Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since the 1960s, the population is expected to grow to around 264 million by 2020 and 308 million by 2050, falling to sixth behind Pakistan and Brazil sometime before 2050.

Despite his new record deal, he had a falling out with The Beast Crew when he signed over fellow member Champtown ( the two have become friends again since ).

Despite setbacks, such as Lucy falling to the bottom of the loch, about 600 sightings were reported in the places they conducted the hoaxes.

Despite a falling out between the organisers ( see controversy below ) a successful event was held in Alexandra Palace the next year in 2000.

Despite some tired runners falling at the 30th and appearing injured, no horse deaths have occurred at the 30th fence to date.

Despite falling for two consecutive weeks and leaving the charts, the song re-entered at number 22, its peak position, on April 26, 2003.

Despite falling outside of city limits, and having a post office explicitly named " Warrington ," mail going to the addresses in the Warrington ZIP code ( 32507 ) fall under the jurisdiction of Pensacola.

Despite this however, western-style pop music lost popularity to arabesque in the late 70s and 80s, with even its greatest proponents Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu falling in status.

Despite falling to nine seats in 1995, Pekka Haavisto, joined Paavo Lipponen's grand coalition first cabinet, making the Green League the first Green party in a national cabinet.

Despite falling ill from the apples he finished in fourth place.

Despite this success, Rose left the group to resume his solo career after falling out with Simpson, and was easily replaced by Junior Reid.

Despite his contempt for women, Octave finds himself slowly falling in love with Denise, whose inability to be seduced by his charms further inflames him.

Despite the lack of resources, a number of young talented players were found to play for the club ; crucially, when many of these moved on, including Stephen Pearson and James McFadden, they brought revenue in the form of transfer fees, and with John Boyle waiving the club's personal debt to him, its financial future was assured by the conclusion of the 2004 – 05 season with the club's yearly losses falling to one of the lowest figures in the Premier League and the club coming out of administration in time to avoid a ten-point Premier League penalty which was being phased in for teams in administration.

Despite falling out of favour with Saddam

Despite achieving its objectives, the attack on the Custom House was a setback for the IRA as a large number of Volunteers were captured either during the attack or when falling back.

Despite these new developments and storylines, the programme's viewing figures were falling.

Despite their remarkable progress and general prosperity, 19th-century U. S. farmers experienced recurring cycles of hardship, caused primarily by falling world prices for cotton and wheat.

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 falling popularity, Kan rejected calls to step down while the country continued to suffer from the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crises of spring 2011.

Despite falling popularity towards the end of production which saw the Ford Sierra outsell it, a total of 807, 624 MK2 Cavaliers were sold in Britain during its seven-year production run.

Despite ND's falling performance in the Greek legislative election, 2007, the PA. SO. K.

Despite falling 72-56, Bishop's fancy feet helped set a bold new record.

Despite an impressive beginning, with 3, 600 turning out for the first home game against the London Racers, crowds would not be consistent and it soon became apparent that ice hockey at the busiest indoor venue in Europe would no longer be viable with the season's average attendance being just 2, 150 per game, falling far short of the rumoured number of 3, 000 needed to cover costs.

" Despite their later falling out that would result in a change from Sedaka's record label from Elton's Rocket Records to Elektra, Elton has been credited by Sedaka as being responsible for his breakthrough back into the U. S. pop music scene.

Despite sending Kerry Wood to the mound and holding a lead twice, the Cubs ultimately dropped Game 7, and failed to reach the World Series.

Despite Davies ' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice ( and both times culpable for the planet's destruction ).

Despite several brief interludes of British occupation, including once during the Seven Years ' War and twice during the Napoleonic Wars, Martinique has remained a French possession.

Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

Despite its diameter of 0. 4 light-years, Barnard 68 only has twice the mass of the Sun, making it both very diffuse and very cold-about 16 degrees Kelvin.

Despite being married twice more, Gable chose to be interred beside Lombard in Forest Lawn Memorial Park when he died in 1960.

Despite his poor academic performance and having been arrested twice during high school, Watson was able to use his mother's connections to gain admission to Furman College in Greenville, South Carolina.

Despite being tropical, snow has fallen at Eungella National Park twice in recorded history-1964 and in 2000.

Despite these defences, Doetinchem was besieged many times and during the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ) was besieged and conquered twice.

Despite taking the lead twice in the match, Blackpool lost out 4 – 2 to Matt Busby's Manchester United in the final, with Matthews assisting Mortenson for Blackpool's second.

Despite having a relatively small player base, mainly in NSW and Queensland, the national side has twice won the Rugby World Cup – in 1991 and 1999.

Despite this handicap the DFV won the 24 hours of Le Mans twice in its original 3. 0-litre form for Mirage and Rondeau ( although the Mirage win in 1975 was with a significantly de-tuned unit ).

Despite failing twice, he claims to have passed the bar exam legitimately on the third try after eight weeks of study, because " Louisiana at the time allowed you to take the Bar over and over as many times as you needed.

Despite a winning record, the 1916 Indians season was disappointing, losing twice to the Canton Bulldogs, who were led by Jim Thorpe, and splitting a pair of games with the Columbus Panhandles.

Despite Wright's goalscoring feats, the highest number of games he started for England consecutively was three — something he only did twice.

Despite making the train track jump, Dominic crashes into a semi-truck and rolls his car twice.

Despite retiring only twice, a ninth place in the British Grand Prix was his best result of the season and he only once qualified in the top 10.

Despite there never being a regular Concorde service in Switzerland, the supersonic aircraft twice landed in Geneva.

Despite losing the next three frames from winning positions, White was able to seal a memorable 10 – 4 success and became the first player to beat Hendry twice at the World Championship.

Despite winning the North Wales Amateur Cup three times in the 1950s, Nomads moved into local football for seven years prior to rejoining the Welsh League in 1966, twice finishing as runners-up at the start of the 1970s.

Despite its mixed fortunes, Malta is the most successful country never to have won the contest, having come 2nd twice ( 2002 and 2005 ) and 3rd twice ( 1992 and 1998 ) with singers including Chiara and Ira Losco.

Despite this, the Prussians seized a number of positions from numerically superior forces, inflicted equivalent losses on an enemy more than twice as strong, and left the field in perfect order.

Despite being in direct conflict with the Japanese copyright law as many dōjinshi are derivative works and dōjinshi artists rarely secure the permission of the original creator, Comiket is still permitted to be held twice a year and holds over half-a-million people attending each time it convenes.