Despite its many variations, it is always a thick porridge or soup of rice which has usually disintegrated after prolonged cooking in copious water.

Despite its reasonably copious strength of numbers, the Providence Petrel is deemed to be in a precarious disposition because its breeding is confined to two mountain tops and one tiny islet, and is therefore at great risk from a catastrophe.

Despite five books of his copious bewailing of his fate, the immediate cause of Augustus's banishment of the greatest living Latin poet to Pontus in 8 AD remains a mystery.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

Despite these hints of uneven distribution, classical rabbinical literature expresses the view that manna fell in very large quantities each day.

Despite the strongly militaristic character of the Khmer Republic, and quantities of military and financial aid from the United States, its army ( the Force Armée Nationale Khmère, or FANK ) was poorly trained and unable to defeat either the CPNLAF or the Vietnamese forces of the PAVN and NLF.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

Despite large quantities of classified material produced by the IC, the amount of classified information produced on any one topic can be quite limited, and may be taken out of context if viewed only from a classified-source perspective.

Despite these disconcerting facts, they exist in minute quantities in mascara, and their presence has not been positively linked to negatively affect health.

Despite the barren landscape, Tindouf is a resource-rich province, with important quantities of iron ore located in the Gara Djebilet area close to the border with Mauritania.

Despite impressions to the contrary, forensic DNA analysts often must resolve ambiguities, particularly when interpreting difficult evidence samples such as those that contain mixtures of DNA from two or more individuals, degraded or inhibited DNA, or limited quantities of DNA template.

Despite the fact these hormones are also present in human, the contribution of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone from beef is minuscule compared to the quantities produced naturally in the body.

Despite this loss, Tarakan crude oil ( mixed with lesser quantities of Manchurian oil shale distillates ) became the primary feedstock for Japanese diesel fuel in 1942 while reserve supplies of California crude oil remained the primary feedstock for Japanese gasoline and residual fuels until 1943.

Despite these simplifications, Japan lacked the industrial infrastructure to produce suitable quantities of the Type 100.

Despite this, they are routinely deposited in numerous ways on land and into water systems, whether as part of an intended process or as industrial and household waste.

Despite this, more than 1 million tonnes of castor beans are processed each year, and approximately 5 % of the total is rendered into a waste containing negligible concentrations of undenatured ricin toxin.

Despite its biosphere reserve status, the lake contains an unknown number of unexploded bombs from tests in the 1950s through 2000s, and sewer waste from Montreal decreases the water quality.

Despite failing to be selected for this contract Veolia have refused to rule out the possibility of them building their own energy from waste site to dispose of commercial and industrial waste.

Despite these divisions, a proposal to build a new 52, 000 seat stadium on industrial waste ground at Cambuslang was unveiled in April 1992.

Despite their limitations, and their extremely high capital cost, draglines remain popular with many mines, due to their reliability, and extremely low waste removal cost.

Despite repeated media coverage over the last twenty years of the plight of St Ita's continuing decaying conditions, and the general need for social housing and county amenities, such as sports facilities and waste water treatment in the area, the entirety of St Ita's has remained largely unaltered.

Despite city approval in 1992 of the Riverside South plan, which would create a public park with private funds, opponents claim that any complementary public funding to bury the road would benefit only the developer and effectively waste the public funds used to renovate the viaduct in the 1990s.

Despite two failed pilots, the broadcaster was reluctant to waste the money that they had spent developing the show.

Despite his close connections with the royal family, he showed no eagerness to waste his estates in the king's service during the English Civil War and sat in parliament until 1648 when he was escluded under Pride's Purge.

Despite the cancellation of funding by the DOE, the FutureGen Alliance continues to move forward with the project, opening an office in Mattoon and planning to buy the land for the plant in August 2008, in partnership with a local group.

The New York City Parents Union filed its own lawsuit in June 2011 to stop co-locations and school closings, stating that “ Despite inconsistent and uncertain results, the DOE continues to push public school parents into a privately managed school system where many charters perform worse than the public schools while failing to serve their fair share of students with special needs and English Language Learners .”

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

Despite his personal distaste for obesity ( `` disgusting '' ), Dr. Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat.

Despite the frequency with which this name is used as a polemical label, there has been no historically continuous survival of Arianism into the modern era.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Despite numerous searches, the city has never been found.

Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

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

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Despite these efforts, Cairo's population has doubled since the 1960s, reaching close to seven million ( with an additional ten million in its urban area ).

Despite being extensively hunted, the coyote is one of the few medium-to large-sized animals that has enlarged its range since human encroachment began.

Despite the fact that it has not been formally proven, the Church – Turing thesis now has near-universal acceptance.

Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

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 his leanings toward Deism, Alexander has retained a respect for the Catholic Church, believing it to embody a great deal of accumulated human truth within its rituals.

Despite his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.

Despite the consensus of public health professionals regarding the benefits of vaccination, among chiropractors there are significant disagreements over the subject, which has led to negative impacts on both public vaccination and mainstream acceptance of chiropractic.

Despite the archaeological discoveries, the Garden Tomb has become a popular place of pilgrimage among Protestants.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite not adhering to the relational model as described by Codd, it has become the most widely used database language.

Despite student enthusiasm for Keggy, the mascot has only received approval from the student government.