Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Despite its inauspicious beginning, the CPU thrived.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite its troubles, in 2000 Aon bought Reliance Group's accident and health insurance business, as well as Actuarial Sciences Associates, a compensation and employee benefits consulting company.

Despite its interest in foreign investment to diversify the economy, the Bahamian Government responds to local concerns about foreign competition and tends to protect Bahamian business and labor interests.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite its pro-Western orientation, Botswana participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

Despite its label as an England side, the team which toured South Africa in 1891 contained several Scots.

Despite its popularity with young consumers, it is critically discussed in European media, NGOs, political parties, and market surveillance regarding its nutritional values, choking hazards, and traces of unwanted chemical substances.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite questions of its source, the prayer carries out an important function in the narrative as a whole.

Despite its toxicity, a considerable fraction of petroleum oil entering marine systems is eliminated by the hydrocarbon-degrading activities of microbial communities, in particular by a remarkable recently discovered group of specialists, the so-called hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria ( HCCB ).

Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

Despite the long recognition of its distinction from younger Ordovician rocks and older Precambrian rocks, it was not until 1994 that this time period was internationally ratified.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite discharging considerable volumes of water at times, particularly before the advent of large scale river regulation, the Mouth has always been comparatively small and shallow.

Despite their common efforts, bilateral trade has been comparatively low, valued at US $ 12. 09 million in 2005 ; India's exports to Tajikistan were valued at US $ 6. 2 million and its imports at US $ 5. 89 million.

Despite the comparatively late process of codification, some traditional sources and some Orthodox Jews believe the pronunciation and cantillation derive from the revelation at Sinai, since it is impossible to read the original text without pronunciations and cantillation pauses.

Despite his comparatively short career, Koufax's 2, 396 career strikeouts ranked 7th in history as of his retirement, trailing only Warren Spahn ( 2, 583 ) among left-handers.

Despite its length it has comparatively few concurrencies with any Interstate highways, and those segments are short.

Despite its performance and media buzz generated by articles in Car and Driver magazine, the project was discontinued because of the engine's oil pan having just of ground clearance, necessitated by the comparatively tall engine block.

Despite such successes, kayaking has remained a comparatively low profile sport in New Zealand, making do with less funding, resources and attention than the more successful sports such as rowing.

Despite its comparatively large geographic size, the population of Washington County was sparse and small until the end of the 19th century.

Despite its relatively large physical area, it has a comparatively small population ( of less than 1 million people ).

Despite commercial success, the book was taken up by only a handful of schools, most of which are privately run and located in a comparatively small geographic area of Tokyo.

Despite its distance from the capital Male ' and comparatively small size in population, Meedhoo has ever maintained an importance in Maldivian affairs out of all proportions.

Despite their comparatively primitive weapons to that of the RUF, they had many militarily successful encounters with the RUF.

Despite a comparatively cool critical reception, The Frenz Experiment reached number 19 in the UK album chart, making it their first Top 20 album.

Despite her comparatively weak sound projection, she occasionally performed in dramatic roles ( Sieglinde, Leonore, Elsa ) or comic roles ( Marzelline, Rosalinde ), but she was most highly regarded as Fiordiligi, Countess Almaviva, Pamina, Agathe, Arabella, Ariadne, the Angel Gabriel ( The Creation ), and Countess Madeleine, and in sacred music.

Despite an expansionary fiscal policy, the public debt remained moderate at around 50 percent of GDP as deficits were financed partly by privatization receipts.

Despite most Guatemalans ' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military began to believe that Arbenz represented a Communist threat and supported his overthrow, hoping that a successor government would continue the more moderate reforms started by Arevalo.

Despite his commitment to absolutism, Bodin held some moderate opinions on how government should in practice be carried out.

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

Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($ 93 million at the North American Box Office ).

Despite the moderate tone of Peng's letter, Mao took it as a personal attack against his leadership.

Despite only having released one album to moderate sales, their work has been featured on a number of film soundtracks.

Despite its name, based on a Berber expression meaning " place of the winds ", the city was selected as the capital city for its moderate climate and central location within the country.

Despite a technical edge, the Archimedes only ever met a moderate success beyond the education sector, becoming a ' minority ' platform outside of certain niche markets.

Despite a low to moderate crime rate, the Calvert Police Department issues 300 traffic citations per month on average.

Despite its low rainfall, extreme summer temperatures are marginally more moderate than nearby extremely wet towns like Forks, owing to the coastal fog.

Despite efforts to preserve secrecy, the Germans had received sufficient intelligence to be on moderate alert: an attack on Havrincourt was anticipated, as was the use of tanks.

Despite their occurrence on seacoasts, Ammophila grasses are not particularly tolerant of saline soils ; they can tolerate a salinity of about 15 g / l ( 1. 5 %), which makes them " moderate halophytes ".

Despite a quiet, modest manner, and his politically moderate stance, he was a witty, often scathing speaker.

Despite their intense mutual dislike, and fights over the screenplay, My Little Chickadee was a moderate box office success, but the film outgrossed Fields's previous film, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man ( 1939 ), and the later The Bank Dick ( 1940 ).

Despite a moderate peak of 26 on the Billboard 200 album chart, the album went on to be certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA, for sales exceeding 2 million copies in the US alone.

Despite being panned by critics, The Firm's two albums, The Firm and Mean Business, achieved moderate sales success and produced the radio hits " Radioactive ", " Satisfaction Guaranteed ", and, in the UK, " All The King's Horses ".

Despite the fact that it is only a moderate scramble, even Mount Temple should not be attempted by novices.

Despite this, in 2008, he received a rating of 50 % from the American Conservative Union, one of the most moderate voting records of a Southern Republican for that year.

Despite paying lip service to the campaign, the GLC set a legal rate on schedule, passed by moderate Labour councillors with the support of Conservative opposition members.

Despite the reputation that this fine gave him, among his fellow socialists, Nash was one of the more moderate members of the Labour Party.

Despite his appeal to Southern whites, Nixon parlayed a wide perception as a moderate into wins in other states.

Despite the fact that all five original members were on the recording, and MTV played the video, the album was only a moderate success.

Despite the hurricane's passage near Saint Croix at peak intensity, damage on the small island was only described as " moderate ", although there was widespread flooding and erosion.