, Martok would become extremely popular among other warriors and the civilian population, though Martok had repeatedly stated he had no interest in politics.

Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly, about 1. 2 % per year.

Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War ( 66 – 73 CE ), which left the population and countryside in ruins, a series of laws passed by Roman Emperors provided the incentive for the second rebellion.

Despite the high population of gays and lesbians who called Greenwich Village home, very few places existed, other than bars, where they were able to congregate openly without being harassed or arrested.

Despite this, only 18 % of the population, of any religion, attend a place of worship once a week or more.

Despite the emergence of the Popular Front and the Supreme Soviet as a new lawmaking body, since 1989 the different segments of the indigenous Estonian population had been politically mobilized by different and competing actors.

Despite the inspired nonviolent resistance of the Czech and Slovak population, the reformers had little hope of holding out against Soviet pressure and ultimately were forced to accede to Soviet demands, signing the Moscow protocols.

Despite all of these incentives to economic growth and prosperity, the population of Florence at the dawn of the 17th century was a mere 75, 000, far smaller than the other capitals of Italy: Rome, Milan, Venice, Palermo and Naples.