Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

Despite its interest in foreign investment to diversify the economy, the Bahamian Government responds to local concerns about foreign competition and tends to protect Bahamian business and labor interests.

Despite this competition, D & D remains a market leader in the role-playing game industry.

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

Despite the competition, Harley-Davidson was already pulling ahead of Indian and would dominate motorcycle racing after 1914.

Despite approval from the FA, the Football League determined that the club should not enter the competition, since it had not qualified.

Despite finishing 6th in 1896, North Melbourne was not invited to the breakaway the competition, a fact not lost on their supporters today.

Despite the lack of competition, mobile market penetration equals more than 60 % is well above the African average.

Despite their inexperience as well as an increasing difficulty of the games, Ender devises new tactics and his squad soon excels and leads the competition.

Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world.

Despite this, internal political competition drained the Omsk's resources and served as a major obstacle for smooth government operations and city development.

Despite the demand for electrical consumer goods and large investments in heavy engineering and nuclear power, profits began to fall for the first time in the face of increasing competition and internal disorganisation.

” Despite the settlers ’ intentions, towns failed to develop for two reasons: the generally low level of economic activity in the area and the competition from plantation settlements already providing the kind of marketing and purchasing services typically offered by a town.

Despite upped competition from auto malls in Folsom, Roseville, and Elk Grove, Arden-Arcade has retained many high-end dealers that are unique to the Sacramento area.

Despite being a major power of the cotton industry in the first quarter of the 19th century, the Strutt's company began to lose out to competition from Lancashire mill towns.

Despite it being named after an outlaw named Cullen Baker, it is a huge family event and has a parade, craft / food booths, a pageant, a tug-of-war competition, bouncy houses, a street dance, and a rodeo.

Despite the increased efficiency, the financial stability of the railroad began to crumble, prompted by the high cost of the western expansion, electrical expenses, and competition with other railroads and ships using the newly-opened Panama Canal.

Despite creating 375 new jobs, the Wal-Mart has been a point of contention for many residents since it was announced, as fears arise that competition from a new Wal-Mart will force local business owners to shut down.

Despite the competition, and later competition from the railways, the canal company paid dividends to its shareholders until the turn of the 19th century, although profits fell steadily from the 1860s.

Despite his initial reluctance to take part in the competition, Ataru becomes extremely interested in the game when he meets Lum.

Despite being from one of the traditional three large Dutch cities, it has not been able to match AFC Ajax, Feyenoord or PSV in terms of success in the Eredivisie or in European competition.

Despite agreeing to enter the competition, the other members of the Gospel Cavaliers, who were " disheartened by their belief they were getting nowhere fast ," refused to enter.

Despite increasing competition from other Slovenian universities, it remains the largest and central institution of higher education in the country.

Despite growing to be one of the largest retail chains in the world through most of the 20th century, increased competition led to its decline beginning in the 1980s.

Despite the many avenues for the exchange of ideas between faculty and administration, complaints of a lack of communication persist.

Despite progress since the Soviet era, the unemployment rate still hovers near 30 % and there remains a huge gulf between actual and potential Gross Domestic Product.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Despite his own desperate struggle, the Imperial Prince at once complied, demonstrating the high degree of confidence and mutual co-operation between the two generals.

Despite this road and those running through a few other passes, in general the escarpment impedes easy communication between the two countries.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite pressure from the government of the United States, the Chilean Congress, keeping with tradition, conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri.

Despite the difficult relations between the local Cubans and the new Europeans, some cooperation was in evidence.

Despite this, there has been unofficial interactions in the economic level between the two countries.

Despite the severity of this boundary event, there was significant variability in the rate of extinction between and within different clades.

Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.

Despite the differences between comparative law and these other legal fields, comparative law helps inform all of these areas of normativity.

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.

Despite caveats in the introduction to the DSM, it has long been argued that its system of classification makes unjustified categorical distinctions between disorders, and uses arbitrary cut-offs between normal and abnormal.

Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous ( Captain Marvel's powers came from magic, unlike Superman's ), the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred.

Despite wavering tensions between Tehran and Cairo, the two countries are members of the OIC and the Developing 8

Despite this, there are still obvious differences between eastern and western Berlin.

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 the comparative obscurity of the kingdom, there were strong connections between Essex and the Kentish kingdom across the river Thames which led to the marriage of King Sledd to Ricula, sister of the king, Aethelbert of Kent.

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 the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite close cultural ties, diplomatic relations between the two countries have in many instances been volatile.

Despite considerable congressional resistance, presidential and popular pressure led to a November 1993 agreement brokered by the Catholic Church between the administration and Congress.