Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

Despite the apparent risk, the statistical incidence of injury in supervised training and competition is extremely low.

Despite early problems with recruitment and training, it is becoming effective in fighting against the Taliban insurgency.

Despite these efforts the army is still not in a position to provide forces with the appropriate " level of training and discipline " without significant risk, according to Janes.

Despite the lack of formal ownership, firms can and do gain from high levels of training, in part because it creates a corporate culture or vocabulary teams use to create cohesion.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

Despite that, the wooden dummy training is still useful long before the student can actually apply its principles, as it helps focus and clean up the lower level techniques.

Despite improvements, the road was still considered a challenging drive ; the Victorian Police motor school even using it for training around 1966.

Despite its pledge to support the stabilization of Iraq, Iranian authorities continued to provide lethal support, including weapons, training, funding, and guidance, to Iraqi Shia militant groups that target US and Iraqi forces.

Despite his important role in guiding the economy of China over the course of his career, Zhao had no formal training in economics.

Despite being known for his powerful singing voice, Dio claimed never to have taken any vocal training.

Despite his hatred, the general was obliged to release him and Mengistu went for six months ' training in Maryland, USA.

Despite the specificity of the name, game engines are often used for other kinds of interactive applications with real-time graphical needs such as marketing demos, architectural visualizations, training simulations, and modeling environments.

Despite a bequest from Mary Peabody Mann and efforts to turn the school into a technical training center, Sarah's funds were depleted by the time of her husband's death in 1887, and she spent the last four years of her life retired from public activity.

Despite his occupational training, Rice quickly made a career as a performer.

Despite his training in the classical presentational acting style ( see also Classical acting ) at the Bristol Old Vic, he is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.

Despite its evident progress and usefulness, today's quantitative archaeology is often inadequately represented in archaeological training and education.

Despite the poor training of the Lao soldiers, some of whom had never fired a weapon, these raw new units were moved northward out of Luang Prabang over a several month period to garrison Nam Bac.

Despite the importance of Verrocchio's workshop in the training of younger painters, very few paintings are universally recognised as his own work and there are many problems of attribution.

Despite these influences and her classical training, the diverse musical styles that she has used throughout her career and sometimes in the same soundtrack include " rock, electronica, oriental, ambient, industrial, pop, symphonic, operatic, chiptune, and more ".

Despite indifferent training opportunities, Xie became the Chinese girls ' chess champion in 1984.

Despite never having received naval training or participating in naval combat prior to the war, and constantly being outnumbered and outsupplied, he went to his grave as one of few admirals in world history who remained undefeated after commanding as many naval battles as he did ( at least 23 ).

Despite his performances dipping as the result of a persistent groin injury and a reported training ground bust-up with teammate Zlatan Ibrahimović, Vieira helped Juventus retain the Scudetto, which was later stripped.

Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.

Despite the weakness of its adult organisation, the SDF was instrumental in the development of the movement of Socialist Sunday Schools for children, institutions which taught socialist ideas and ethical principles to youngsters in competition with the Sunday religious training schools of the organised churches.

Despite its troubles, in 2000 Aon bought Reliance Group's accident and health insurance business, as well as Actuarial Sciences Associates, a compensation and employee benefits consulting company.

Despite a large accident at the 2000 Revival, the first racing accident to put him in hospital overnight, he continued to drive until at least 2004.

Despite Vatanen's nearly fatal accident in Argentina, in the middle of the season, his team-mate and compatriot Timo Salonen led Peugeot to its first drivers ' and manufacturers ' world championship titles, well ahead of Audi and their Audi Sport Quattro.

Despite being accident prone, mild-mannered, and easily flustered, Fuko is a very strong-willed girl.

Despite a suggestion of suicide, an army court of inquiry concluded that he had tripped and that the shooting was an accident .< ref >

Despite the severity of the accident, Allen was committed to continuing his role as Def Leppard's drummer, and realized that he could use his legs to do some of the drumming work previously done with his arms.

Despite the multiple official inquiries that failed to find evidence of assassination, some continue to believe that the death of Hammarskjöld was not an accident.

Despite his progress, his caretakers noticed a tendency for him to turn to the right because of the effects of his accident.

Despite numerous court cases charging Ford with partial liability for fires caused in accidents, the company has never been found liable in a Crown Victoria accident.

Despite the uniqueness of any individual accident, Exley found that at least one of a small number of major factors contributed to each one.

Despite her life – changing accident, she continued hosting her children's shows with more energy than ever.

Despite this accident, Taylor wanted to become a pilot and sought Wilbur and Orville to teach him.

Despite the accident, the expedition proceeded to the west coast, which was surveyed as far as Roebuck Bay.

Despite the deaths, the accident is considered a prime example of successful crew resource management due to the manner in which the flight crew handled the emergency, and the high number of survivors considering that the airplane was landed without conventional control.

Despite the ferocity of the accident, approximately two-thirds of those on board survived due to multiple factors.

Despite the city's Department of Public Works insistence that the incident had nothing to do with the tremor and was just an accident, Roark tries to halt the subway lines which run parallel to where the mishap took place as a precaution.

Despite the accident Button still wanted to race, but was withdrawn by his team on medical advice.

Despite the problems with the authorities and his fame, Arigó died in 1971 in an automobile accident.

Despite being blinded in a navy accident at the age of 19, John set up his own business and, in his spare time, studied law with Henry.

Despite a relatively happy marriage Sheila isn't physically attracted to Gordon, describing the first time she saw him naked as " like a road accident.

Despite the life-threatening accident, Johnn survived, but left the band to recover from the injury, due to the John's departure Phil joined the band.

Despite these settlements, Landis has never publicly accepted responsibility for the accident.

Despite this, in 1926 and 1927 there were a total of 24 fatal commercial airline crashes, a further 16 in 1928, and 51 in 1929 ( killing 61 people ), which remains the worst year on record at an accident rate of about 1 for every flown.

Despite his French name, Meccaneaux was a working-class accented English rat who was frequently called by the brothers to repair the van ( generally, after Hugo's driving had caused an accident ) and, on occasion, to provide other forms of technical expertise-such as the building of the Concrete Destruction Ray ( known by Victor as the " Discreet Correction Ray ").