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 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, the number ends with another example of Sullivan's counterpoint, with the chorus singing the second melody of the piece (" Let us gaily tread the measure ") while the orchestra plays the first (" Climbing over rocky mountain ").

Despite this, her career evolved slowly, taking second billing for a number of years but with help in her stage presentation from the American dancer, Loie Fuller, she eventually became a singing star.

Despite his somewhat authoritarian attitude, he cares about the bears as if they were his children ... although he once bamboozled them into cleaning up the park for him ( so that he could nap in a hammock ) by singing the jazzy ditty " In the Bag ":

Despite their San Francisco Bay Area origins, they positioned themselves as Southern rock stylists, singing about bayous, the Mississippi River, catfish, and other popular elements of Southern iconography.

Despite her singing ability, she concentrated on her acting career on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air the next few years.

Despite being known for his powerful singing voice, Dio claimed never to have taken any vocal training.

Despite these failures, Francis was hired to record the vocals for Tuesday Weld's " singing " scenes in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock, and for Freda Holloway in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll movie Jamboree.

Despite the fact that a choir of singers were portrayed in the video, the actual studio singing was exclusively Boni on all tracks, excluding the male voices.

Despite singing new material at several live shows earlier in the year, it was announced, on May 24, 2010 by Rimes via her Twitter account, that her new studio album would be a cover album of country songs, titled Lady & Gentlemen.

Despite his history of drinking and fighting, York attended church regularly and often led the hymn singing.

Despite its popularity, the genre of modern laïká ( especially laïkο-pop ) has come under scrutiny for " featuring musical clichés, average singing voices and slogan-like lyrics " and for " being a hybrid, neither laïkó, nor pop ".

Despite, achieving great prominence already, Čolić continued appearing at the occasional festival such as the Zagreb one in 1976 where surprisingly he finished in fourth place singing " Ti si bila, uvijek bila ".

Despite having toured as a child singer in Africa she didn't do the singing for Jem.

Despite his leap to fame, Béart's singing career was soon swamped by the rising tide of American rock and roll.

Despite the great fanfare surrounding her return to the Met in early 1951, and her success in resuming her roles there, Flagstad decided that it would be her final year singing Wagner on the stage.

Despite the mixed reviews, some critics praised Spacey's performance, largely due to his decision to use his own singing voice.

Despite losing several bookings during that period, Davis remained active by singing with a number of religious ministries and spent an extensive period evangelizing in Africa where she was royally treated.

Despite this, Fyleman had a good singing voice, and therefore decided to study music.

Despite the singing, Murat Batmaz of Sea of ​​ Tranquility magazine said that the song " Black Rose Immortal " " ends with one of Akerfeldt's most violent and longest screams in his career which could only be rivaled by his guesting on Edge of Sanity's Crimson album ", and that Opeth created a " dark atmosphere on this album, which is simply unique.

Despite not having a natural singing voice, Aldridge won the competition and in the process raised money for his nominated charity Temple Street Children's Hospital.

Despite her parents disapproval of a career in singing, Rosy Hovannisian, later Rosy Bedrossian continued on with her passion and eventually, took the stage name Rosy Armen and had success also singing next to established French music stars in France.

Despite her skills as a singer she has never taken singing lessons.

CD 1, entitled " A Pesar De Las Heridas " (" Despite All Wounds ") features Sahrawi women ( including figures as Mariem Hassan or Aziza Brahim ) singing Haul songs, while in CD 2, entitled " Sáhara Mi Tierra " (" Sahara My Land "), the lyrics are mostly interpreted by men, including guitarist Nayim Alal and Mahfoud Aliyen.