Despite the political campaigns launched in order to put Sardinian on an equal footing with Italian, and any emotive value linked to Sardinian identity, the sociolinguistic situation in Sardinia due to several reasons, mainly political and socioeconomic ( the gradual depopulation of the island's interior and rural exodus towards more urbanized and industrialized areas, the forced use of Italian presented as a prerequisite to get jobs and as one of the keys to social advancement, the barriers to communication between the dialectal varieties etc.

Despite the gradual expansion of medical knowledge on SIDS causes and risk factors, definitive diagnosis remains difficult ; infanticide and child abuse cases may be misdiagnosed as SIDS due to lack of evidence, and caretakers of SIDS victims are sometimes falsely accused of foul play.

Despite its association with Zhang Heng or even the later Ma Jun ( c. 200 – 265 ), there is evidence to suggest that the invention of the odometer was a gradual process in Han Dynasty China that centered around the huang men court people ( i. e. eunuchs, palace officials, attendants and familiars, actors, acrobats, etc.

Despite this imbalance in the Rhodesian electoral system, Smith and other white politicians argued there was nothing fundamentally racist about it: They stated that improvements in black education and wealth would, over time, ensure a gradual move to majority rule.

Despite these conflicts, it was the gradual cooling of the planet during the last ice age that spelled their doom.

Despite gradual expansion of the campus to the west and south, the campus is fairly compact and retains a park-like, tree-lined setting.

Despite her gradual warming to Jack, Arcee often displays a cold-blooded side of herself to her enemies and even her fellow Autobots, mostly driven by her trauma from losing Tailgate and Cliffjumper.

Despite a gradual rise in the number of civilian participants, it was not until 1919 that the first woman successfully completed the Four Days Marches: Mrs N. van Stockum-Metelerkamp from Amersfoort.

Despite a slow start ( a 1 – 10 record in his first year ), he made gradual improvement, but could never quite break the. 500 mark, leading the Green Wave to a 4 – 7 in 1986 and, in 1987, to a 6 – 6 record and a trip to the Independence Bowl, Tulane's fifth bowl game in over 40 years.

Despite its gradual modernization and relative expansion since the 1960s, the educational system remained underdeveloped until the 2000s when it finally reached some of the developed world's best practices and trends.

Despite being located over warm waters, only gradual intensification was anticipated.

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 a decline in population in recent decades, Great Bend continues to serve as a service industry and retail commerce center for central Kansas.

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 being robbed of some quickness and athleticism, he still managed to score 27. 0 points per game, and he also added 6. 7 assists per contest, his highest average as a member of the Jazz.

Despite his arrogance and " betrayal " of ECW, over time Van Dam became applauded by fans recognizing his athleticism and unique maneuvers.

Despite showing athleticism in his early games, he failed to grasp the Bengals playbook fully, and never established himself with the team.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

Despite being at one time a defender of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam later abandoned this view in favor of a position he termed " internal realism ".

Despite the disappointment, Hume later wrote, " Being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I soon recovered from the blow and prosecuted with great ardour my studies in the country ".

Despite such concerns from critics, legislators, and publishers, Scott Miller later recounted that 3D Realms saw very little negative feedback to the game's controversial elements from actual gamers or their parents.

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 fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

Despite an optimistic announcement by Stallman in 2002 predicting a release of GNU / Hurd later that year, the Hurd is still not considered suitable for production environments.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Despite the thrilling win and the recognition, Bogart later commented, " The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one ... too many stars ... win it and then figure they have to top themselves ... they become afraid to take chances.

Despite his desire to become a minister, near the end of his studies Kepler was recommended for a position as teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz ( later the University of Graz ).

Despite numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

Despite being raised by religious parents, he later on became a deist.

Despite Ribbentrop's best efforts, Matsuoka was sacked as Foreign Minister later in July 1941, and the Japanese-American talks began.

Despite this result, Regusters ' conclusions about this tape were later challenged by Mackal, who asserted that the Mokèlé-mbèmbé did not have a vocal call.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite these doubts, items that were stolen from Moore were later found in Nichols ' home and in a storage shed that he had rented.

Despite initially holding an ambiguous neutrality, Clement was later forced to name Charles, Archduke of Austria, as King of Spain, since the imperial army had conquered much of northern Italy and was threatening Rome itself ( January 1709 ).

Despite these data and later evidence that proteolytically digested proteins yielded only oligopeptides, the idea that proteins were linear, unbranched polymers of amino acids was not accepted immediately.

Despite the subsequent explosion in records from doo wop acts in the later 50s, many failed to chart or were one-hit wonders.

Despite the baqt northern Sudan became steadily Islamicized and Arabized ; Makuria collapsed in the 14th century with Alodia disappearing somewhat later.

" Despite his later influence, Karl Marx did not view his work as an ethical or ideological response to nineteenth-century capitalism ( as most later commentators have ).

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.