Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Despite extensive internationally financed programs to upgrade the harbors at Moroni and Mutsamudu, by the early 1990s only Mutsamudu was operational as a deepwater facility.

Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.

Despite extensive traditional medicinal use, melissa oil was initially prohibited by the International Fragrance Association ( IFRA )' s 43rd amendment, but this restriction appears to have been revisited and relaxed in the 44th amendment.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Despite being a time of great attrition for the religion in England before Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century, the recusant period reaped an extensive harvest of saints and martyrs.

Despite extensive constitutional protections, the Karimov government has actively suppressed the activities of political movements, continues to ban unsanctioned public meetings and demonstrations, and continues to suppress opposition figures.

Despite the extensive intervention of central banks, including partial and total nationalization of major European banks, the crisis of sovereign debt became particularly acute, first in Iceland, though as events of the early 2010s would show, it was not an isolated European example.

Despite the extensive classical art galleries and museums in the city, there is also a contemporary arts scene that has become increasingly prominent in recent times.

Despite his extensive knowledge of ancient history, classics, archaeology and what would be termed today cultural anthropology, he apparently had not even read enough in his nominal major to pass the required examination.

Despite her extensive research, she concluded " it is

Despite extensive research, no trace of documentation of the saying as Murphy's law has been found before 1951 ( see above ).

Despite active research spanning five decades, extensive regulatory actions, and an effective ban on their production since the 1970s, PCBs still persist in the environment and remain a focus of attention.

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 this, Bizet kept on good terms with his mother-in-law and maintained an extensive correspondence with her.

Despite Binet's extensive research interests and wide breadth of publications, today he is most widely known for his contributions to intelligence.

Despite an extensive tour and an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, the album was not commercially successful, and when the label folded, the band and the label parted ways.

Despite the extensive cuts, the film was still negatively received by audiences, and remained an object of extreme controversy.

Despite extensive police resources channelled towards their capture, a wall of silence created by a mixture of fear and respect in the Shankill community, provided few leads that could be followed.

Despite the extensive project, builders retained the shell of the 1809 – 1812 building.

Despite extensive vaccination in many regions, it remains a major disease of dogs.

Despite his lack of an extensive formal education, Brock appreciated its importance.

* Despite extensive searches, no complete print of the movie has been found.

Despite a request from the Burritos that the remnants of their publicity budget be diverted to promotion of the single, it also flopped.

Despite promotion involving former Formula One racing driver Stirling Moss, the reaction upon its release was that the C5 was impractical in the British climate meaning it was only comfortably usable in southern England in the spring and summer, and possibly dangerous on busy roads.

Despite promotion of the album by going on tour with Linkin Park and Godsmack on the Family Values Tour, Shangri-La Dee Da was a commercial disappointment.

Despite losing some key players, Bologna expected to be challenging strongly for promotion from Serie B in the 2005 – 06 campaign.

Despite this lack of promotion, many critics did praise the book, and a large number of them seemed most affected by the character of Hurstwood, such as the New Haven Journal Courier, which proclaimed, “ One of the most affecting passages is where Hurstwood falls, ruined, disgraced ”.

Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.

Despite many years of commendable service, Barré was denied a promotion by William Pitt the Elder.

Despite receiving little promotion, the single hit the number one position on the UK Singles Chart, beating " U Know What's Up " by Donell Jones to the top.

Despite HarperCollins ' predictions-and, according to Moore, their deliberately limited promotion of the book-the book became enormously popular, becoming the largest-selling nonfiction book for 2002 at such major outlets as Barnes & Noble and Amazon. com, and occupying the # 1 spot in the U. S., the UK ( including being the number one seller on Amazon. co. uk before a British printing was even proposed ), Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere.

Despite the lack of expectations, the team managed to make the promotion play-offs in McCarthy's first season, but it was third time unlucky for McCarthy in them as the team lost out to local rivals West Bromwich Albion over two legs, losing 3 – 2 at Molineux and 1 – 0 at The Hawthorns.

Despite this building's significance in Nuneaton's past and its extraordinary recent history, it is a relatively unknown and obscure place, with little promotion or signage.

Despite achieving the goal of promotion, Thordarson was sacked by Gunnar Gíslason only days after the club won promotion.

Despite a large amount of promotion on behalf of Columbia Records ( including a 25-minute documentary on the history of The Obsessed ), the album did not sell as well as expected.

Despite this lack of promotion and being a collection of old material, Incesticide debuted at number 51 in the Billboard 200 and sold 500, 000 copies in two months.

Despite heavy promotion, the album lagged commercially.

Despite extensive promotion, a major display of the Kinetoscope, involving as many as twenty-five machines, never took place at the Chicago exposition.

Despite falling behind the WWF and NWA as a major promotion throughout 1986 and 1987, Gagne still managed to find and / or develop legitimate young talent like Scott Hall, The Midnight Rockers ( Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty ), " Bull Power " Leon White ( later known as Big Van Vader ), The Nasty Boys ( Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags ), and Madusa Miceli during that timeframe.

Despite his success and previous military record, Kuroki was one of two senior field commanders denied promotion to Field Marshal, thought to be largely because of his Satsuma origins at a time when the government was dominated by Chōshū rivals although this may have been due to the internal politics within the Japanese Imperial Army of the time.

Despite this appointment, Pitt is uncomfortable with his desk job, and still personally heads projects in the field, becoming entangled in villainous plots just as easily as before his promotion.

Despite his knighthood and promotion as well as his continuing active duty status, he never saw action in battle again.

Despite some early poor form-which included a 4-0 Scottish Cup humbling at the hands of Stenhousemuir-Sturrock eventually guided the team to a comfortable promotion in 1996 – 97.

Despite the album's poor sound quality and virtually inexistent label promotion, it created enough controversy around the group to allow them get signed by Cat Music, one of the largest Romanian record labels, paving their way to national superstardom.

Despite his brother's promotion to yokozuna that year, creating the first ever sibling grand champions, the two were barely on speaking terms.