Despite this, Congo's investment climate is not considered favorable, offering few meaningful incentives.

Despite receiving a favorable review from William Carlos Williams in 1942, the novel's highly experimental style, limited release, and anti-war stance would guarantee it a very limited audience.

Despite receiving an award from Action for Children's Television, favorable reviews, and a ranking in Time magazine's " Best of ' 87 " feature, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures was canceled by CBS following the controversy.

Despite the success of " I Love You ", and despite favorable reviews, the subsequent album, named after their hit single and released in July 1968, only reached No. 138 on the Billboard charts.

Despite the favorable mention of James the Just, generally considered a " pro-circumcision " Christian, the Gospel of Thomas also dismisses circumcision:

Despite the favorable reception, the film was not given a proper theatrical release due to the bankruptcy of its distributor.

Despite being embarrassed by the end results, Hellhammer shipped their demo to a number of heavy metal magazines, such as Great Britain's Metal Forces ; critical response toward them was generally favorable.

Despite the favorable critiques, the album sold far less than the previous two, not reaching the top 10 and not receiving any certification.

Despite favorable reviews, the album did not match the sales of Sweet Oblivion.

" Despite the dissent's favorable attitude toward state medical marijuana policies, federal law still controls, and for medical marijuana to be considered legal, change must be effected through legislation by Congress.

Despite favorable reviews, the album did not match the sales of Superunknown.

Despite his favorable attitude towards the poor, he was himself attacked by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and other socialists for lacking positive aims.

Despite the loyalty of returning holidaymakers, resorts such as Blackpool have struggled to compete against the favorable weather of Southern European alternatives.

Despite the low quality of many of the troops manning them, the fortifications protecting Aachen and the Ruhr were a formidable obstacle to the progress of American forces, who saw a breakthrough in this sector as crucial, as the terrain behind Aachen was generally flat, and therefore highly favorable to the motorized Allied armies.

Despite the favorable situation, the Manchus pushed for peace negotiations, probably because Hong Taiji was concerned about the home defence.

Despite a favorable national Republican tide that won North Carolina for George W. Bush, Democrat Mike Easley won by 52 % to 46 %, and succeeded fellow Democrat Jim Hunt as Governor.

Despite favorable reviews, the album was released with almost no promotion at all ; it is now sought after as a collector's item and fetches fairly high prices on sites like Amazon. com and eBay.

Although the film received only slightly favorable reviews, Darnell's performance was received positively, with one critic saying: " Despite her apparent youth, turns in an outstanding performance when playing with popular players.

Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the Central Valley, inhabitants of the valley who were unfamiliar with its natural rainfall patterns and started to practice intense irrigated agriculture on the arid land soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.

Despite favorable conditions for strengthening, the hurricane weakened as it turned to an eastward drift, possibly due to the upwelling of cooler waters.

Despite consistently favorable reviews, the album did not match the commercial success of Sweet Oblivion.

Despite this toughness, the sporocarps will open readily in water if conditions are favorable, and specimens have been successfully germinated after being stored for more than 130 years.

Despite an apparently favorable environment, Danielle continued to slowly weaken, as the forecast for decreasing wind shear did not quickly materialize.

Despite the less than favorable reviews, Tenchi in Tokyo did receive positive acknowledgement.

Despite their negative comments for Waluigi, GameDaily ranked him in the 10th slot on GameDaily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games list ; the site explained that " he gets the shaft worse than Luigi, and should at least get his own puzzle game ".

Despite these comments, it is important to note that the ' bounce ' described is characteristic of many African American vernacular dance forms.

Despite his sometimes acerbic comments on Wagner, Claude Debussy utilised leitmotifs in his opera Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1902 ).

Despite some critics ' comments, all of the laughter in Coupling was from a genuine live studio audience.

Despite the explicit difference between the noun and adjective, there have been comments on the comparison.

Despite the critics ' comments on its crudeness and lack of depth, it proved to be one of the most popular novels of the Romantic Period.

Despite this imagery, and despite comments made by backing vocalist Andrea Meyer styling herself the band's " satanic advisor ", the album's lyrics make scant mention of Satan or Satanism.

Despite less than enthusiastic comments from critics, the show played to full houses for virtually every performance.

Despite earlier comments that the new system would allow staff more time on the shop floor serving customers, 200 staff were made redundant by the process.

Despite what Air America stated, Randi Rhodes contended that she was not suspended for comments made about Hillary Clinton.

Despite his controversial public comments, Yosef has long been a distinguished rabbinical authority advocating peace negotiations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has done so since the late 1980s.

Despite Sparrow's comments that Bootstrap was " a good man ," Will remains deeply conflicted over his new-found lineage.

Despite these comments, Marx has been criticised strongly for adding the " socially necessary " qualification to labour time by the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State and Utopia, for whom it is an unjustified ' bolt-on ' aspect of Marx's theory.

" Despite such comments, he denied that he was a racist.

Despite giving the album an unusually low grade, Robert Christgau's review consisted purely of praise, with comments such as " This band's defenders [...] claim this as an improvement.

Despite the authors ' comments that the findings of the paper " do not imply that moral or legal definitions of or views on behaviors currently classified as CSA " should be changed, it caught the attention of, and was used by, advocates for pedophilia.

Despite this, a number of editorials intend to give serious critical comments on both domestic and international issues.

Despite being hampered by a three-speed gearbox, it still drew favourable comments from Wheels: " We achieved a time of 14. 8 seconds for the quarter mile — on smoother surfaces the Charger galloped away so easily that a best of 14. 5 seconds is within reach ".

Despite their own positions against immigration, Glistrup's comments in the media had become so extreme that they felt forced to leave the party.

The Austrian Ministry of Justice's 1995 Report on the Sahaja Yoga school comments that " Despite the altitude, eight months of sunshine a year and outdoor activities and sports in the open, the European children appeared pale which was unexplainable to the visitor ".

Although the prior comments seem to paint the game as visually crude and dull, Tyler Minarik of PlayStation Lifestyle has a differing opinion stating in his review " Despite Sands of Time having some of the best narrative and plot points in the series, the next entry, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within makes large improvements in just about every other facet of the game.

Despite Hill's comments, he endured continued criticism by the British media after the poor performance ; speculation brewed that Williams were going to replace him with Frentzen for the 1996 season.

Despite captain John Lloyd admitting that the final tie was 50 / 50 in a televised interview by Sue Barker, his comments and further comments by LTA Chief Executive Roger Draper regarding a lack of a number two player suggests that this could be the last time Bogdanovic will represent his country in a Davis Cup tie.