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 ZZ Top's popularity and success in the 1970s, it wasn't until the 1980s that they started winning major awards and honors.

Despite his melancholic mood, Vasco da Gama was given a hero's welcome, and showered with honors, including a triumphal procession and public festivities.

Despite suggestions by eunuchs to have her only buried as an imperial consort and not be honored as Emperor Huan's wife, Emperor Ling had her buried with honors due an empress dowager, with Emperor Huan.

Despite the injury he still managed to earn American League Player of the Month honors in September (. 337, 10 hr, 26 rbi ) and was the Rangers Player of the Month in both August and September.

Despite not sponsoring conference schedules in team sports ( except football ), the league began awarding " Player of the Week " honors to student-athletes in every sport during the 2008-09 season.

Despite losing his last two races, tying Citation's race record was enough to earn him his second straight Champion Older Male and Horse of the Year honors.

Despite earlier honors, Müller was not readmitted to the East German Writers ' Association until 1988, shortly before the end of the GDR.

Despite this tragedy, the 321st Bomb Wing, under the direction of its new commander, Colonel Robert W. Strong, Jr., won the top honors of the meet, including the coveted Fairchild and McCoy trophies, distinguishing the 321st as the top B-47 Wing in SAC.

Despite a slight drop in production during his junior season, in which Winslow caught 60 passes for 605 yards and 1 touchdown, he won the John Mackey Award as the nation's best collegiate tight end, and was he was recognized as a unanimous first-team All-American, after receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press and other national selector organizations.

Despite a thirteenth-place points finish in points, Shepherd was runner-up to Ron Bouchard for Winston Cup Rookie of the Year honors.

Despite his honors, Woodfill-on a sergeant's salary-struggled to pay his bills and to pay off the mortgage on his Fort Thomas home.

Despite the team's near collapses due to financial concerns, Vanbiesbrouck led the Oilers to a league championship and shared the league's MVP honors.

Despite a limited release hampered by economic problems suffered by the production company the film played for months without advertising and earned many honors.

Despite her abbreviated schedule, she finished runner-up to Ricky Craven for Rookie of the Year honors.

Despite the early playoff exit, Rutigliano received NFL Coach of the Year honors for the 1980 season.

" Despite this, Avicenna " correctly wrote on the cardiac cycles and valvular function ", and " had a vision of blood circulation " in his Treatise on Pulse.

Despite its relatively low circulation in Israel, Haaretz is considered Israel's most influential daily newspaper.

Despite the fact that in 1974 If < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s circulation had exceeded Galaxy < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s for the first time, it was Galaxy that was retained, and If was merged with it beginning with the January 1975 issue.

Despite the large numbers of pamphlets and broadsheets in circulation, literacy rates were still poor.

Despite a conservative political climate in the United States, the magazine quickly a critical mass of subscribers, with its paid circulation rising to 2, 500 in 1950 and to 6, 000 in 1954.

Despite cultural taboos on such material, circulation of erotic literature was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, as the costs of producing individual manuscripts limited distribution to a very small group of readers.

Despite derision from her critics, she took the paper's circulation up to 270, 460, an increase of 11. 6 per cent.

Despite the fact it increases circulation to the kidneys, it does not help kidney function, and is not recommended for kidney disease.

Despite having achieved a circulation of 670, 000 Talk magazine's publication was abruptly halted in January 2002 in the wake of the advertising recession following the September 11, 2001 attacks and the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center.

Despite the name, its main circulation area is the Auckland region.

Despite its intensification and well-organized satellite appearance, the circulation remained very poorly defined.

" Despite its influence, sales have dropped in recent years: in the first six months of 2007, Loaded recorded a 35 % drop in circulation compared to the first half of 2006.

Despite its name it was also distributed in Brighton and had a combined circulation, in the two cities of around 20, 000 when it folded.

Despite the success of Thompson and Brimsek, both of whom were elected to the Hall of Fame and wore uniform number 1, the Bruins are the only one of the NHL's " Original Six " teams not to have retired the number ( or, in the case of the Toronto Maple Leafs, hung banners indicating it is an " Honoured Number " while leaving it in circulation ).

Despite having the second highest daily circulation of an American newspaper, The Daily Mirror closed on October 16, 1963, after the 114-day 1962 – 63 New York City newspaper strike.

Despite Devika Rani, Sashadhar Mukherjee, and Ashok Kumar attempting to create a working relationship which involved alternating production of major films between the two rival production camps, the relationship proved untenable and was fraught with allegations of sabotage, dramatic ego clashes, in-fighting, and the relentless circulation of malicious rumors.

Despite a last-ditch effort to start an online distribution through Compuserve, which was one of the earliest Internet providers, the declining circulation was enough for The National to announce it was ceasing publication.

Despite a modest daily circulation of approximately 3, 000 copies, The Spectator was widely read ; Joseph Addison estimated that each number was read by 60, 000 Londoners, about a tenth of the capital's population at the time.

Despite political struggles, the newspaper grew to 12 pages ( 22 – 24 pages on Saturday ) and circulation of 30, 000 by 1935, at times competing with official Lietuvos aidas in popularity.

Despite their wide circulation, McGill earned no royalties from his designs ; in his will, his estate was valued at just £ 735.