Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.

Despite the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.

Despite its being a non-metric unit, a number of metric countries have used this unit for its limited range of application.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite very limited capabilities ( 98 bytes of instruction memory and about 19 stack and addressable registers ), people managed to write all kinds of programs for them, including adventure games and libraries of calculus-related functions for engineers.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite this, there is limited export of products produced or processed industrially.

Despite those hopes, however, usable land has always been severely limited.

Despite the prescribed safety of GET requests, in practice their handling by the server is not technically limited in any way.

Despite the absence of conditional jumps, the Z3 was a Turing complete computer ( ignoring the fact that no physical computer can be truly Turing complete because of limited storage size ).

Despite his limited singing ability, he had a hit song with " Wand ' rin ' Star ".

Despite his physicians ' predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk again, but from that point on he was in constant pain and was severely limited in his ability to move.

Despite NeXT's limited commercial success, the company had a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

Despite having a limited range, by the end of LeMay ’ s command in 1957, the B-47 had become the backbone of SAC, comprising over half of its total aircraft and eighty percent of its bomber capacity.

Despite its elegance, Montague grammar was limited by the context-dependent variability in word sense, and led to several attempts at incorporating context, such as:

Despite excitement in Japan over Virtua Fighter 3 in arcades, the limited hardware capabilities of the Sega Saturn led Sega to delay a console release.

Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

Despite a modest increase in specific impulse, implementation is limited due to the increased hazards of the high-explosive additives.

Despite her limited education, she read as much of the scientific literature as she could obtain, and often, laboriously hand-copied papers borrowed from others.

Despite being directly responsible for the camp's operations, Stangl limited his contact with Jewish prisoners as much as possible.

Despite the limited diversity of species, the number of individuals is large.

Despite having a loyal customer base ( primarily musicians and audio enthusiasts ), MiniDisc met with only limited success.

Despite the seaside location, the tourist appeal of Kerch today is limited because of the industrial character of the city and associated pollution.

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 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.