Despite lacking the support of big businesses, these technologies grew in popularity and were adopted by businesses.

Despite the amendment lacking the weight of law, the conference report is constantly cited by the Discovery Institute and other ID supporters as providing federal sanction for intelligent design.

Despite being morphologically simple, lacking a skeleton and usually being sessile, cnidarians prey on fish and crustaceans.

Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.

Despite lacking evidence, Marlborough's detractors claimed that it was he who had alerted the enemy.

Despite lacking a significant hit, it broke the top 40 in both the UK and USA.

Despite the expansion of the maquila industry, Juarez still remained a relatively poor and undeveloped city lacking infrastructure in some parts such as electricity and paved roads.

Despite lacking the sacred treasures, Prince Yutahito was enthroned as emperor, beginning the Northern Court.

Despite his favorable attitude towards the poor, he was himself attacked by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and other socialists for lacking positive aims.

Despite having a later start than his rivals and lacking both the material resources and social status they commanded, Liu Bei overcame his many defeats to carve out his own realm, which at its peak spanned modern day Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, part of Hubei and part of Gansu.

Despite lacking the dash which won Britain so many victories in India, Campbell was regarded as a brave soldier and a careful and prudent leader.

Despite having an elaborate military, South Vietnam was too corrupt and too lacking in self confidence to effectively resist the invasion by North Vietnam, and Saigon fell to the North in 1975, thus ending the war.

Despite lacking formal education, Adams could read, write and speak several languages.

Despite lacking full voting privileges on the floor of the House of Representatives, delegates are voting members in U. S. Congressional committees and they lobby their congressional colleagues regarding the District's interests.

Despite UDP Soft lacking the marketing power of GameSpy, ASE's popularity grew swiftly and steadily.

Despite his lacking Haskell's control, Cruce still managed to complete many projects he initiated.

Despite the latter's musical proximity to Tu-Plang, both albums met criticism from many fans, who considered them lacking the creativity of the alternative and explicit Regurgitator from the mid-1990s.

Despite outnumbering Finnish troops by over 2. 5: 1, the war proved embarrassingly difficult for the Red Army, which was ill-equipped for the winter weather and lacking competent commanders since the purge of the Soviet high command.

Despite lacking any formal schooling beyond elementary school, he was ranked 2nd in the Forbes list of Taiwan's Richest.

Despite the book's widespread acceptance by journalists and the general public, scholars such as Francis Paul Prucha criticized it for lacking sources for much of the material, except for direct quotations ; he said that content was selected to present a particular point of view, rather than to be balanced ; and that the narrative of government-Indian relations suffered from not being placed within the perspective of what else was occurring within the government and the country at the time.

Despite lacking Leo's precision, Raph has been shown to be able to overwhelm him through brute strength.

Despite the RCP lacking a branch in Neath at the start of the campaign Haston was able to poll 1, 781 votes in the Neath by-election, 1945.

Despite lacking popular appeal, and refusing to bribe voters in a similar way to those of Hull, he became respected as a man of morals and integrity.

Despite the somewhat lacking gameplay updates of the US version, the Japanese version featured many gameplay changes, with new attacks for characters, tweaked move properties for attacks, and a new intro cinematic for the game.

Despite the economic crisis and the budget cutbacks announced by the Dutch government for the period up to 2014, the university has set itself an ambitious strategic vision for the period up to 2020.

Despite some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala's historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university.

Despite violent opposition from some printers in the Sheldonian, this ended the friction between Oxford and the Stationers, and marked the effective start of a stable university printing business.

Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, a secondary school pupil ( and later university student ) whose constant care for her mother has left her a bitter cynic.

Despite these successes, de Moivre was unable to obtain an appointment to a Chair of Mathematics at a university, which would have released him from his dependence on time-consuming tutoring that burdened him more than it did most other mathematicians of the time.

Despite their exposure on national radio, success was not forthcoming and, apart from Cocker, most of the core line-up left for university.

Despite this problems the university grew and attracted famous scholars and students.

Despite initial skepticism from university President Frank Porter Graham, on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State College of Agriculture and Engineering and the Women's College to form the Consolidated University of North Carolina.

Despite many efforts of the university to change that imbalance, the number of women studying at TU Delft stays relatively constant over the years.

Despite its relatively small population, Greifswald retains a supra-regional relevance linked to its intellectual role as a university town and to the taking of the central functions of the former Prussian Province of Pomerania after World War II, such as the seat of the bishop of the Pomeranian Lutheran Church, the state archives ( Landesarchiv ) and the Pomeranian Museum ( Pommersches Landesmuseum ).

Despite his being a university graduate and proficient in English, Ricky is portrayed as a driver of a horse-drawn cab who waits for fares at a pier where tourists arrive by ship.

Despite its relatively young age, the university has quickly forged a strong reputation in less than half a century.

Despite its proximity to the University of Warwick on Coventry's southern outskirts, it has only a small student population of mostly postgraduate students, although many staff at the university choose to live in Kenilworth.

Despite the government decision, the eight municipalities of Södertörn sent another request to the Swedish government that the university college be lifted to full university status.

Despite his excellent academic record it became obvious at Glasgow that he was better suited to business than to university, and when he was sixteen Law left school to become a clerk at Kidston & Sons.

Despite losing in 2008, he has remained active and keenly maintains his links with the university.

Despite the ongoing tensions, the university continued to grow and the student population had reached 8, 000 by 1995 and 10, 139 by 2001.

Despite having no connection to the university, he joined Birmingham University Officers ' Training Corps in 1912, and was thus able to be commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 22 August 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War ; in later life, as a result of his modest social origins and unpretentious manner, he was sometimes wrongly supposed to have risen from the ranks.

Despite the fact that it is still the highest ranked Russian university according to the three international rankings mentioned above ( with the nearest Russian competitor being Saint Petersburg State University that scored 300-400th ), the university was consistently placed outside top 5 nationally in 2010-2011 by Forbes and Ria Novosti / HSE., with both ratings based on data set collected by GU VSHE from Russian Unified State Exam scores averaged per all students and faculties of university.

Despite of the wide range of sports offered in the Sports Center of the university, there are only two teams that play at a competitive level.

Despite Callaghan's protestations that she should go back to university, she campaigned for his victory alongside Neil Kinnock, the future Glenys Kinnock and Rhodri Morgan, whom she would marry in 1967.