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 promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

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

Despite these promising observations, randomized clinical trials have consistently shown lack of benefit to the role of vitamin E supplements in heart disease.

Despite its promising appearance and engineering novelty the Pipit did not fly as well as expected, the elevator being criticised as heavy while the rudder was weak and the type was longitudinally unstable.

Despite this incident and a lack of food, Grenville decided to leave Ralph Lane and 107 men to establish the colony at the north end of Roanoke Island, promising to return in April 1586 with more men and fresh supplies.

Despite signing up some promising talent ( notably Arthur Hodgson and the Kneecaps and the ' French Beach Boys ,' Les Garçons de la Plage ), poor financial management ( mainly on the part of Stig O ' Hara's financial planner, Ron Decline ) finally led to the label's ultimate failure.

Despite Moline's small size, Deere saw several promising elements there: Moline's dam and coal deposits would provide a good source of power ; Moline was near the other well-established towns of Stephenson ( later renamed Rock Island ) in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa ; and Moline's access to the river would make shipping goods cost-efficient.

Despite the Prussians ’ reluctance, Paul decided to move ahead with the war, promising 60, 000 men to support Austria in Italy and 45, 000 men to help England in North Germany and the Netherlands.

Despite this, Railtrack made what would prove to be the fatal mistake of not properly assessing the technical viability and cost of implementing moving block prior to promising the speed increase to Virgin and the government.

Despite promising beginning, Władysław failed to secure enough funds for the fleet creation ; the ships were gone – sunk, or stolen – by the 1640s.

Despite its promising start, however, ratings for Millennium after the pilot remained consistently low, and it was cancelled after three seasons.

Despite a promising young roster, the Stars were more or less an afterthought in a market whose first choices were the Los Angeles Lakers and UCLA Bruins ; they only averaged 2, 500 fans per game.

Despite a promising start to the following season, he found it tiring to travel the 100 + miles from his Berkshire home to the Midlands on an almost daily basis, and in December 1997 moved to Division One rivals Queens Park Rangers.

Despite the introduction of the intermediate 7. 9mm Kurz cartridge promoted by the Heer ( developed for the promising MP 43 assault rifle ), the Luftwaffe favored the long-range potential of the standard 7. 92 × 57mm Mauser rifle round and this caliber was one of the main design prerequisites.

Despite his promising debut, the young Kuniyoshi failed to produce many works between 1818 and 1827, probably due to a lack of commissions from publishers, and the competition of other artists within the Utagawa School ( Utagawa-ryū ).

Despite a promising early start, a run of bad results over the winter period saw the club slip down the table, and in March 2004 Brian Talbot left the club after seven years as manager.

Despite promising performances during the first half of the 1977 / 78 season, Harry Griffiths resigned as Swansea City's manager in February 1978, doubting his own ability to take the club any further.

Despite the glut of coffee producers in the market today, coffee production in Peru is still promising.

Despite only basing their promotion on the former company, XWA inherited the physical British Heavyweight and Flyweight Championship belts from FWA and continued to use them, promising to also resurrect the FWA Tag Team Championship, though they never would.

Despite new sponsorship from Trust computers and the addition of " Quick " Nick Heidfeld and a promising young rookie in Timo Glock for 2004, Jordan was in serious trouble.

Despite this incident and the lack of food, Grenville decided to leave Ralph Lane and 107 men to establish the colony on the north end of Roanoke Island, promising to return in April 1586 with more men and fresh supplies.

Despite its promising beginnings this front-engined car was soon made obsolete by mid-engined cars.

Despite the promising 2007 World Cup, Scotland opened their 2008 Six Nations campaign losing 27 – 6 to France at home.