Despite the harsh discipline, gladiators represented a substantial investment for their lanista and were otherwise well cared for.

Despite this black mark, Tycho also began corresponding with Kepler, starting with a harsh but legitimate critique of Kepler's system ; among a host of objections, Tycho took issue with the use of inaccurate numerical data taken from Copernicus.

Despite affordable and often free land, many arriving newcomers, mostly from Britain and Ireland, found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult, and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south.

Despite its harsh provisions, a RICO-related charge is considered easy to prove in court, as it focuses on patterns of behavior as opposed to criminal acts.

Despite such harsh conditions, this anoxic and sulphidic environment is teeming with microbial life, both chemosynthetic prokaryotes that are primary producers, and a broad diversity of eukaryotic heterotrophs at the next trophic level.

Despite her harsh treatment, O grants permission beforehand for everything that occurs, and her permission is consistently sought.

Despite harsh conditions, the region has supported large populations as far back as 8, 000 BCE.

Despite a harsh clampdown against conspiring Roman Catholics, Mary ( in domestic exile and Elizabeth's prisoner for nearly twenty years ), inspires an earnest attempt to overthrow Elizabeth.

Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.

Despite his harsh business ethics, Scrooge is caring to his family.

A false-color satellite image of Lava Beds National Monument and the surrounding area (: Image: LavaBedsNatlMnmt L7 14jun01. jpg | more information ). Despite harsh, semi-arid conditions, native wildlife has adapted to the environmental constraints present in the region.

Despite its reputation as a pioneering institution for the new, enlightened view of imprisonment, Port Arthur was still in reality as harsh and brutal as other penal settlements.

“ Despite six hundred years of decrees, canons, and increasingly harsh penalties, the Latin clergy still did, more or less illegally, what their Greek counterparts were encouraged to do by law — they lived with their wives and raised families.

Despite its harsh desert environment, Big Bend has an amazing variety and number of plant and animal species.

Despite his personal issues with Fuller, the typically harsh literary critic Edgar Allan Poe wrote of the work as " a book which few women in the country could have written, and no woman in the country would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller ", noting its " independence " and " unmitigated radicalism ".

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) the country's association with Joseph Stalin, Soviet rule in Georgia was particularly harsh during the 1950s and sought to restrict Georgian cultural expression.

Despite the harsh economic conditions, a number of companies continued to build larger and faster ships.

Despite their somewhat high profile, the groups ' habit of provoking the audience, obscene material and harsh erotics guaranteed they would never gain commercial acceptance.

Despite the harsh introduction, Finney pulled Reynolds aside after the performance and recommended that he study composition over the summer.

Despite harsh conditions and infrastructural losses, life returned to Hajnówka quite soon.

Despite harsh criticism by gaming enthusiasts, the GeForce4 MX was a market success.

Despite this harsh news, Charles still coached the U. S. to a fourth place finish in the games.

( Despite his harsh view of her political influence, Saint-Simon admits that he personally liked and admired her.

Despite the rocky soil, shortage of potable water, harsh winters, and constant threat of attack, this group managed to succeed.

Despite his often outspoken views in public, Tremblay's treatment of politics in his plays is subtle.

Despite his horrid treatment at Pozzo's hand however, Lucky remains completely faithful to him.

" 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 his sinister and often inhumane treatment towards his fellows, Pantalone is perceived to be a pivotal part of commedia.

Despite the controversy, dopamine antagonists remain a standard and successful treatment for schizophrenia.

Despite controversy concerning the neurotoxicity of dopamine and L-DOPA, it remains the most common treatment for Parkinson's disease.

Despite the enormous costs and increase in city powers ( opposed by many ) nearly all cities in the developed world instituted good water and sewage treatment facilities.

Despite the therapeutic effectiveness and proven success of CBT, treatment availability is significantly limited by a lack of trained clinicians, poor geographical distribution of knowledgeable professionals, and expense.

Despite these intimidating statistics, research indicates that at least 90 % of these new cases could be reduced if there was proper and vigilant treatment and monitoring of the eyes.

Despite the criticisms of Bacque's methodology, Stephen Ambrose and Brian Loring Villa, the authors of the chapter on German POW deaths, conceded the Allies were motivated in their treatment of captured Germans by disgust and revenge for German atrocities.

Despite his restoration and expansion of the Second Temple, Herod ’ s notorious treatment of his family and of the last Hasmonaeans further eroded his popularity.

Despite its toxicity, Native Americans used very small amounts of clematis as an effective treatment for migraine headaches and nervous disorders.

Despite the availability of effective treatment and advances in medical care, approximately three to five percent of patients who become ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever die from the infection.

Despite his sincerely depicted reverence for Rush, Eakins ' treatment of the human body once again drew criticism.

Despite a number of physicians ( including one from Johns Hopkins University ) recommending that the eye be removed, Dirksen chose treatment and rest and recovered most of his sight in the eye.

Despite this, he was adamantly against differing treatment of races, was fervently anti-slavery, and supported the abolitionist movement in the United States.

Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 2 million lives in 2007, of which about 270, 000 were children.

Despite the higher doses, side-effects during treatment are rare, and vary little according to the condition being treated.

Despite accepted errors in their models, e. g., treatment of clouds, modelers still thought their climate predictions were valid.

Despite the stated serious nature of the situation Osho never sought outside medical treatment during his time in the United States, leading the Immigration and Naturalization Service to believe that he had a preconceived intent to remain there.

Despite being effective against drug resistant parasites, halofantrine is not commonly used in the treatment ( prophylactic or therapeutic ) of malaria due to its high cost.

Despite an absence of scientific evidence, the Autism Research Institute recommends the GFCF diet as a treatment for autism and related conditions.

Despite this another scandal occurred over inhumane treatment of paupers in the Huddersfield workhouse.