Despite this setback, Baresi refused to give up his dream and tried out for the Milan youth team, where he was accepted.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Despite his enthusiasm for film, Jarmusch, an avid reader in his youth, had a greater interest in literature, a pursuit in which he was encouraged by his grandmother.

Despite his youth, Osman II soon sought to assert himself as a ruler, and after securing the empire's eastern border by signing a peace treaty ( treaty of Serav ) with Safavid Iran, he personally led the Ottoman invasion of Poland during the Moldavian Magnate Wars.

Despite the British colonialists ' pejorative application of the term, Jamaican youth appropriated it as an ingroup designation.

Despite his criminal status, Bakunin gained great influence with the youth in Russia, and all of Europe.

Despite the incursion of troops into Italy on behalf of the reactionary forces, Louis Bonaparte remained attached to ideal of Italian nationalism which he had embraced in his youth.

Despite his youth he began the push northwest into new territories.

Despite literacy being uncommon in pre-Islamic Arabia, Umar learned to read and write in his youth.

Despite not having its own football team, many youth football clubs such Old Actonians FC, Pitshanger FC ( www. pitchero. com / clubs / pitshangerfc ) and Hanwell Town FC play in local leagues and are popular among the children of the borough.

Despite this reputation, and his wooden speaking style and shy demeanor, Ma is also considered a charismatic figure and is popular among women and youth.

Despite his relative youth and inexperience, Julius Chambers argued the case, because of his intimate knowledge of the facts involved.

Despite his youth, he was quickly accepted amongst the rebbes of Poland.

Despite the growth of men's and women's professional soccer in the United States in the last few decades, by far the largest category of soccer in the United States, at least in terms of participation, is boys and girls youth soccer.

Despite the attitudes of many adults, there is not a consensus among researchers about whether youth subcultures hold different beliefs than adults do.

Despite the nationalism of his youth, Drapeau remained neutral during the 1980 Quebec referendum.

Despite Alia's efforts to proceed with change on a limited, cautious basis, reform from above threatened to turn into reform from below, largely because of the increasingly vocal demands of Albania's youth.

Despite this, they represented a group of youth who rebelled against the government's regimentation of leisure and were unimpressed by the propaganda touting Volksgemeinschaft (" people's community ").

Despite his inexperience and youth, Judau exhibits a high amount of raw Newtype ability, able to frighten off and demoralize Haman Karn, who was reduced to tears despite herself being a formidable Newtype.

Despite his youth, he had demonstrated his strength in several general elections when he had been able to get as many as twenty MPs elected to seats he controlled through his family's wealth and political patronage.

Despite this he is separated from Marygay ( who has remained his last contact with the Earth of his youth ) by UNEF's plans, despite the fact that many of the people who he would command had not yet been born.

Despite his anti-democratic leanings and his allegiance to the Action Française ( he was a member of their youth organization, the Camelots du Roi ), from which he finally departed in 1932, he was able to see the danger in Fascism and Nazism ( which he described as " disgusting monstrousness ") before World War II broke out in Europe.

Despite his great career on the US youth team, he has failed to live up to the hype surrounding him.

Despite his youth, he received an invitation to write the 2009 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad and scored in the 3rd division.

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.