Despite its toxicity, a considerable fraction of petroleum oil entering marine systems is eliminated by the hydrocarbon-degrading activities of microbial communities, in particular by a remarkable recently discovered group of specialists, the so-called hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria ( HCCB ).

Despite the ubiquity of computer music in contemporary culture, there is considerable activity in the field of computer music, as researchers continue to pursue new and interesting computer-based synthesis, composition, and performance approaches.

Despite its many ( serious ) limitations, including extremely low volume, it has considerable expressive power, the player being able to control attack, duration, volume, and even provide certain subtle effects of swelling of tone and a type of vibrato unique to the clavichord.

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

Despite considerable popularity amongst the people, Madero ´ s administration soon encountered opposition both from more radical revolutionaries and from remnants of the former regime.

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

Despite this, the strong claims made by the doctrine of human rights continue to provoke considerable skepticism and debates about the content, nature and justifications of human rights to this day.

Despite discharging considerable volumes of water at times, particularly before the advent of large scale river regulation, the Mouth has always been comparatively small and shallow.

Despite the new role of megacorporations, many nations still hold considerable sway through economic, social and military means.

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.

Despite the volcanic activity, the termini of the glacier have still advanced, with a slight advance on the western lobe and a more considerable advance on the more shaded eastern lobe.

Despite considerable cultural continuity, life for Aborigines was not without significant changes.

Despite considerable investments, other dual carriageways are partially up to either motorway or state road standards as they contain unfinished overpasses, lack of medians, roundabouts, uncontrolled access points, and absent entry and exit ramps.

Despite their considerable differences of subject, and often also of method, they continued their close interaction with each other and with Derrida, from the early 1970s.

Despite a considerable movement among Inner Mongolia's Mongols ( who comprised then around 15 % of Inner Mongolia's population, while Han Chinese around 83 %) for unification with Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia remained part of China.

Despite their neutrality, the Norwegian government went to considerable lengths to accommodate Britain, on account of both British pressure and an anti-German sentiment.

Despite all of this, a considerable number of well-restored buildings still exist in downtown Basseterre.

Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the Ilim were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca.

Despite the longevity of the dugong, which may live for 50 years or more, females give birth only a few times during their life, and invest considerable parental care in their young.

Despite the considerable difference in equipment the two activities offer similar pleasures and some pilots are involved in both sports.

Despite these changes, the Bastille remained a state prison, subject to special authorities, answering to the monarch of the day and surrounded by a considerable and threatening reputation.

Despite his political reforms and his passion for trying to increase the importance of Savoy in Europe, Victor Amadeus left a considerable cultural legacy in the city of his birth.

" Despite the fact that the group had neither performed outside the Bay Area nor appeared on TV, the album garnered considerable attention in the USA and sold well enough to earn a gold record award.

Despite considerable critical acclaim, their early releases never gave Mercury Rev more than cult popularity, though they appeared on the smaller second stage at some 1993 Lollapalooza stops.

Despite the surface appearance of a homogeneous political culture, there is considerable dispute among residents over planning.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite financial difficulties, Caligula embarked on a number of construction projects during his reign.

Despite mechanization, production difficulties related to humidity control, especially during the pressing, were still present in the late 19th century.

Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.

Despite a potentially workable design, there were still substantial difficulties in constructing a full-scale engine.

Despite the difficulties, Tirpitz persuaded the Reichstag to pass a further Novelle in March 1908.

Despite their planned integration into the Kosovar society and their recognition in the Kosovar constitution, Romani and other minorities ( i. e. Ashkali and Egyptian communities ) continue to face many difficulties, such as segregation and discrimination, in housing, education, health, employment and social welfare.

Despite financial difficulties, Frank was always the spotlight of fun around the household.

Despite its external trade difficulties, Mongolia has continued to press ahead with reform.

" Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that: " My favorite single is ' My Favorite Mistake ,' it was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play.

Despite the difficulties, it is expected that the deficit will reach 3. 3 % in 2013.

Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a sexist society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.

Despite the difficulties, these problems can be analysed in terms of how model-building observers infer from measurements the computational capabilities embedded in non-linear processes.

Despite the army's access to the armaments factories of Lille, the Army of the North suffered from severe supply difficulties which kept the soldiers ' already poor morale at a permanently low level.

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Despite the economic difficulties, what truly produced the demise of the UAR was Nasser's inability to find a suitable political system for the new regime.

Despite these difficulties, utilizing the Yarkovsky effect is one scenario under investigation to alter the course of potentially Earth-impacting near-Earth asteroids.

Despite these conceptual difficulties, under most definitions the radii of isolated neutral atoms range between 30 and 300 pm ( trillionths of a meter ), or between 0. 3 and 3 angstroms.

Despite the economic difficulties faced by the First Wilson Government, it succeeded in maintaining low levels of unemployment and inflation during its time in office.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.

Despite difficulties solving the differential equation for hydrogen ( he had later help from his friend the mathematician Hermann Weyl ) Schrödinger showed that his non-relativistic version of the wave equation produced the correct spectral energies of hydrogen, in a paper published in 1926.

Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called " Ithaca " was universally held to be the home of Odysseus ; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of Lipari as the island of Aeolus, are usually taken with a grain of salt, and attributed to the ancient tourist trade.

Despite his difficulties with Greek and mathematics, he stood at the head of his class in preparatory school.

Despite the foreign and domestic difficulties during his reign, which culminated in the fall of Constantinople and of the Byzantine Empire, contemporary sources generally speak respectfully of the Emperor Constantine.

Despite being a phenomenally successful playwright during his lifetime, his propensity for high living ( he had a table permanently reserved for him at Maxim's ), gambling, and the failure of his marriage led to financial difficulties.