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 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 intensive design efforts led by Ford production executive Charles E. Sorensen, the opening of the plant still saw some mismanagement and bungling, and quality was uneven.

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 the growth of Bayesian research, most undergraduate teaching is still based on frequentist statistics.

Despite the amount of research, there is still doubt about the internal relationship of the languages of Austro-Asiatic.

Despite the differences between systems, the purposes are the same: to guide users of clinical research information on which studies are likely to be most valid.

Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.

Despite decades of research, where these animals go for the rest of the year remains unknown.

Despite decades of experience and economic research, debates about the costs and benefits of minimum wages continue today.

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Despite research having started in the 1950s, no commercial fusion reactor is expected before 2050.

Despite rigorous research and development projects, end-users experience mixed results with handwriting recognition systems.

Despite significant research, prognosis of this disease has changed little over time.

Despite such criticisms, there is some educational quality to the group's activities and they have helped to foster a good deal of valuable research, especially in the area of medieval crafts.

Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.

Despite research on DID including structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography, event-related potential and electroencephalography, no convergent neuroimaging findings have been identified regarding DID, making it difficult to hypothesize a biological basis for DID.

Despite the fact that TM research has moved from " kooky margin to respectable mainstream ", TM's more recent appeal has been attributed to its ability to relax without chemical assistance rather than to the research.

Despite the success of purely electronic speech synthesis, research is still being conducted into mechanical speech synthesizers.

Despite her extensive research, she concluded " it is

Despite inroads made by numerous prominent sinologists, independent scholarly research of the Cultural Revolution is discouraged by the Chinese government.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

Despite extensive research, no trace of documentation of the saying as Murphy's law has been found before 1951 ( see above ).

Despite the insistence of the US Office of Education that there was no money to fund the project, Howe persisted, and insisted the project be classified as a research project.

Despite active research spanning five decades, extensive regulatory actions, and an effective ban on their production since the 1970s, PCBs still persist in the environment and remain a focus of attention.