Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

" Despite Afghanistan's great poverty, they had little interest in social, economic and technological development – at one time explaining that " we Muslims believe God the Almighty will feed everybody one way or another.

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

Despite the simplicity of their grass diet, new developments along the Persian Gulf coastline, particularly artificial island development in Arab states, pollution particularly by oil spills caused during the " Persian Gulf war " and also due to occasional oil spills, and uncontrolled hunting has had a negative impact on the survival of the dugongs.

Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States.

Despite many development plans and efforts, the state of telecommunication sector in the country remained extremely poor up to 1994.

Despite its incomplete state, the Jerusalem Talmud remains an indispensable source of knowledge of the development of the Jewish Law in Israel.

Despite such criticism, certain strides were made at COP12, including in the areas of support for developing countries and clean development mechanism.

Despite the expansion and development of the area, this quarter maintained its residential property.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite the increased cost, the more modern variation ( which can be considered as " heavier " than old streetcar systems, even though it is called " light rail ") is the dominant form of urban rail development in the United States.

Despite the layoffs, Sierra continued to publish games for smaller development houses.

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

Despite his poor social development, he did fairly well in school, particularly in reading.

VAZ 21099 4-dr saloon, rear view Despite NAMI ( National Automobile Institute ) having allowed the involvement of Porsche engineers in the engine development, the Samara never achieved the same success as the Riva, even though it did prove to be a robust car with a modern style and an initially competitive price.

Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.

Despite initial reports that pSOS support would continue, development was halted.

Despite the development of the ICON program, equality among schools was not assured because each school community could afford different capital outlays depending on the parents ' affluence.

Despite the initial institutional design of communism implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Eastern Bloc, subsequent development varied across countries.

Despite much of the borough being protected Green Belt land, Thurrock provides localised opportunities for further industrial and commercial development.

Despite the harshness of winter in most parts, the fertility of the plateau's volcanic soil made Armenia one of the world's earliest sites of agricultural activity.

Despite the current crisis, the Grand Duchy still welcomes over 900, 000 visitors a year who spend an average of 2. 5 nights in hotels, hostels or on camping sites.

Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.

" Despite copious quantities of waste, the DOE has stated a goal of cleaning all presently contaminated sites successfully by 2025.

( Despite recent finds indicating a Roman presence near the modern city of Minden, its location remains disputed ; other sites near Minden or Rinteln have been suggested by the historian Hans Delbrück ( 1848 – 1929 ) and the military writer Kurt Pastenaci ( 1894 – 1961 ), respectively.

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 rumours circulating on social network sites, the incident was reportedly not linked to the riots taking place.

Despite this the number of castle excavations fell between 1974 and 1984, with the archaeological work focusing on conducting excavations on a greater number of small scale, but fewer large scale sites.

Despite this lack of support from IBM, CP / CMS achieved great success as a time-sharing platform ; by 1972, there were some 44 CP / CMS systems in use, including commercial sites that resold access to CP / CMS.

Despite being the capital, the city is not the state ’ s main tourist attraction, eclipsed by Manzanillo and Comala, as it lacks major cultural and historical sites.

Despite being the most numerous species of flamingo, it is classified as near-threatened due to its declining population and the low number of breeding sites, some of which are threatened by human activities.

Despite this, the 40 principles has remained the most popular tool taught in introductory seminars and has consistently attracted the most attention amongst the tens of thousands of individuals who visit TRIZ-focused web sites in a typical month.

Despite belonging officially to Barbaricum, several sites of Roman presence are to be found on the area of the city: Devín Castle hill with Roman military garrison, Stupava with its trading (?

Despite the name, the Superfund trust fund lacks sufficient funds to clean up even a small number of the sites on the NPL.

Despite the acquiescence from the archeologists, some geologists and anthropologists claimed the discovery was dubious and lacked consistency with the geologic analysis of the sites.

Despite its predominantly military character, the castle is one of the few sites where Crusader art ( in the form of frescoes ) has been preserved.

Despite the website starting up two years after Canadian Money Tracker, it is the most popular of the Canadian currency tracking sites.

Despite the proximity of the breeding sites, Zino's and Fea's Petrels have never been found at each other's nesting areas, and Zino's is not known to hybridise with any other species.

Despite significant war damages, many interesting architectural historic sites have been preserved in Żary, including its medieval municipal urban arrangement.

Despite sharing the name squamous cell carcinoma, the SCCs of different body sites can show tremendous differences in their presenting symptoms, natural history, prognosis, and response to treatment.

Despite favorable reviews, the album was released with almost no promotion at all ; it is now sought after as a collector's item and fetches fairly high prices on sites like Amazon. com and eBay.

Despite the limited number of excavations carried out so far, a series of important sites has been identified in the district.

Despite King Features ' wishes, archives of the series have repeatedly appeared in various sites around the web.

Despite preferring sites with increased moisture, it does not tolerate inundation.