Despite his own desperate struggle, the Imperial Prince at once complied, demonstrating the high degree of confidence and mutual co-operation between the two generals.

Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

Despite the honey bee's painful sting and the stereotype of insects as pests, bees are generally held in high regard.

Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.

Despite his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.

Despite high ticket prices, the exhibition lost money, with only one recorded sale.

Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist.

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite these disadvantages, a high operating temperature provides an advantage by removing the need for a precious metal catalyst like platinum, thereby reducing cost.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

Despite high expectations, 1975 was among the Astros ' worst in franchise history.

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

Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.

Despite Japan's high standing in the League, the subsequent Lytton Report declared Japan to be the aggressor and demanded Manchuria be returned to the Chinese.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

Despite the estimations held by Hitler and others in the German high command, the Soviet Union was by no means weak.

Despite the high content of chemicals that are noxious to herbivores, some have evolved the ability to withstand the chemical defences of pepper plants, for example the sematurine moth Homidiana subpicta or some flea beetles of the genus Lanka.

Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, South Korea suffers perpetual damage to its credit rating in the stock market due to the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on the financial markets of the South Korean economy.

Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly, about 1. 2 % per year.

Despite the high population of gays and lesbians who called Greenwich Village home, very few places existed, other than bars, where they were able to congregate openly without being harassed or arrested.

Despite the high level of integration with word processing in general personal computing.

Despite its high price and rarity, thulium is used as the radiation source in portable X-ray devices and in solid-state lasers.

Despite its high cost, portable X-ray devices use thulium that has been bombarded in a nuclear reactor as a radiation source.

Despite its rotund appearance, the devil is capable of surprising speed and endurance, and can climb trees and swim across rivers.

Despite his unimpressive stature, strength and speed, Gretzky's intelligence and reading of the game were unrivaled.

Despite these advantages in speed, XyWrite does not have as many features as Word or OpenOffice. org.

Despite the gains in computational performance during this time period according to Moore's law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the speed on a prototypical year 2007 computer as compared to Office 2000 on a year 2000 computer.

Despite their speed and hunting prowess, cheetahs are largely outranked by other large predators in most of their range.

Despite the resulting poor production, the album was a well-received effort that was credited for blending elements of thrash and speed metal.

Despite the ban on military use, hollow-point bullets are one of the most common types of civilian and police ammunition, due largely to the reduced risk of bystanders being hit by over-penetrating or ricocheted bullets, and the increased speed of incapacitation.

Despite their overall satisfaction with the vehicle's performance, military commanders demanded that a few important changes be made: the lowest speed of the vehicle had to be reduced from to as an adjustment to the pace of marching soldiers.

Despite being less powerful, this engine was more efficient, allowing lower fuel consumption and better top speed, at the price of decreased acceleration.

Despite this, Railtrack made what would prove to be the fatal mistake of not properly assessing the technical viability and cost of implementing moving block prior to promising the speed increase to Virgin and the government.

Despite this, many manufacturers are beginning to avoid the segment definition for their products, as speed and basic functionality alone are often not sufficient to differentiate the many features that the devices are capable of.

Despite the urgency of the situation and their maximum speed of around, the ships travelled at a steady ; running at high speed used significantly more coal, so to complete the long journey it was necessary to travel at the most economic speed.

Despite her relatively small size, Henin has a powerful serve, which has been measured at a top speed of 196 km / h ( 122 mph ) at the 2005 Family Circle Cup.

Despite a weight increase to, this improved the tank's speed to.

Despite their orders to advance at all speed, they halted for the night.

Despite the amazing early speed the race slowed in the second portion, becoming just the second fastest road stage in Tour history.

Despite the speed limits people continue to use power-boats on the lake, both legally and illegally.

Despite the initial fears, University College recovered from the fire with remarkable ease and speed.

Despite their ubiquity, very few have survived into preservation as there is very little scope of operating them due to their unique means of obtaining power, slow speed and the fact they greatly exceed the loading gauge of most railway lines.

Despite the more common name, the 4-8-2 was actually suited in many ways more to flatland running than slow mountain slogging, with its 4-wheel leading truck for stability at speed.

Despite repeated requests by U. S. businesses and the federal government, the company would not invest in improvements to increase traffic volume or speed.

Despite their speed, the German jets were too few and produced too late to stop the Allied aerial armadas from simply overwhelming the Luftwaffe and leveling their targets.