Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Despite the difficult relations between the local Cubans and the new Europeans, some cooperation was in evidence.

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 rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer.

Despite the increasing evidence of a military build-up on Cuba, no U-2 flights were made over Cuba from September 5 until October 14.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite the deep erosion of the valleys, the surrounding uplands show little evidence of glaciation, suggesting that the ice was thin, or at least unable to cause much erosion at these higher altitudes.

Despite this, " there is ample evidence that the medieval clergy were the main practitioners of magic and therefore the owners, transcribers, and circulators of grimoires " while several grimoires were actually attributed to various Popes.

Despite numerous similarities in phrasing and factual errors, the court found the evidence inadequate and dismissed the case.

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Despite some claims that the word kiosk originally came from the Swahili language, all evidence points to a Middle Persian origin.

Despite the clear evidence that all the ancient ruins in Maldives are Buddhist, Heyerdahl claimed that early " sun-worshiping seafarers ", called the " Redin ", first settled on the islands.

Despite the subjects ' own expectations of consensus, interpretations of the commandments showed wide ranges of variation, with little evidence of consensus.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite Strabo's conviction of a lie, the perimeter said to have been given by Pytheas is not evidence of it.

Despite Macdonald's claims that he was innocent, evidence came to light showing receipts of money from Allan to Macdonald and some of his political colleagues.

Despite the lack of observational evidence for proton decay, some grand unification theories, such as the Georgi – Glashow model, require it.

Despite these data and later evidence that proteolytically digested proteins yielded only oligopeptides, the idea that proteins were linear, unbranched polymers of amino acids was not accepted immediately.

Despite some valid criticisms of the early experiments, there has been no evidence of fraud.

Despite the proviso that the Court was for disputes " which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy ", the Court never required evidence that diplomatic discussions had been attempted before bringing the case.

Despite this association with the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur, the vertebra shows no evidence that it was chewed on by the dinosaur.

Despite some similarities between these two causes, the creation science movement represented a shift from overtly religious to covertly religious objections to evolutionary theory — raising what it claimed to be scientific evidence in support of a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Despite rumours of devil worship and other dark arts being practised during the meetings, there is no evidence to prove this.

Despite a general selling of state property and contrary to neoliberal prescriptions, the regime retained the lucrative state owned mining company CODELCO which stands for about 30 % of government income.

Despite his promises to the contrary, John appealed to Innocent for help, observing that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1203 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord.

Despite his physicians ' predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk again, but from that point on he was in constant pain and was severely limited in his ability to move.

Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, stuttering is not reflective of intelligence.

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, however, Mosaic was never released as open source software during its brief reign as a major browser ; there were always constraints on permissible uses without payment.

Despite its contrary nature, scalability also may be found in lossless codecs, usually in form of coarse-to-fine pixel scans.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Despite an urban legend to the contrary, Paul Lynde remained in the center at the producers ' discretion.

Despite rumors to the contrary, the brown recluse spider has not established itself in California or anywhere outside its native range.

Despite some belief to the contrary, the Cornish Rex's short hair does not make it non-or hypo-allergenic.

Despite evidence to the contrary, his view held sway with most chemists, and it became commonly accepted wisdom that creosote, carbolic acid, and phenylhydrate were identical substances, with different degrees of purity.

Despite numerous cast and production changes over the years, Last of the Summer Wine continued to be popular with viewers and was renewed year after year despite reports to the contrary.

Despite popular prejudices to the contrary, the U. S. economy consistently affords a lower level of economic mobility than all the continental European countries for which data is available.

Despite perceptions to the contrary, only a very small proportion of applications for Scheduled Monument Consent is refused.

Despite reports to the contrary, this duo was just called Kim and Kelley, not The Breeders or The Breederz.

Despite Davout's reports to the contrary, Napoleon ordered him to attack the Austrians on his front in the morning, with the proviso that Lefebvre's equally depleted corps would support him if he needed help ( A total of approximately 36, 000 men for both corps ).

Despite claims to the contrary, the opening scenes of the first episode, taking place on a train, bear a striking resemblance to those of the first episode of the series Peyton Place ; the made for television film, Della ( aka Royal Bay starring Joan Crawford ) appears to be the inspiration for the story involving Elizabeth.

Despite assurances to the contrary, the property rights of Mexican citizens were often not honored by the U. S. in accordance with modifications to and interpretations of the Treaty.

Despite the arrival of a contrary order from Moscow, Admiral Kolchak was sentenced to death along with his Prime Minister, Viktor Pepelyayev.

Despite claims to the contrary, he continued work with the band.

Despite the findings to the contrary, many people in France persisted in the belief that the Queen had used the La Mottes as an instrument to satisfy her hatred of the Cardinal de Rohan.

Despite some claims made to the contrary, Divine always considered himself to be male, and was not transgender or transsexual.

Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people.

Despite strong public and political sentiment to the contrary, however, there were some who encouraged the US government to help victims of Nazi genocide.