Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

Despite a slowing global economy, Indonesia ’ s economic growth accelerated to a ten-year high of 6. 3 % in 2007.

Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth.

Despite the global financial crisis, the South Korean economy, helped by timely stimulus measures and strong domestic consumption of products that compensated for a drop in exports, was able to avoid a recession unlike most industrialized economies, posting positive economic growth for two consecutive years of the crisis.

Despite concerns raised about its possible contribution to global warming, comparisons between urban and rural areas show that the urban heat island effects have little influence on global mean temperature trends.

" Despite the findings of chronic, global cognitive deficits in post-ECT patients, MacQueen and colleagues suggest that it is " unlikely that such findings, even if confirmed, would significantly change the risk – benefit ratio of this notably effective treatment.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

Despite its short atmospheric half life of 7 years, methane has a global warming potential of 62 over 20 years and 21 over 100 years ( IPCC, 1996 ; Berner and Berner, 1996 ; vanLoon and Duffy, 2000 ).

Despite being a relatively small company by global motorcycling standards, Aprilia is very active in motorcycle sports.

Despite the exhibitions, history, number of artists and global sweep of the artistamp movement, the medium had long been ignored by major institutions and derided by the arts establishment: before his death in 1989, Bidner attempted to donate his definitive collection to several major Canadian institutions but was turned down by every one.

Despite its size and global presence BASF has received relatively little public attention since abandoning its consumer product lines in the 90s.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite a year of global economic challenges and natural disasters in 2010-2011, Australia's tourism growth was supported by increased consumption ( up 4. 4 % over the previous year, largely due to an increase in the number of visitors from overseas.

Despite various interpretations of this term, it is primarily associated with the ideological notion of global governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve.

" Despite that, at the ongoing Doha round of trade talks for the World Trade Organization, discussion includes the prospect of competition law enforcement moving up to a global level.

Despite this finding, there was immense political and social pressure on James Hardie to negotiate a compensation deal ; governments were boycotting James Hardie products and unions were threatening to instigate a global union movement against the company based on a black ban of James Hardie products.

Despite its small population and geographic size, Lebanon plays an influential role in the production of information in the Arab world and is " at the core of a regional media network with global implications ".

Despite global recognition of the importance these areas, many mountain communities continue to live in poverty.

Despite ever-increasing global interaction and a growing human capacity for both good and evil, the fundamentals of human character and human needs remain much the same.

Despite being a work of fiction, the book has found use by global warming skeptics.

Despite tremendous success since the race's inception in 1976, and the observable impact of the global exposure it brought to the city, the organizers believed that the less expensive and more popular ( in the United States at least ) CART championship, dominated by American drivers, would be a more promising investment.

Despite this, the policy keeps inflation low, encourages foreign investment, and maintains the currency's role in the global financial system.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite her gradual warming to Jack, Arcee often displays a cold-blooded side of herself to her enemies and even her fellow Autobots, mostly driven by her trauma from losing Tailgate and Cliffjumper.

Despite console by Marge ( who thinks God would not end the world unless He announced it ) and Lisa ( who thinks the world has a better chance of ending through global warming or the passage of time ), Homer encounters signs suggestive of the Rapture.

Despite common ideological roots, considerable Soviet assistance in the past, and warming relations since 1982, China in 1987 regarded the Soviet Union's military strength and foreign policy as the major threat to its security.

Despite the potential for a financially strong owner, Stouffer had some non-baseball related financial setbacks and, consequently, the team was cash-poor.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

Despite his army's smaller size, he was able to defeat the Solomonids at the battles of Serjan and Zikr Amhara and consequently pillaged the surrounding areas.

Despite significant academic interest, there is no consensus on its precise nature and consequently a final ' correct ' resolution has not yet been established.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

Despite a lack of sufficient authority, Strauß even went after the article's author, Conrad Ahlers, who was consequently arrested in Spain where he was on holiday.

Despite the bulk of the muscle body being visible from the anterior aspect of the forearm, the brachioradialis is a posterior compartment muscle and consequently is innervated by the radial nerve.

Despite being not far distant from Chesham, Hawridge is consequently more closely linked in this way with the neighbouring villages of Cholesbury, St Leonards and Buckland Common.

Despite his contracts from the King, Peter Pett sided with Parliament during the English Civil War and was consequently retained as Commissioner at Chatham Dockyard during ' The Commonwealth ' ( 1649 ~ 60 ).

Despite this problem, this threat was expected and consequently could be controlled to some extent.

Despite this, he was defeated when Coop threw the car horn into the Saving Grace, which attracted the Florgnots into it and consequently making them attack the battleship from within.

Despite the WWWThreads acquisition, Infopop / Groupee failed to gain back most of their lost market share, and consequently, many UBB. classic and even WWWThreads / UBB. threads forum owners continued to move to competing forum software packages.

Despite Greek resistance, the Germans took advantage of the Greek army's presence in Albania against the Italians to advance in Northern Greece and consequently conquer the entire country within 3 weeks, with the exception of Crete.

Despite spending on the house, the 4th Earl had kept his own son short of money during his lifetime and he had consequently married without his father's consent.

Despite his insisting that it was not a political gesture, he was consequently blackballed from the national team for several years until Marcello Lippi called him up as a starter for a friendly in 2005.

Despite the success, the line-up kept changing, the drummers were consequently after another: Marek Olszak, Ryszard Oleksy and Przemysław Pahl.

Despite having a 32-bit ALU and word-length, processors based on ARM Architecture version 1 and 2 had only a 26-bit PC and address bus, and were consequently limited to 64 MiB of addressable memory.