Despite its roots, savate is a relatively safe sport to learn.

Despite being surrounded by Anglo-Saxon Common Law territories, Louisiana's civil code has kept its Roman roots, and some of its aspects feature influences by the Napoleonic Code, but remains based more on Roman and Spanish civil traditions.

Despite this common habitat, creosote bush roots have been found to produce chemicals that inhibit the growth of burro bush roots, and much of their relationship is currently unexplained.

Despite its occurrence at the height of World War I, the roots of the February Revolution traced much further back in time.

( Despite its aristocratic French roots, Creole cuisine does not include Garde Manger or other extremely lavish styles of the Classical Paris cuisine.

Despite its recent adoption, it has old roots.

Despite invasions in its recent history it has succeeded in organically assimilating incoming influences, blunting their wills for imperialistic hegemony and maintaining its strong roots and culture.

Despite the form's Spanish roots ( confirmed by references in Spanish literature of the period ), the first written examples of passacaglias are found in an Italian source dated 1606.

Despite international academic success, he remained proud of his Cornish roots.

Despite this apparent dislike, the narrator betrays his roots, declaring that he is " all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors ".

Despite belonging to the Liberal International, the Centre Party does not play quite the same role in Finnish politics as do Liberal parties in other countries because it evolved from agrarian roots.

According to Webster's New International Dictionary, 1993, a person who is a native or resident of Connecticut is a " Connecticuter ", although many prefer " Connecticutian " or the slightly shorter " Connecticite "; Despite Webster's ( West Hartford ) Connecticut roots, none of these are commonly used or even recognized by residents, who prefer the nickname " Nutmegger ", which is not a demonym, and more often no nickname or demonyn, simply stating, " I'm from Connecticut ".

Despite the ascetic roots of the Ṣafavid dynasty and the religious injunctions restricting the pleasures lawful to the faithful, the art of Abbas ' time denotes a certain relaxation of the strictures.

Despite his roots in the Austrian school he criticized the " penny pinching, ' not-one-heller-more-policies '" of the prominent Austrian economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk when the latter was Austrian Minister of Finance and laid much of the blame for Austria's economic backwardness on Böhm-Bawerk's unwillingness to spend heavily on public works projects.

Despite the heavy Sardinian influences ( especially in the vocabulary and phonetics ), it still keeps its Tuscan roots, which closely relate it to Gallurese.

Despite the FK Allstars band having its roots in hip hop, there are elements of reggae, soul, funk and jazz blended in.

Despite Sedaka's classical roots, because of Sedaka's " other " life as a pop star, he was disqualified by the USSR as the US entrant for the competition.

Despite its run during the Vietnam War, a time of " profound disillusionment with war and the military ," Gomer Pyle remained popular because it avoided war-related themes and instead focused on the show's rural roots and the relationship between Pyle and Sgt.

Despite various aforementioned classic roots, their music is considered contemporary.

Despite all of the differences in the styles of bassline, most styles of popular music, the bass guitarist fulfills a similar role: anchoring the harmonic framework ( often by emphasizing the roots of the chord progression ) and laying down the beat ( in collaboration with the drummer ).

Despite its emphasis on internationalism and innovation the school maintains strong roots with the local community and maintains some of its historical traditions such as the Sevenoaks Festival and the lunchtime music recitals, which date back to the 1960s.

Despite the press campaign against Germans, Germanophobic feelings did not develop in Russia to any widespread extent, and died out, due to the Imperial family's German roots and the presence of many German names in the Russian political elite.

Despite its roots as a building society specialising in home and consumer lending, today the Bank provides funding to a variety of specialist industries and market segments including commercial property construction and development, invoice discounting, interest rate hedging, foreign exchange, trade finance and automotive finance ( formerly the Barclay Bank Business ).

Despite this, unions were formed and began to acquire political power, eventually resulting in a body of labour law that not only legalized organizing efforts, but codified the relationship between employers and those employees organized into unions.

Despite this, Bermuda's 17th Century agricultural economy did not become dependent on slavery as, unlike in the plantation economies that developed in English colonies in the southeast region of North America and in the West Indies, the system of indentured servitude, which lasted in Bermuda until 1684, ensured a large supply of cheap labour.

Despite the multitude of slaves, hired labour was often needed, especially at harvest.

Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.

Despite its name, the JLP is a centre-right, conservative party, albeit one with ties to the Jamaican labour movement.

Despite his considerable wealth, he pays his workers poorly, and it is hinted that he once employed slave labour in Africa.

Despite this, Tikhonov admitted to economic " shortcomings " and acknowledged the ongoing " food problem "; other topics for discussion were the need to save energy resources, boost labour productivity and to improve the quality of Soviet produced goods.

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 the concept of splitting of tanks into infantry and cruiser roles being an instance of the general economic principle of division of labour in mechanization, during World War II its application in mechanized warfare proved to be hugely inefficient in terms of technical development, production, maintenance, logistics, and — worst of all — tactical flexibility.

Despite campaigning heavily against the government's " socialism ", it did not propose to undo the Liberal Party's labour and welfare reforms.

Despite a move of yards, Yarrows outgrew its London site and this and the cost of land and labour in London led to a second move to what was at that time a greenfield site at Scotstoun in the west of Glasgow, beginning in 1906.

Despite this, professional and skilled labour is fast disappearing from the country in a similar manner to East Germany before the Berlin Wall in an ironic reversal of the immigration controversies of the mid-to late 1970s in the UK.

Despite his enthusiasm for music, his parents expected him to become a lawyer.

Despite the revelations in O ' Brian's essay, O ' Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy through O ' Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy disputes this, although he confirms that O ' Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz, where he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy.

Despite Downey's lawyer, John Stewart Holden, assembling for his client's 1999 defense the same team of lawyers that successfully defended O. J.

Despite being a lawyer by trade with little military experience, Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonell led a second attempt, together with Williams, to retake the redan.

Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.

Despite Justice King's repeated warnings to Kunstler to " be careful, sir ", Kunstler quickly became " the star of the trial, the man the jurors watch most attentively, and the lawyer whose voice carries most forcefully ".

Despite being a lifelong New Yorker ( and an Actors Studio member of long standing ), James has been cast as a Southerner in many of his roles, like his appearances in the James Bond films, and also powerful Houston lawyer Striker Bellman in the daytime soap opera Texas from 1981 – 82.

Despite obtaining a law degree, a person is only a lawyer in Canada if they have been admitted to the bar governing the profession in his or her province.

Despite his losses, the personable young lawyer and preacher attracted not only black voters but liberal whites as well.

Despite this, Plowden continued in the Queen's employ in his capacity as a lawyer.

Despite the victim of the alleged attack denying that it was Franco, two magazines then contacted Franco's lawyer to alert them that they might run stories suggesting his involvement, but were unable to as at least part of their stories were fabricated.

Despite being a lawyer by trade with little military experience, Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonell, along with Captain John Williams of the 49th Foot, led a second attempt to retake the Redan, one that was very nearly successful.

Despite his prior career, Giraldo rejected that persona and very rarely discussed his days as a lawyer.

*" In the Lyons Den: Despite his extremism, Kirk Lyons, a white supremacist lawyer whose clients have been a ' Who's Who ' of the radical right, is becoming the attorney for the neo-Confederate movement ", SPLC, Summer 2000

Despite difficulties with the Inquisition on account of his Jewish descent, Rojas was a successful lawyer and became mayor of Talavera de la Reina, where he lived for the last three decades of his life.