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 this seeming approval, the financiers only approved a production budget of $ 6 million, forcing the crew to hire most of the cast playing the Hickory basketball team and many of the extras from the local community around New Richmond.

Despite not possessing the four-octave range boasted by Kiske, Deris's vocal similarity to Kai Hansen, his enthusiasm, his strong songwriting skills, the return of the " classic " Helloween sound in songs such as " Where the Rain Grows " and " The Game Is On ", and the seeming rejuvenation of Weikath and Grapow seemed to strike a chord with the fans.

Despite these seeming difficulties, Xanth was colonized in several waves by groups of invaders and nomads from Mundania over the course of several centuries.

Despite this seeming willingness to avoid change, Hayes became one of the first major college head coaches to recruit African-American players, including Jim Parker, who played both offensive and defensive tackle on Hayes ' first national championship team in 1954.

Despite the setbacks, Toivonen remained the title favourite with no driver seeming able to match his pace.

Despite being an Anglophile he suspected the British coveted Brazil and he was alarmed by the seeming ease by which they had taken Havana and Manila from Spain in 1762.

Despite it initially seeming pivotal to New Labour's reform of policing and the antecedent of a new race equality agenda, it has remained a contested concept that has been critiqued by multiple constituencies.

Despite the seeming spontaneity of the swap, it was undoubtedly planned ( at least on the part of Davies and the producers ), as evidenced by the fact that Davies, in turn, produced his own set of questions on loose-leaf paper ( most of which he directed at Fry ), and also by the photographs and obvious-answer graphics which accompanied Davies ' questions.

Despite seeming to be a borrowed French phrase, the expression cul-de-sac originated in England during the period when French was spoken by the English aristocracy.

Despite at first seeming poised to continue, the next morning Anthony Weiner conceded the election to Fernando Ferrer.

Despite the seeming high tension between him and Zero, Zero called him " the best lieutenant Space City has.

Despite seeming cold and distant, Mimi is not unaffected by her rebellious son.

Despite the seeming loss of Raimondi ’ s originals today, it seems certain that at least one full set survived, since both the 1550 woodcuts and the so-called Caracci suite of prints ( see below ) agree in every compositional and stylistic respect with those fragments that have survived.

Despite the onset of his stroke in 1956, Solomon recorded a handful of works in stereo, but whether in stereo or mono, his recordings are all worth hearing, the clarity of his playing overcoming any seeming technical shortcomings in the recordings themselves.

Despite seeming to enjoy the kiss, she hits him and runs away but forgets her cellphone.

Despite this seeming regard for Paul's health, those at the prison deprived her of sleep.

Despite its seeming organicism, blob architecture is unthinkable without this and other similar computer-aided design programs.

Despite the seeming link to language, this organization was not strictly aligned with linguistic boundaries, but tended to combine the Order's knights and possessions in several nations or states ; the German tongue, for instance, included Scandinavia, Hungary, Poland and Bohemia.

Despite the seeming logic of these ideas, ecologists questioned the results of the SLOSS debate due to the lack of a critical body of evidence on the subject.

Despite the seeming disparateness of the topics he has examined, most of Glaeser's work can be said to apply economic theory ( and especially price theory and game theory ) to explain human economic and social behavior.

Despite seeming mean, he actually is a nice boy who once helped Maruko learn how to ride a bicycle.