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 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 his roots as a labour lawyer, Green was against what he called " special privileges " for unionized labour.

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 being epileptic, Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere and is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.

Despite opposition from the local Ethnic Germans it was subsequently recognized by the Austrian Government as the official flag of Carniola.

Despite the fact that Napoleon was the uncontested winner, he failed to secure a complete victory and the Austrian casualties were only slightly greater than those of the French and Allies.

Despite heavy losses-some 6, 000 infantrymen-in Armand von Nordmann's Advance Guard, the other formations of the Austrian army were virtually intact.

Despite the superior Austrian tactical position, after about two hours of bombardment, the French managed to put out of action most of the Austrian pieces and cause fast-spreading fires in the village of Markgrafneusiedl.

Despite being present in large numbers, the Austrian cavalry failed to launch a massed charge and instead launched several small-scale charges, which produced little effect.

Despite the two Kingdoms being in a personal union under the Austrian and Spanish dynasts, they remained constitutionally separate.

Despite this, after 1848 – 1849 there was no revolt against the Austrian rule.

Despite the diplomatic rupture between Morocco and the Two Sicilies in 1830, and the naval warfare engaged against the Austrian Empire as well as with Spain, then headed by Ferdinand VII, Sultan Abderrahmane lent his support to the Algerian insurgency triggered by Abd El-Kader.

Despite other claims as to the name " Chicken Dance ", the name had come about because an Austrian tour guide translated " Bird Dance / Dance Little Bird " and other similar names, from German to English by calling it " The Chicken Dance " when Norm Edlebeck's Band appeared in Austria in the fall of 1981.

Despite the financial support of the Inner Austrian nobility, the financing of the Military Frontier was not efficient enough.

Despite co-leading the team to the Austrian league title by a large margin, Matthäus would eventually be fired on 12 June 2007 by unanimous decision of the Red Bull Salzburg's board of directors.

Despite the occupation by Austrian troops, Traunstein could be reconstructed.

The Austrian Ministry of Justice's 1995 Report on the Sahaja Yoga school comments that " Despite the altitude, eight months of sunshine a year and outdoor activities and sports in the open, the European children appeared pale which was unexplainable to the visitor ".

Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko circa 1930After living for nine years at the confluence of two rivers in Campuan ( Ubud ), Spies grew weary of his increasingly hectic social life, and retired to the tranquil mountain retreat that was to become the setting of some of his most beautiful and atmospheric paintings, including " Iseh im Morgenlicht 1938 " Despite his desire to escape from a constant stream of visitors, Spies still used to receive guests at Iseh, including the musician Colin McPhee and his wife, anthropologist Jane Belo, the Swiss artist Theo Meier and the Austrian novelist Vicki Baum.

Despite this change in his private political views, he still had strong publicly-known Austrian ties, and no one foresaw that Ernest would immediately side with the better-equipped Prussians upon breakout of the war.

Despite remaining a protected wildlife habitat, the region of Lake Neusiedl, particularly in its Austrian part, draws significant numbers of tourists.