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 these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.

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 those concessions, the minimum daily rate in 1991 was only US $ 1. 75 for workers employed by small agricultural enterprises and US $ 3. 15 for workers in the big exporting concerns ; most workers did not earn the minimum wage.

Despite similar appearance as a layered model, it uses a much less rigorous, loosely defined architecture that concerns itself only with the aspects of logical networking.

Despite sanitary concerns, its consumption is extremely widespread in cities because it's the most practical and often cheapest way to lunch after fast food.

Despite these concerns, DVDs for reality shows have sold briskly ; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, and America's Next Top Model have all ranked in the top DVDs sold on Amazon. com, and in the mid-2000s, DVDs of The Simple Life outranked scripted shows like The O. C.

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 these concerns, the Syrian officials knew it was too late to turn back.

Despite these concerns, they believed that Nasser would use the Ba ' ath as the primary method of controlling Syria.

Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".

Despite his concerns, Aman continued using Elad for intelligence operations until 1956, when he was caught trying to sell Israeli documents to the Egyptians.

Despite these assurances, residents have been very vocal in their concerns that the neighborhood will lose its unique eclectic appeal and have panned what they call the destruction of one of the few locally owned business districts in the valley.

Despite concerns over his character, Titus ruled to great acclaim following the death of Vespasian in 79, and was considered a good emperor by Suetonius and other contemporary historians.

Despite concerns that the country was about to fall into a period of political instability, the transfer of power went smoothly.

Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, Pornography became the band's first UK Top 10 album, charting at number eight.

Despite these concerns, small numbers of Black Bermudians have chosen to describe themselves on census returns as mixed-racial, and the Native American demographic, which had disappeared for centuries, is slowly re-emerging, as more Bermudians-especially on St. David's Island-choose to identify to some degree, if not exclusively, with their Native American ancestry ( although many may feel that, in an increasingly polarised climate, this is a safer option than identifying themselves as in any way White, or European ).

Despite the early success of MP3. com on Wall Street ( the day of the stock IPO ( ticker: MPPP ), the stock rose from $ 28 to peak at $ 103 ), Robertson quickly led his company into a firestorm of lawsuits generated by the major record labels and music publishing concerns.

Despite the concerns of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, at the increasing costs of the war, Chamberlain maintained his insistence that the Boers be made to surrender unconditionally, and was supported by Salisbury.

Despite concerns of " The Cannon " being retired along with the old field, it has been taken out to the new complex and can still be heard following every Lions ' score.

Despite concerns and skepticism of other teachers, who feel that " you can't teach logarithms to illiterates ," Escalante nonetheless develops a program in which his students can eventually take AP Calculus by their senior year, which will give them college credit.

Despite such concerns the area was a tangle of rough country thickly covered in heavy brush well suited for deploying light infantry.

Despite his history of problems with schoolwork and concerns about his capacities and physical condition, the fourteen-year-old Krishnamurti was able to speak and write competently in English within six months.

Despite concerns that this new league would see the demise of the Alberta and Saskatchewan leagues, the governing bodies in both provinces sanctioned the new league.

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

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 his bloodline in that age when people died young and younger, the orphaned Conrad grew up poor by the standards of the nobility and was raised by Burchard, Bishop of Worms.

Despite being raised an atheist in a family of communists, Arkan made a point of showing public respects to the Serbian Orthodox Church, especially its head Patriarch Pavle.

Despite being raised in a Jewish family, he later became an agnostic.

Despite a target of £ 2, 500 a mere £ 600 was raised.

Despite these setbacks, the company persisted, having raised £ 200, 000 to finance the operations.

" Despite this, and despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, historians do not believe that Gelert ever existed.

Despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, now a tourist attraction, there is absolutely no evidence for Gelert's existence.

Despite being raised in a Jewish family, Franklin later became an agnostic.

Despite efforts by the soldiers and the Pence resolution mandated donations raised to provide for provisions, horses and wagons, each day those who could not make the march through the hot arid September Sacramento Valley-where afternoon temperatures top 90 ° F or over the 6, 000 foot crest of the North Coast Ranges-were left behind without food or water and were soon killed by a pack of wild boar that had formed behind and followed the group ; the survivors were told to stay at the Round Valley concentration camp or be shot on sight.

Despite its image for Mexican immigration, a large percentage are US citizens, born and raised in Coachella.

Despite the fears raised by proponents of prohibition, the alcohol related crime rate, and crime rate in general have remained flat since repeal.

Despite hard times of illnesses, crop failures, tornadoes, heavy rains and storms, some $ 10, 000 was raised towards a building project by its 75 family congregation.

Despite the raised profile resulting from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz ( film collaborations between Pegg and Wright that performed well in the Region 1 countries ), no DVDs surfaced between 2004 and 2007.

Despite these views, he raised money to build a Presbyterian Church in Nevada in 1864, although it has been argued that it was only by his association with his Presbyterian brother that he did that.

" Despite his success as a musician, he left little money and it was difficult to maintain the causes for which he raised more than $ 3 million in the last six years of his life.

Despite their different backgrounds and ages – Home an Edwardian aristocrat and Heath a lower-middle class meritocrat raised in the inter-war years – the two men respected and liked one another.

Despite his significant disabilities, which caused Kimmerling to experience motor difficulties and speech problems, his parents raised him as a typical child and encouraged him to strive high.

Despite being raised to a Jewish family, he was an agnostic in later life.

Despite a loyal fan following, serious doubts were raised about whether Winnipeg could support an NHL team in this new environment.

Despite converging agreement about the definition of persistent vegetative state, recent reports have raised concerns about the accuracy of diagnosis in some patients, and the extent to which, in a selection of cases, residual cognitive functions may remain undetected and patients are diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.

“ Despite six hundred years of decrees, canons, and increasingly harsh penalties, the Latin clergy still did, more or less illegally, what their Greek counterparts were encouraged to do by law — they lived with their wives and raised families.

Despite her criticism she raised $ 130, 000 for Gay Men's Health Crisis winning two out of three of the challenges she took on as Project Manager.