Despite having stronger connections to Chile than the distant city of Buenos Aires during most of the 19th century the explorations of Francisco Moreno and the campaigns of the Conquest of the Desert bought the area into the claims of the Argentine government which saw it as the natural expansion of the Viedma colony and the Andes as the natural frontier to Chile.

Despite these explorations of the character's personality, O ' Connor said in an interview that revealing the face of the Chief is not as important as revealing the events going on around the character.

In regard to those discussions, Ferguson wrote that the three scholars agreed “... it was unfortunate that so little work was being carried on in so important an area and that something should be done to increase explorations and excavations .... Despite the amazing discoveries made between 1930 and 1950, work on the Pre-Classic was virtually at a standstill in 1951.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite these relationships, the various membranes are not identical in structure and function.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

Despite this, arms smuggling is rampant and black-market small arms, usually Russian-made, are bought and sold by various non-government organizations ranging from paramilitary groups to terrorist organizations.

Despite this, " there is ample evidence that the medieval clergy were the main practitioners of magic and therefore the owners, transcribers, and circulators of grimoires " while several grimoires were actually attributed to various Popes.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Despite the many celebrated films he directed, many of which won Academy Awards in various categories, Frankenheimer was never nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

Despite various contradictions, the term, dimension is sometimes interchangeable with universe or reality.

Despite various characters having appeared within company publications for decades, few if any have aged to any appreciable degree.

Despite a hostile Legislative Council, an extended drought and various industrial disputes, Askin and his Government passed several reforms.

Despite the large number of mainlanders who consume Spam, and the various recipes that have been made from it, Spam, along with most canned food, is often stigmatized on the mainland as " poor people food ".

Despite gaining a significant though minroty share of the vote in various constituencies, the COP failed to capture a single seat.

Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

Despite their appearance of being slow, crocodiles are top predators in their environment, and various species have been observed attacking and killing sharks.

Despite various attempts to get her out, such as the Carnation Plot in September, Marie Antoinette refused when the plots for her escape were brought to her attention.

Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.

Despite the observation by Alfred Wallace that Mars's atmosphere was too thin to support an Earth-like ecology, various depictions of a Martian civilization were popular throughout the 20th century.

Despite various cutbacks after 1966, expenditure on services such as education and health was still much higher as a proportion of national wealth than in 1964.

Despite this, the water quality has still improved, with several historians having called it at various times in the past as an " open sewer ".

Despite the economic recession of the late 2000s, the Tri-Cities area continued to maintain steady growth and a stable economic climate due in large part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which directed funding and jobs to the Hanford site and its various cleanup efforts.

" Despite being the only nationalist candidate, he failed to gain the support of a united far-right, as the various groups either rallied behind other candidates or called for voter abstention.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

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 these objections to restricting immigration, between 1875 – 1888 all Australian colonies enacted legislation which excluded all further Chinese immigration.

Despite being acknowledged as the leading expert on the Australian Constitution, he was never appointed to the High Court of Australia.

Despite a rise in the number of Australians covered by health insurance plans following the end of the Second World War, a large proportion of the Australian population continued to lack coverage for health risks by the early Seventies.

* Despite critical acclaim, the 1958 Australian musical " Lola Montez " was short-lived.

Despite his potential, Bradman was not chosen for the Australian second team to tour New Zealand.

Despite his absence, England employed what were already becoming known as the Bodyline tactics against the Australian batsmen and won an ill-tempered match.

Despite one score of 89 during the series, Gower failed to consistently perform, and thus the Australian team have set this very attacking field.

Despite his position as the most celebrated Australian writer of the time, Lawson was deeply depressed and perpetually poor.

Despite this setback, the offensive continued with minimum delay, and by the end of 6 December Australian besieged and took Bardia, which fell along with 40, 000 more prisoners and 400 guns.

Despite their visual similarities, the Australian Raven and Crow have very different and unique calls.

Despite complaints to have it removed, the Advertising Standards Bureau ruled that it did not contain excessive nudity for its M rating. The Australian Advertising Standards Bureau ruled that it did not infringe any advertising standards.

Despite acquiring almost all the land necessary for the building of the Badgerys Creek airport, and multiple studies and reports commissioned that recommend building the airport, in 1995 new airport leasing legislation was blocked in the Australian Senate, and construction was delayed until after the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Despite repeated requests, Australian, German and U. S. consuls in Kabul had been denied any meetings with Taliban authorities for a week.

Despite his many business successes in early life, he was known as an increasingly eccentric figure in American and Australian history.

Despite military use of the airfield, civil services operated by Qantas Empire Airways and Australian National Airways ( ANA ) commenced from the location in 1944.

Despite its usually peripheral role in Australian politics and its ultimate failure, the Communist Party had an influence far beyond its numbers.

Despite missing out on a wild card spot, the organisers awarded her a wild card for the Australian Open main draw.

Despite adverse publicity, the novel still went on to win the 1995 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.

Despite its rough operation and inefficiency, the BW35 was popular in the North American and Australian markets.

Despite protesting the strenuous nature of the players ' workload in this new era, Chappell found himself leading the team to Pakistan two weeks after the end of the Australian season.

Despite sharing a common name this association had nothing to do with the original United States based National Bicycle Association that was formed in California in 1974 and ironically merged with the National Bicycle League and ceased operations as an independent body in December 1981, the same month and year the Australian namesake was formed.