Despite their appearance of being slow, crocodiles are top predators in their environment, and various species have been observed attacking and killing sharks.

Despite their usual slow movements, European bison are surprisingly agile and can clear three metre wide streams or two metre high fences from a standing start.

Despite reinforcements his progress was painfully slow against stiff opposition.

Despite the need for hurry and men being sent in advance, the governor was slow to grant them the resources they needed, prompting threats from Bering.

Despite intense micro-managing on the part of Disney management, the flagship television network was slow to turn around.

Despite the promise shown in the Toronto series, the Islanders had a slow start to the 2002 – 03 NHL season.

Despite a respectable 17 – 10 start during the 1974 – 75 season, Coach Tom Nissalke was fired as owners become tired of the Spurs ' slow defensive style of games.

Despite some bright spots in relations, the Episcopal Church in the South was slow to give up on the notion of the Confederacy, resulting in the military governor of Alabama closing all Episcopal churches in the state, effective on September 20, 1865.

Despite the efforts of the developers, growth was very slow in this period, and San Carlos ended the 19th century with fewer than one hundred houses and families.

Despite these formidable statistics, each processor was slow by 2006 standards, operating at a mere 375 MHz.

Despite a slow manga market, Fruits Basket remained the second highest overall selling manga series among the Bookscan companies in 2007.

Despite his accomplishments and accolades, some college recruiting analysts opined that he was too small and too slow to succeed in major college football when he signed to play for the University of Florida.

Despite his collegiate success, some NFL teams still felt that Smith was too small and slow for the pro game.

Despite slow initial sales the album went gold in France and Australia over the next two years, achieving gold status in the U. S. in 2002, and selling over six times platinum in Australia in 2006.

Despite the name, FASTRAND was slow.

Despite the need for rapid action to take full advantage of the German vulnerability, the 7th Armoured Division was slow to redeploy and spent the morning of 12 June attempting to advance on Tilly-sur-Seulles according to its original orders.

Despite their slow progress with public popularity in America, the squadron proved the benefits of aerial combat to both sides.

Despite this, the canal entered a period of slow growth between 1875 and 1900.

Despite slow maturation so that growing up is rarely achieved by two and a half years, bulldogs ' lives are relatively short and at five to six years of age they are starting to show signs of aging.

Despite the relative slow adoption of his approach in the beginning, Ellis founded his own institute.

Despite a host of new features and graphics, RDX sold very poorly in stores, due to some bugs and slow gameplay ( most notoriously the F4 map screen, which brings the game to a crawl ).

Despite the success of Nova, and the launch of Hellas SAT, cable TV has been slow to follow, only existing on a local level in some communities around Greece until recently, when companies such as OnTelecoms have launched cable ( IPTV ) platforms.

Despite its eventual success, Minder was a slow burner, not helped by being delayed by a nine-week technicians ' strike which effectively blacked out the ITV network.

Despite successful breeding programs, their somewhat unique nature of single births and slow growth has made these programs challenging.

Unfortunately in the literature the definition is given in two variants: Despite the fact that Bernoulli defined B < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 / 2 ( now known as " second Bernoulli numbers "), some authors set B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 (" first Bernoulli numbers ").

Despite this modest initiative, the financial results were excellent, as it stimulated an increase of foreign trade volume among its members from 3. 5 to 8. 2 billion US dollars between 1959 and 1967.

Despite losing this match, Essendon's performance was good enough for its players to be awarded Brownlow Medal votes – best-on-ground was Brent Stanton ( 3 votes ), followed by Jason Johnson ( 2 votes ) and Andrew Lovett ( 1 vote ).

Despite this, in 2008 Georgia economy grew by 2. 3 %.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

Despite the criticism, the registry agreement for the top-level domains < tt > jobs </ tt > and < tt > travel </ tt > includes a US $ 2 fee on every domain the licensed companies sell or renew.

Despite being closely matched in ratings, Polgár won the match 6 – 2.

Despite being younger, 25 to Polgár's 33 years, and higher rated, 2708 to Polgár's 2682, Navara was crushed by Polgár who won the match 6 – 2.

Despite the current crisis, the Grand Duchy still welcomes over 900, 000 visitors a year who spend an average of 2. 5 nights in hotels, hostels or on camping sites.

Despite finishing fifth in Benítez's first season, Liverpool won the 2004 – 05 UEFA Champions League, beating A. C. Milan 3 – 2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended with a score of 3 – 3.

Despite these pressures, consumer price inflation has remained low ( 2. 2 % according to the Central Bank of Malta 2nd Quarterly Report in 2007 ), reflecting the impact of a fixed exchange rate policy ( 100 % hard peg to the euro, in preparation for currency changeover ) and lingering price controls.

Despite the numbers not being retired, no one has ever worn David Akers ' 2, Donovan McNabb's 5, or Randall Cunningham's 12 since those players have left the Eagles.

Despite the name, reverse Polish notation is not exactly the reverse of Polish notation, for the operands of non-commutative operations are still written in the conventional order ( e. g. "/ 6 3 " in Polish notation and " 6 3 /" in reverse Polish both evaluating to 2, whereas " 3 6 /" in reverse Polish notation would evaluate to ½ ).

Despite such figures, S < sup > 2 +</ sup > is rare, S < sup > 4, 6 +</ sup > being more common.

Despite being only 2 miles apart and quite diminutive in size, Saint Kitts and Nevis were widely recognized as being separate entities with separate identities, until they were forcefully unified in the late 19th century

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

Despite acquiring an increasing percentage of the popular vote — 34 % overall in 2006 — opposition parties gained small numbers of seats in the general elections of 1984 ( 2 seats of 79 ), 1988 ( 1 seat of 81 ), 1991 ( 4 seats of 81 ), 1997 ( 2 seats of 83 ) and 2001 ( 2 seats of 84 ).

Despite the album's record sales it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2.

Despite their common efforts, bilateral trade has been comparatively low, valued at US $ 12. 09 million in 2005 ; India's exports to Tajikistan were valued at US $ 6. 2 million and its imports at US $ 5. 89 million.