Despite centuries-old cultural ties to the Arab World, the Chadian Government maintained few significant ties Arab states in North Africa or Southwest Asia in the 1980s.

Despite this road and those running through a few other passes, in general the escarpment impedes easy communication between the two countries.

Despite being extensively hunted, the coyote is one of the few medium-to large-sized animals that has enlarged its range since human encroachment began.

Despite criticism by sections of academia, Thomas ' work has been embraced by readers more so than many of his contemporaries, and is one of the few modern poets whose name is recognised by the general public.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

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

Despite these changes the highlands remained very poor and traditional, with few connections to the uplift of the Scottish Enlightenment and little role in the Industrial Revolution.

Despite the low interaction between discrete hubs, the disease can jump to and spread in a susceptible hub via a single or few interactions with an infected hub.

Despite the setbacks, Gandhi chose to continue studying in England and spent a few months at the Badminton School in Bristol before clearing the Oxford entrance exam in 1937.

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

Despite the plethora of news services, most news printed and broadcast throughout the world each day comes from only a few major agencies, the three largest of which are the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

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 the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite various characters having appeared within company publications for decades, few if any have aged to any appreciable degree.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licenses, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite being friends with Margaret, she has driven Margaret mad a few times, notably in " Only a Story ", when she moved in with the Meldrews after her flat had been flooded and drove Margaret to the point of distraction with her complaining and laziness.

Despite all the devastation, commercial life reappeared in the ruins around Potsdamer Platz within just a few weeks of war ’ s end.

Despite this, Congo's investment climate is not considered favorable, offering few meaningful incentives.

Despite Roland's efforts, their new " 303 clone " was an entirely new product that had almost nothing to do with the original TB-303, with the exception of a few bass samples and the familiar interface design.

Despite many successes, RISC has made few inroads into the desktop PC and commodity server markets, where Intel's x86 platform remains the dominant processor architecture.

Despite contact with western cultures, Sumba is one of the few places in the world in which megalithic burials, are used as a ' living tradition ' to inter prominent individuals when they die.

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 being rare and expensive, thulium has a few applications.

Despite the wishes of Jefferson and the President, Hallet went ahead anyway and modified Thornton's design for the East front and created a square central court that projected from the center, with flanking wings which would house the legislative bodies.

Despite its unique flavor square sausage is rarely seen outside Scotland and in fact is still fairly uncommon in the Highlands.

Despite this, much of Chartiers nearly twenty-five ( 25 ) square miles is still rural in nature.

Despite the river's length and relatively large drainage area ( 308 square miles ; 798 km² ), its source is only 26 miles ( 42 km ) from its mouth, and the river drops only 350 feet ( 107 m ) from source to sea.

Despite Faisal's dying request that the life of his assassin be spared, he was beheaded in the public square in Riyadh.

Despite this feature only having appeared on certain models for a limited time, the Allegro has always been associated with the criticism that it " had a square steering wheel ".

Despite his fortune, D. A. Thomas was quite content to retain the mansion at Llanwern, a large square house on a hilltop overlooking the village of Llanwern.

Despite the narrow lots, many row houses are relatively large, some being over 2, 000 square feet.

Spencer had also expended effort in beating Higgins 4 – 3 in the final of the Park Drive 2000 event the night before their final commenced Despite this, Spencer in his 2005 memoir made clear that Higgins played the better snooker and won the match ' fair and square '.

Despite being one of the poorest areas of the city, the district of 25, 2 square kilometers

Despite the change in terminology, however, the demographic definition of a population centre remains unchanged from that of an urban area: a population of at least 1, 000 people where the density is no fewer than 400 persons per square km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Despite these new designs, square keeps remained popular across much of England, and as late as the 1170s square Norman great keeps were being built at Newcastle.

Despite being one of Belgrade's minor municipalities in terms of area ( 31 square kilometer ), Zvezdara covers some of the highest sections of urban Belgrade, including the hills:

Despite the station's historic designation the original large green-blue Vitrolite panels and black trim on the platform walls were replaced by small square dark green tiles in a unique criss-cross pattern with yellow lettering and no trim.

Despite the city's size of one square city block, businesses such as Wheat Growers, the Carpenter Cafe, Dick's Garage, and the post office flourish here.

Despite its name, it also serves as the main balcony of the Istana, which overlooks the ceremonial square and lawn on the ground floor.

Despite its small area, being located less than a kilometer away from downtown ( Terazije ) it borders many other Belgrade neighborhoods: the square and neighborhood of Slavija to the north, Palilula to the northeast, Čubura and Gradić Pejton to the east, Neimar to the south and the park and neighborhood of Karađorđev Park to the southwest.

Despite that, Vračar is by far, thanks to its small area, the most densely populated municipality of Belgrade, with 18. 488 inhabitants per square kilometer ( 2011 census ; 29, 772 back in 1971 ).

Despite the name the monument has assumed in mind of people because of the square and compasses decorations, whether Granatenhjelm himself was a member of the Freemasons is not proven even if some historians have been led to assume it, perhaps out of weight from the popular designation of the monument.

Despite heavy police and NSS presence, at around 4: 30pm local time Mohamed Nasheed-Chairman of the MDP-along with other several leading members of the party, decided to gather at Republican square.

Despite an extensive 10-day search over 8000 square kilometres, neither the plane nor the bodies of the pilot and passengers were ever found.

Despite having a total area of 147, 826 square kilometers, the province has approximately only 900 kilometers of tarmac, a large portion of which is in dire need of rehabilitation.

Despite being a small department, Canelones has a population of over 500, 000 inhabitants and one of the highest densities in the country with 114 inhabitants per square kilometer.