Despite her active participation in urging social change and working as a caseworker, Hall's mother says Camilla became dissatisfied with her work.

Despite these claims he nominated people active under Nazi Germany to top ministerial positions, including Hans Globke, Director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany between 1953 and 1963 and one of the closest aides to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

Despite the presence of both sex organs, it is thought unlikely that both are simultaneously active.

Despite the park administration's definition of the active delta as beginning at Porto Viro, there is another active channel upstream from it at Santa Maria in Punta, where the Fiume Po divides into the Po di Goro and the Po di Venezia.

Despite his rapidly declining health, Roosevelt remained active to the end of his life.

Despite its alliance with the French in the Crimean War, Britain viewed the Second Empire of Napoleon III with some distrust, especially as the emperor constructed ironclad warships and began returning France to a more active foreign policy.

Despite his nominal retirement, Jardine was still very much active in business and politics and built a townhouse in 6 Upper Belgrave Street, then a new upscale residential district in London near Buckingham Palace.

Despite his illness, Jardine was still very active in keeping an eye on business, politics and current affairs.

Despite this distancing effect, however, Lingard maintained an active interest in politics all his life and was a noted pamphleteer.

Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing inter-party debate on the pace of market reforms.

Despite this, he never became particularly active in any of its activities, and never adopted an orthodox Marxist viewpoint, refuting concepts such as class struggle which were central to Marxist thought.

Despite his performing repertoire being concentrated largely on the works of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart and Brahms, almost all of his own compositions ( none of which are in the active repertoire ) are atonal.

Despite the title Alice is a mere spectator in their fight rather than playing a more active role.

Despite being a relatively small company by global motorcycling standards, Aprilia is very active in motorcycle sports.

Despite this, Grim Fandango has been the centerpiece of a large fan community for the game that has continued to be active more than 10 years after the game's release.

Despite a busy professional career, throughout her life she continually took an active interest in aspiring young actors by supporting local amateur drama societies, as well as being the president of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company until her death.

Despite the cost and complication disadvantages, active crossovers provide the following advantages over passive ones:

Despite the rise of Protestantism, it was home to several Catholic monasteries, including that of the Premonstratensians, which is still active.

Despite well over a century of dispute, controversy remains active.

Despite this, George tried to remain active in politics.

Despite the fact that Kansas is not seismically active, a strong earthquake could pose significant threats to the state.

Despite he regarded his personal faith to be a private matter he evidently identified himself with his confessional minority group when he supervised governmental educational programs for protestants and was also very active in founding Parisian Biblical Society in 1818 where he later served as a vice-president.

Despite several severe interruptions in her career, Francis is still active as a recording and performing artist ( as of November 2011 ).

Despite the growth of Bayesian research, most undergraduate teaching is still based on frequentist statistics.

Despite the amount of research, there is still doubt about the internal relationship of the languages of Austro-Asiatic.

Despite the differences between systems, the purposes are the same: to guide users of clinical research information on which studies are likely to be most valid.

Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.

Despite decades of research, where these animals go for the rest of the year remains unknown.

Despite decades of experience and economic research, debates about the costs and benefits of minimum wages continue today.

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Despite research having started in the 1950s, no commercial fusion reactor is expected before 2050.

Despite rigorous research and development projects, end-users experience mixed results with handwriting recognition systems.

Despite significant research, prognosis of this disease has changed little over time.

Despite such criticisms, there is some educational quality to the group's activities and they have helped to foster a good deal of valuable research, especially in the area of medieval crafts.

Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.

Despite intensive research, the relationship between morphology, chain structure and conductivity is poorly understood yet.

Despite research on DID including structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography, event-related potential and electroencephalography, no convergent neuroimaging findings have been identified regarding DID, making it difficult to hypothesize a biological basis for DID.

Despite the fact that TM research has moved from " kooky margin to respectable mainstream ", TM's more recent appeal has been attributed to its ability to relax without chemical assistance rather than to the research.

Despite the success of purely electronic speech synthesis, research is still being conducted into mechanical speech synthesizers.

Despite her extensive research, she concluded " it is

Despite inroads made by numerous prominent sinologists, independent scholarly research of the Cultural Revolution is discouraged by the Chinese government.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

Despite extensive research, no trace of documentation of the saying as Murphy's law has been found before 1951 ( see above ).

Despite the insistence of the US Office of Education that there was no money to fund the project, Howe persisted, and insisted the project be classified as a research project.