Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

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 this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.

Despite several attempted invasions across the Red Sea, Kaleb was unable to dislodge Abreha, and acquiesced in the change ; this was the last time Ethiopian armies left Africa until the 20th century when several units participated in the Korean War.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

Despite sharing a last name, he is not related to the early 20th century astronomer Frank Watson Dyson, but as a small boy Freeman Dyson was aware of Frank Watson Dyson.

Despite this comment, Samuelson spent the last 50 years of his life obsessed with the problems of capital theory identified by Hayek and Böhm-Bawerk, and Samuelson flatly judged Hayek to have been right and his own teacher, Joseph Schumpeter, to have been wrong on the central economic question of the 20th century, the feasibility of socialist economic planning in a production goods dominated economy.

Despite the terror and unprecedented propaganda, the last free General Elections of 5 March 1933, while resulting in 43. 9 % failed to bring the majority for the NSDAP that Hitler had hoped for.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Despite getting back Preki, the Wizards sat in last place in the Western Conference in 2002.

Despite these small numbers, the number of visitors has doubled over the last decade.

Despite throwing 60 passes and hindered by a lack of depth at running back, last year's Super Bowl MVP wasn't intercepted and rallied the Saints within 34 – 30 in the fourth quarter.

Despite some continued systematic problems, Poland has made a large economic progress over the last decade, and now is ranked 20-th worldwide in terms of the GDP.

Despite initial excitement, the guidance of longtime baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as a new playing field, the team struggled ; the Padres finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times.

Despite this, it was the last time this happened in such a complete way and the house marked the end of a phase in his design thinking as well as being the last of a series of buildings dominated by the colour white.

Despite an increase of 14 years in the last decade, life expectancy at birth in Yemen has remained low compared with other developing countries — 60. 6 years for males and 64. 5 years for females, or 62. 5 years overall.

Despite substantial uncertainties, especially for the period prior to 1600 when data are scarce, the warmest period of the last 2, 000 years prior to the 20th century very likely occurred between 950 and 1100, but temperatures were probably between 0. 1 ° C and 0. 2 ° C below the 1961 to 1990 mean and significantly below the level shown by instrumental data after 1980.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Despite its military strength, the Qin Dynasty did not last long.

Despite seventeen pregnancies, Anne died without surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart.

Despite this, the dugong population is thought to be shrinking, with a worldwide decline of 20 per cent in the last 90 years.

" Despite his numerous affairs, eventual divorce, and remarriage, the Emperor's last words on his death bed at St. Helena were: " France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine.

Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of 1 – 2 hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm.

Despite his original promise to fight to the last man, he seemed eager to do anything to avoid a showdown in the city in order to save the capital and its inhabitants.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

Despite the foregoing, most CD-Rs on the market have an 80 minute capacity.

Despite the lack of beaches in town's area, there are a lot of them at distance of 20 minute travel by bus, train or taxi.

Despite the song's seven minute, twenty-one second length, Webb released " MacArthur Park " as a single, and it quickly reached Number 2 on the singles chart.

Despite some fans ' reservations about commercial leanings, the album concludes with a ten minute instrumental ' Ice ', showcasing Latimer's lead guitar skills.

Despite its outward appearance, the Man of War is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which differs from jellyfish in that it is not actually a single creature, but a colonial organism made up of many minute individuals called zooids.

Despite lack of major political backing, his performance in a televised debate and last minute television commercials are credited with his victory.

Despite its small size, it contains two large features, the wide Excelsior Geyser which pours over per minute into the Firehole River.

Despite a nearly completed agreement, talks fell apart at the last minute when Karmanos wanted an additional $ 45 million dollars to cover losses during the three years the new arena was to be built.

Despite the field closing in he held on to win the stage by 4 seconds, the peloton coming in less than a minute behind.

Despite this last minute demands, Germany had already arranged for its attack on Poland.

Despite these disconcerting facts, they exist in minute quantities in mascara, and their presence has not been positively linked to negatively affect health.

Despite relegation in 1996, the club reached the final of the 1997 Third Division promotion play-offs but lost to Northampton Town, whose goal came from a re-taken free kick by John Frain in the final minute.

Despite the positive remarks, the main points of criticism draw from the length of the album, with only three songs breaking past the four minute mark.

Despite the fact that Tim Morse pulled out at the last minute, the tour still went ahead, with the band deciding to find a drummer while they were touring.

Despite Raymond's hasty visit to the rectory soon after 2: 30 p. m. to spread the alert, there was an unexplained delay before the first telephone call from the rectory reached the fire department at 2: 42 p. m. One minute later, a second telephone call was received from Barbara Glowacki, the owner of a candy store on the alley along the north wing.

Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.

Despite being visibly outplayed in nearly every aspect by Ty Conklin, whom he credited for not allowing the goaltending situation to become much worse than it was, Osgood's immense playoff experience was referred to throughout the season, and as the unquestioned starting goaltender in the 2009 playoffs he played nearly every minute of 23 games, finishing with a 15 – 8 record.

Despite a last minute effort by Democratic Senator John Kerry to filibuster, a cloture vote to end debate passed 72-25 on Monday, January 30.

Despite a 1-0 home win in the first leg of the final and going one up in the second opponents Shelbourne fought back and a last minute equaliser forced a penalty shoot-out which Shelbourne were to win.

Despite this, there appears to have been no hard feelings between O ' Hare and Arab Strap as O ' Hare later featured on their double A-side 1998 release, " Here We Go " / " Trippy ", contributing to the twelve minute song, " Trippy ".

Despite being injured regularly ( he was a doubt up until the last minute for the 1936 Cup Final ), Drake's speed, fierce shooting and brave playing style meant he was Arsenal's first-choice centre forward for the rest of the decade, and he was the club's top scorer for each of the five seasons from 1934 – 35 to 1938 – 39.

Despite his convincing performances, he was not included in the final squad for the UEFA Euro 2000 tournament on home soil after being dropped at the last minute.

Despite falling behind to a first-half goal from Jose Callejon and a second on the hour from Karim Benzema, Sven Goran Eriksson's men showed remarkable resilience against the nine-time champions of Europe and pulled a deserved goal back a minute from the end through substitute Lloyd Dyer.