Despite a chronic shortage of money, he succeeded in learning Greek by an intensive, day-and-night study of three years, continuously begging his friends to send him books and money for teachers in his letters.

Despite intensive research, the relationship between morphology, chain structure and conductivity is poorly understood yet.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

Despite intensive research and many promising leads, an explanation has so far eluded scientists.

Despite having the most intensive service, the Vine Street line was one of the first Western Region urban branches to close under the Beeching axe.

Despite the greater difficulty, nasotracheal intubation route is preferable to orotracheal intubation in children undergoing intensive care and requiring prolonged intubation because this route allows a more secure fixation of the tube.

Despite an intensive campaign to snare the drummer, Bonham was initially reluctant to join the band.

Despite the intensive military operations, apparently no serious thought was given stripping Madison of his powers and duties temporarily, perhaps partly because his Vice President, Elbridge Gerry, also was in poor health and nearing age 70.

Despite intensive surveys of the Colorado mayflies, this species has not been collected in the past 50 years.

Despite healthy demand for basic X. 25 services and the obvious trend for more demanding bandwidth intensive applications that required investment in more powerful switches a decision to develop BT's own hardware and network applications was made instead.

Despite already being the target of an intensive Gestapo search, she exposed herself to the added danger of helping the Jews.

Despite intensive care, Brito was left paralyzed below the neck.

Despite its comparatively moderate stance towards Communism, the Canadian state continued intensive surveillance of Communists and sharing of intelligence with the US.

Despite over 90 years of intensive exploitation it remains one of the largest known copper resources.

Despite intensive campaigning in the last few days, internal polling found that Sharp had fewer than 150 delegates and was unlikely to even be able to play kingmaker.

Despite an economic depression brought about by the demise of cotton spinning, Royton's population has continued to grow as a result of intensive housing redevelopment which has modernised its former Edwardian districts.

Despite intensive research and development of these systems, very few have been successfully commercialized due to the presence of established technologies.

Despite this intensive cooperation there also existed some kind of rivalry between the END network and the IPCC.

Despite intensive preventive measures, ammunition depots around the world suffer from non-combat fires and explosions-rarely, but mostly with devastating consequences.

Despite the intensive Russian fire, the attack proceeded swiftly, and the whole Swedish line was carried along by the movement.

Despite the most intensive search by Army and Navy planes and surface vessels, no trace of the plane was ever found.

Despite 20 years of intensive protection, this species remains the rarest wading bird in the world.

Despite the official vision of creating an ecologically sustainable economy agriculture is mainly conventional and focusing on cash crops like wheat, sugar beets, rapeseed and an intensive production.

Despite this, in 1962, he moved to Zürich, where he studied Architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970.

Despite a potentially workable design, there were still substantial difficulties in constructing a full-scale engine.

Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor, and adapted after the AMD purchase.

Despite the impressive specification on paper, the design did suffer from some limitations.

Despite the astronauts ' test pilot experience NASA at first envisioned them as " minor participants " during their flights, causing many conflicts between the astronauts and engineers during the spacecraft's design.

Despite his love of Japanese traditional design, this was a stark, modernist concrete structure.

Despite being seen on Seinfeld, the model did not sell as well as expected, although several companies have since adapted the design.

Despite Roland's efforts, their new " 303 clone " was an entirely new product that had almost nothing to do with the original TB-303, with the exception of a few bass samples and the familiar interface design.

Despite its backlit colored screen and ergonomic design, the Game Gear managed just a moderate share of the market.

Despite there having been many versions over the years, somehow the perception of many users is that the current map actually is, more or less, Beck's original version from the 1930s — a testament to the effectiveness of his design.

The structure of the latter event is such that it … justifies a belief that intelligent design is the cause … Despite the fact that the probability of winning three consecutive 1-in-1, 000 games is exactly the same as the probability of winning one 1-in-1, 000, 000, 000 game, the former event … warrants an inference of intelligent design.

Despite the wishes of Jefferson and the President, Hallet went ahead anyway and modified Thornton's design for the East front and created a square central court that projected from the center, with flanking wings which would house the legislative bodies.

Despite this, it was the last time this happened in such a complete way and the house marked the end of a phase in his design thinking as well as being the last of a series of buildings dominated by the colour white.

Despite the amendment lacking the weight of law, the conference report is constantly cited by the Discovery Institute and other ID supporters as providing federal sanction for intelligent design.

Despite the name's similarity to the FRS allocation, the system is a proprietary design, rather than an official U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) allocated service.

Despite the critics, the marquise de Pompadour had an undeniable influence on the flourishing of French arts during the reign of Louis XV, a reign that is often considered the peak of French architecture and interior design ( see: Louis XV style ).

Despite the success of their operation, the partners discovered that the design of the insta-broiler made the unit's heating elements prone to degradation from the drippings of the beef patties.

Despite no widespread regulation, and even with a lack in many cases of national-level regulation, heraldry has remained rather consistent across Europe, where traditions alone have governed the design and use of arms.

Despite his strong long running image as a face, the Canadian Hart was turned heel in an anti-USA gimmick, while Steve Austin became cheered by fans despite efforts to design him as the ultimate heel, making him a tweener.

Despite a deeply cynical response to the logo and mascots of the London Games, this torch design appears to have been well accepted in the UK and internationally.

Despite being highly popular and sporting a successful design, the new ships had also been very expensive.

Despite this, enemy design itself was bemoaned for being " corny and generic ", with notable exceptions to some of the Paper Marios original boss characters.

Despite their simplicity of design, dories were known for their seaworthiness and rowing ease, although this reputation possibly owed more to the skill of the operators than inherent factors in the design.