Despite periodic repression, the Brotherhood has become one of the most influential movements in the Islamic world, particularly in the Arab world.

Despite their ancient pedigree, the Julii Caesares were not especially politically influential.

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 his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Despite the outpouring of antagonistic replies to The Age of Reason, some scholars have argued that Constantin Volney's deistic The Ruins ( translations of excerpts from the French original appeared in radical papers such as Thomas Spence's Pig's Meat and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Politics for the People ) was actually more influential than The Age of Reason.

Despite their prominence, Rondelet's De Piscibus Marinum is regarded as the most influential, identifying 244 species of fish.

Despite the short duration of the Qin Dynasty, it was very influential on the structure of future dynasties.

Despite making fewer appearances in the 1996 – 97 season, Bergkamp was more influential in the first team, creating 13 assists.

Despite this, his recognition of group defences in the " Basic Assumption Group ", has been highly influential.

Despite skepticism from other investigators, O ' Keefe and his co-workers, especially Lynn Nadel, continued to investigate this question, in a line of work that eventually led to their very influential 1978 book The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.

Despite its relatively low circulation in Israel, Haaretz is considered Israel's most influential daily newspaper.

Despite these negatives, he is considered an architect and keeper of Chinese culture, history, and statecraft and an influential ruler in Chinese history.

Despite being unpopular with critics in their heyday, Stone Temple Pilots have proved to be a popular and influential act.

Despite the band's short tenure and limited output it was one of the most influential of its era, earning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognition and spawning fellow Hall honorees Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Poco, as well as popular acts Loggins and Messina and Crazy Horse.

Despite debates over its legal status, the Petition of Right was highly influential.

Despite meeting with influential politicians such as Lamartine and Lamennais, the France of Louis-Philippe also remained neutral.

Despite these measures, the society remained a highly influential force in Parisian politics.

Despite its limited run, it is regarded as one of the most groundbreaking and influential commercials of the 2000s, and received more awards from the television and advertising industries than any commercial in history.

Despite a short life, his career was highly influential, especially through its impact on Robert Burns.

Despite his limited number of years in public service, Fisher Ames ranks as one of the more influential figures of his era.

Despite the creation of the empire through war, the reign is remembered for its very influential style of Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandra Gupta II.

Despite this ambiguity, there does seem to be emerging some definition to what constitutes the contemporary visionary art ' scene ' and which artists can be considered especially influential.

Despite being found guilty of bribery in 1983, Tanaka in the early-to-mid-1980s remained a power behind the scenes through his control of the party's informal apparatus, and he continued as an influential adviser to the more internationally minded Nakasone.

Despite denunciation from traditionalists in the realm of design, Emigre became influential in the field.

Despite being widely influential within cybernetics, systems theory and, more recently, complex systems, Ashby is not as well known as many of the notable scientists his work influenced, including Herbert A. Simon, Norbert Wiener, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Stafford Beer, and Stuart Kauffman.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite the critical role that dendrites play in the computational tendencies of neurons, very little is known about the process by which dendrites orient themselves in vivo and are compelled to create the intricate branching pattern unique to each specific neuronal class.

Despite Bismarck's attempts to play the role of an " honest broker " at the Congress of Berlin, Russo-German relations deteriorated following the conference.

Despite the sexes ' equal educational attainments, and despite a society where sexual differentiation played a smaller role than it did in many other countries, occupational segregation in Finland was marked.

Despite these changes the highlands remained very poor and traditional, with few connections to the uplift of the Scottish Enlightenment and little role in the Industrial Revolution.

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Despite Kemp's official role, his real influence as an author was on the grammatical structure of the plank on tax hikes.

Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France ( 1942 – 44 ), Hungary ( 1944 – 45 ), Slovakia, Italy ( after 1943 ), and the Balkans.

Despite its small proportions, Luxembourg often played an intermediary role between larger countries.

Despite the wide variety among Christian liturgies, texts from the New Testament play a role in almost all forms of Christian worship.

Despite 1983 constitutional amendments, which appeared to proscribe a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Forces ( PDF ), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life behind a facade of civilian government.

Despite Romania ` s change of sides its role in the defeat of Nazi Germany was not recognized by the Paris Peace Conference of 1947.

Despite the new role of megacorporations, many nations still hold considerable sway through economic, social and military means.

Despite these obstacles, the film's war footage was stunning and James Coburn, in the lead role of Rolf Steiner, gave one of the finest performances of his career.

Despite the claims of many classical theorists and sociologists immediately after World War II, many contemporary theorists have critiqued secularisation thesis, arguing that religion has continued to play a vital role in the lives of individuals worldwide.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

Despite the central role played by Canadian John Humphrey, the Canadian Government at first abstained from voting on the Declaration's draft, but later voted in favour of the final draft in the General Assembly.

Despite her world famous role, Smith is rarely recognized in public, which she does not mind, saying " it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall ; people never recognise me solely from my voice.

Despite the newly elevated role of courts in Chinese society, there still remains some consensus about defects in China ’ s legal system in regards to progressing towards the rule of law.

Despite the great strides in knowledge of these molecules and their role in bloodfeeding achieved recently, scientists still cannot ascribe functions to more than half of the molecules found in arthropod saliva.

Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing inter-party debate on the pace of market reforms.

Despite this perception of being able to perform effortlessly, acquaintances of Tracy said that he would carefully prepare for each role.

Despite the actresses ' earlier tensions, Crawford suggested Bette Davis for the role of Jane.

Despite confirming her return for Wrath of the Titans in September 2010, Arterton did not reprise her role for unknown reasons.

Despite that, Frowde became vital to OUP's growth, adding new lines of books to the business, presiding over the massive publication of the Revised Version of the New Testament in 1881 and playing a key role in setting up the Press's first office outside Britain, in New York in 1896.