Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.

Despite having a tremendous chronology, their use was not at all consistent or unchanging.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Despite having the stronger army, Carinus held the weaker position.

Despite having no debris shields, the spacecraft survived the comet passage intact.

Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades.

Despite not having a civil ensign, the EU's Fishery Inspection teams display a blue and yellow pennant.

Despite the efficacy of epilepsy surgery, some patients decide not to undergo surgery owing to fear or the uncertainty of having a brain operation.

Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.

Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.

Despite having direct access to Hitler, Heydrich's loyalty to Himmler remained firm.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Despite having the go-ahead runs on base, Smith was able to escape the inning without any further damage.

Despite having just turned 21, Cronje was made captain of Orange Free State for the 1990-91 season.

Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.

Despite having defeated Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

Despite ceasing to record new material between 2002 and ( most of ) 2005, Brooks continued to chart with previously recorded material, including a top 30 placing for " Why Ain't I Running " in 2003.

Despite the Doctor's claim not to give his screwdriver to anyone, he gives one to his own doppelgänger in " The Rebel Flesh ", and either gives or loans one to Rory Williams for use in " A Good Man Goes to War ", having previously loaned one to Rory in " The Big Bang ".

Despite being officially freed of slavery, many black Jamaicans were left with no option but to work in the jobs they had previously carried out as slaves, at very low wages.

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Despite the currently narrow entrances, this cistern ( 17 and 16 are the same cistern ) is a large vaulted chamber, which Warren described as looking like the inside of the cathedral at Cordoba ( which was previously a mosque ).

Despite the improvement from 2006 Rumfield was replaced by Chad Parker, who previously managed the Macon Music of the South Coast League.

Despite this distraction, Bizet revised his opinions of Wagner's music, which he had previously dismissed as merely eccentric.

Despite the previously highlighted criticisms of his work, Orosius ’ s books were considered to be successes from virtually the day of their publication.

Despite the advantage in Democratic registration in the district, voters elected Republicans Charlie Dent in 2004, 2006 and 2008 and, previously, Pat Toomey in 1998, 2000, and 2002.

Despite this there is a Somali Community Center and a Muslim Prayer Center in the location previously afformentioned.

Despite knowing the correct film, Stempel gives the wrong answer, allowing Van Doren to get a question he previously answered while in Enright's offices ; he provides the winning response.

Despite being considerably softer in its approach than its BBC predecessor, the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U. S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.

Despite the fact that the song was not officially released as a single, it became the highest-charting nonseasonal album cut ( not available in any retail single configuration or released as a promotional single to radio during a chart run ) to appear on Hot Country Singles & Tracks in the Broadcast Data Systems era, beating the record previously held by Garth Brooks ' " Belleau Wood.

Despite the severity of the accident, Allen was committed to continuing his role as Def Leppard's drummer, and realized that he could use his legs to do some of the drumming work previously done with his arms.

Despite the deteriorated relations, and the previously stated official and mutual public sentiment against the alliance, it would not be until September 30, 1800, that the treaty would officially be absolved by both signing parties with the signing of the Treaty of Mortefontaine, or Convention of 1800, and the Franco-American Alliance that began in 1778 was ended.

Despite this, plans were announced by Neil Aspinall in April 2006 to completely remaster and release the entire Beatles catalog on an unspecified online music service, as well as release some previously unheard work by the band.

Despite the diverse and independent press which has previously existed, and the assurances of one country, two systems, apprehensions have grown among Hong Kong journalists, since Hong Kong returned to PRC sovereignty in July, 1997, that Beijing would curtail their freedom to write articles on mainland China not to its liking.

Despite the criticism, Hewitt managed to balance the books of the NHS, which had previously been in huge debt.

Despite having previously served two terms, Laney campaigned against McMath under the slogan, " Re-Elect Ben Laney Governor, For a Second Time.

Despite the eviction law, when a mudslide destroyed the distillery in 1935, the French government assigned Army engineers to relocate and rebuild it at a location near Voiron where the monks had previously set up a distribution point.

Despite the fact that the USOC had not previously protested when other groups had used the name, they alleged that allowing " Gay Olympics " would injure them.

Despite previously having pledged to resign the leadership in the event that he was defeated at the 1993 Federal Election, Hewson decided to continue in his position.

Despite considerable public scepticism, Telford was confident the construction method would work: he had previously built at least one cast iron trough aqueduct – the Longdon-on-Tern aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal, still visible in the middle of a field, though the canal was abandoned years ago.