Despite Prometheus ' warning, Epimetheus accepted this " gift " from the gods.

Despite his later renown as a scientist, he spent most of his time devouring English literature, although he showed a remarkable gift for mathematics as well.

Despite student protests, the gift was accepted with the Sheik Zayed Theatre being the second largest lecture hall on the campus.

Despite this offensive display, the judges inexplicably give him first place for having the best report, and he wins a $ 20 gift certificate at the mall.

Despite competition from the nearby large towns of East Kilbride and Hamilton, Strathaven still has a number of craft and gift shops, alongside well known town centre names.

Despite the fact about many similarities, one respect in which Lesya and her father were different is that her father had a gift for mathematics, but no gift for languages, on the contrary, Lesya had no gift for mathematics, but she knew English, German, French, Italian, Greek, Latin, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, and her native Ukrainian.

Despite his gift of foreign languages and civil knowledge, Pettigrew leaned toward the military as a way to serve his country and his state.

Despite the fact that Hyde mentions God ( such as stating his hair was a gift from God in " Eric's Hot Cousin ") he does not express any sort of organized religious affiliation.

Despite its remoteness, Radisson has plenty of services for its residents and travellers: two fuel stations, hotel, motel, campground ( summer only ), a general store, restaurants, gift shops, a school and a hospital.

Despite a somewhat eccentric personality, Mr. Feldman had a gift in talking with people and helping them to understand the value of life insurance.

Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century ( and the first to sell for over £ 1m ), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages that summer, Shearer was soon subject to a British transfer record-breaking £ 3. 3million bid from Blackburn Rovers.

Despite investment in the team including Tore Andre Flo for a club record £ 12 million, European success beyond the Champions league group stages again proved elusive.

Despite painting 10, 000 works rated of ' national importance ' by the British Museum he had only £ 12 cash in his possession ( having never opened a bank account ), and owed £ 2 million to various creditors.

Despite a target of £ 2, 500 a mere £ 600 was raised.

Despite these setbacks, the company persisted, having raised £ 200, 000 to finance the operations.

Despite this, he was wealthy enough to purchase land worth £ 4, 200 in 1648.

Despite the clear annual value of Newstead being below the £ 200 assigned as the limit for the suppression of the lesser monasteries, this priory obtained the doubtful privilege of exemption, on payment to the Crown of the heavy fine of £ 233 6s.

Despite initially saying that a culvert would not be built, negotiation continued, and – helped by grants of £ 250, 000 from Gloucestershire County Council and £ 125, 000 from North Wilts Council – the Department of the Environment decided in 1997 that a culvert would be provided under the road.

Despite spirited opposition by Maldon, the bill became an Act of Parliament on 17 June 1793, creating The Company of the Proprietors of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, with powers to raise £ 40, 000 by the issuing of shares, and a further £ 20, 000 if required.

Despite Port Vale being Matthews ' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion ; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £ 1 a week.

Despite Stoke being strapped for cash, Tony Waddington gave him a two year contract at £ 50 a week – this was double the wages he received at Blackpool.

Despite the London side suffering relegation during his loan period, McCarthy impressed enough to earn a move and he was signed permanently in May 1990 for £ 200, 000.

Despite Blair's claims that Andros was unsupportive, Andros donated the cost of the bricks to construct the college's chapel from his own funds, and convinced the House of Burgesses to approve funding of £ 100 per year for the college.

Despite the book becoming an instant hit, Constantine and Woodall were only given an advance of £ 10, 000.

Despite having to pay £ 35 8s 9d (£ 35. 43 ) the mill survived.

Despite gaining the latter's support, his expansion plans were at first rebuffed, although he succeeded in having the annual grant increased to £ 4, 000.

Despite much public interest in the proposals, the London County Council was reluctant to pay the estimated £ 7 million (£ as of ) construction costs, and the scheme was abandoned.

Despite the local community raising over £ 100, 000 towards the building of a new pool, efforts to bring a respectable swimming pool to the town have so far been unsuccessful.

Despite a per capita GDP ( PPP ) of more than US $ 30, 000 ( CIA Factbook $ 50, 200 < ref >

Despite this comment, Samuelson spent the last 50 years of his life obsessed with the problems of capital theory identified by Hayek and Böhm-Bawerk, and Samuelson flatly judged Hayek to have been right and his own teacher, Joseph Schumpeter, to have been wrong on the central economic question of the 20th century, the feasibility of socialist economic planning in a production goods dominated economy.

Despite an expansionary fiscal policy, the public debt remained moderate at around 50 percent of GDP as deficits were financed partly by privatization receipts.

Despite being panned by the critics, the film eventually earned $ 50 million.

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 cutting tolls by up to 50 % traffic volumes are less than half of the projected 60, 000 vehicles a day.

Despite this, it was one of their most critically acclaimed albums and was included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995.

Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid Of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them.

Despite the longevity of the dugong, which may live for 50 years or more, females give birth only a few times during their life, and invest considerable parental care in their young.

Despite this, unofficial CPU upgrades include the Motorola 68010, 68020 ( at up to 25 MHz ), and 68030 ( at up to 50 MHz ).

Despite the shortened 66-game NBA season due to the NBA lockout, the Spurs won 50 games and tied the Chicago Bulls for the best record in the league.

Despite its rapid rate of growth, more than 50 percent of city land remains undeveloped.

Despite forcing Walton out, Holmes bought the store's inventory and fixtures for $ 50, 000, which Walton called " a fair price ".

Despite being given less than a 50 % chance of survival, he eventually pulls through.

Despite the huge amount of buildings and artists involved with the BAT ( over 50, 000 buildings have been uploaded to the SimCity3000Unlimited web site at EA. com ), some feel that it has not gained the cult-status the SCURK has.

Despite this possibility, doctors recommended the vaccine due to the overwhelming public health benefit, because the claimed rate was very low ( one case per 310, 000 immunizations, or about 50 cases out of the 15 million immunizations each year in the United States ), and the risk of death from the disease was high ( pertussis killed thousands of Americans each year before the vaccine was introduced ).

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

Despite its daring innovations ( and some scathing attacks by critics ), it quickly became an international success, with some 50 performances in the first 18 months after the premiere.

Despite the relatively small size of the school, the hockey team is often ranked quite highly nationally, although it has been over 50 years since the Tigers last won an NCAA title.

Despite being a radio friendly track, the single only peaked at number 50 in the UK.

Despite serious concern and many suggestions from its employees to require a minimum purchase and / or a delivery charge, Kozmo continued to use the same business model of free delivery no matter what the price, even if it were a $. 50 pack of gum or candy bar.

Despite the general shortage of evidence for extensive fishing, thought to require relatively sophisticated tools which have become available only in the last 30 – 50 thousand years, it has been argued that exploitation of coastal fauna somehow provided hominids with abundant LC-PUFAs.

Despite finishing second in the league, the club was relegated to Ligue 2 by the French Professional League for amassing a € 50 million ($ 68 million ) debt.

Despite being more expensive than the Astra H, the Astra I / J has been a strong sales success in the UK, where it was the best selling car in June 2010 with well over 10, 000 sales-outselling its crucial rival the Ford Focus by nearly 50 %.