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 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 cutting tolls by up to 50 % traffic volumes are less than half of the projected 60, 000 vehicles a day.

Despite that, like all agencies that deal with huge volumes of timely information, UP and later UPI had its share of remembered mistakes.

Despite having little formal education Brock succeeded in creating a formidable defensive position largely due to his reading, which included several volumes on the science of running and setting up artillery.

Despite being the son of a country vicar and publishing two volumes of poetry Snow was England's most formidable fast bowler between Fred Trueman and Bob Willis and played Test Matches with both of them at either end of his career.

Despite heavy competition from other server platforms, IBM's zSeries has enjoyed a resurgence due to the widespread adoption of Linux and the escalating transaction volumes ( in CICS, IMS, DB2, and other mainframe subsystems ) brought about by e-business growth.

Despite the young main characters, cute monster designs, and initial appearances of a shōjo or Pokémon-esque series, the story quickly takes on a much darker and more disturbing tone, with later volumes involving some graphic depictions of gore and sexual violence.

Despite the use of the Gulf of Nicoya as an entryway to Costa Rica's inland territory, the port of Puntarenas was not developed until 1840 when coffee production in the highlands reached exportable volumes.

Despite postage rates for embossed volumes for the blind being reduced by the Postmaster General in 1908, financial problems continued, and after World War I began, it became very difficult to retain staff, even for short periods of time.

Despite the constant ill will between the Enoshima and Tsujikou students, Nakajo remains detached from most of the fighting until later volumes, and at the end of the story he challenges Eikichi to a one on one fight.

Despite this critical success neither book was promoted properly and both volumes ended up being pulped.

Despite attracting celebrity buyers including Hans Stuck and Georg " Schorsch " Meier, the car never once reached more than 10 % of the sales volumes achieved by its Stuttgart rival, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.

Despite the water content in all beverages, water itself is not usually considered a beverage.

Despite an abundance of rivers, large bodies of water are rare.

Despite its abundant land and water resources, Iraq is a net food importer.

Despite discussion of programs to require payments for resources ( especially water ) and to collect fines from heavy polluters, however, little has been accomplished.

Despite the lack of universal agreement upon definition for determining a stream's source, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution agree that a stream's source should be considered as the most distant point ( along watercourses from the river mouth ) in the drainage basin from which water runs.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

Despite the enormous costs and increase in city powers ( opposed by many ) nearly all cities in the developed world instituted good water and sewage treatment facilities.

Despite this, the water quality has still improved, with several historians having called it at various times in the past as an " open sewer ".

Despite the name, shellfish are not a kind of fish, but are simply animals that live in water.

Despite high levels of evaporation, the lake is fresh water.

Despite increasing salinization, the springs remain an important source of drinking water for Bahrain.

Despite its shallowness, the water has low transparency, so bottom plants are poorly developed and most algae are of planktonic type.

Despite the fire, citizens refused new taxes for the construction of a municipal water system.

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 occasional droughts throughout central Indiana, Fortville has a steady and reliable supply of water because it is situated over a natural aquifer.

Despite being promoted as an area of " tranquility and refinement ," the original Town was plagued by inadequate water drainage, a makeshift sewage system, and the absence of local fire protection and schools.

Despite preparations in 1996, in some parts of town flood water reached 4 feet above the 100 year base flood elevation.

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 these shortcomings, the failed attempts to gather water and repair the casks that were issued ultimately caused Córdoba to distribute his remaining sailors and abandon his smallest ship, a brigantine paid for on credit.

Despite not going over the 15, 000 population barrier, Marlin did get many tourists from around the country for its famous mineral water, which was believed to heal any sickness or pain, by bathing in it.

Despite its propensity to nest near water, the Osprey is not a sea-eagle.