Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.

Despite the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.

Despite its being a non-metric unit, a number of metric countries have used this unit for its limited range of application.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite very limited capabilities ( 98 bytes of instruction memory and about 19 stack and addressable registers ), people managed to write all kinds of programs for them, including adventure games and libraries of calculus-related functions for engineers.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite this, there is limited export of products produced or processed industrially.

Despite those hopes, however, usable land has always been severely limited.

Despite the prescribed safety of GET requests, in practice their handling by the server is not technically limited in any way.

Despite the absence of conditional jumps, the Z3 was a Turing complete computer ( ignoring the fact that no physical computer can be truly Turing complete because of limited storage size ).

Despite his limited singing ability, he had a hit song with " Wand ' rin ' Star ".

Despite his physicians ' predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk again, but from that point on he was in constant pain and was severely limited in his ability to move.

Despite NeXT's limited commercial success, the company had a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

Despite having a limited range, by the end of LeMay ’ s command in 1957, the B-47 had become the backbone of SAC, comprising over half of its total aircraft and eighty percent of its bomber capacity.

Despite its elegance, Montague grammar was limited by the context-dependent variability in word sense, and led to several attempts at incorporating context, such as:

Despite excitement in Japan over Virtua Fighter 3 in arcades, the limited hardware capabilities of the Sega Saturn led Sega to delay a console release.

Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

Despite a modest increase in specific impulse, implementation is limited due to the increased hazards of the high-explosive additives.

Despite her limited education, she read as much of the scientific literature as she could obtain, and often, laboriously hand-copied papers borrowed from others.

Despite being directly responsible for the camp's operations, Stangl limited his contact with Jewish prisoners as much as possible.

Despite the limited diversity of species, the number of individuals is large.

Despite having a loyal customer base ( primarily musicians and audio enthusiasts ), MiniDisc met with only limited success.

Despite the seaside location, the tourist appeal of Kerch today is limited because of the industrial character of the city and associated pollution.

Despite the therapeutic effectiveness and proven success of CBT, treatment availability is significantly limited by a lack of trained clinicians, poor geographical distribution of knowledgeable professionals, and expense.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite the technological limitations of the TV medium at the time, more and more people chose to stay home to watch the television.

Despite the advent of a regular television service in the Federal Republic in 1952, cinema attendances continued to grow through much of the 1950s, reaching a peak of 817. 5 million visits in 1956.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

Despite a relatively successful career in film and stage, Alexander never managed to repeat his Seinfeld-level of success in television.

Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties.

Despite the company's indisputable leadership in television technology, David Sarnoff in 1955 commented, " Television will never be a medium of entertainment ".

Despite frigid temperatures, the crowd numbered 57, 167, with an additional several million watching the game on television.

Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams thought theatre, film and television were superior forms of entertainment.

Despite its rareness, DID is portrayed with remarkable frequency in popular culture, producing or appearing in numerous books, films and television shows.

Despite approaching his seventies, Fonda continued to work in theater, television and film through the 1970s.

Despite his campy television persona, Lynde never publicly came out as gay and the press generally refrained from commenting about it.

Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world.

Despite its relatively small size, ABC found increasing success with television programming aimed at the emerging " Baby Boomer " culture.

Despite intense micro-managing on the part of Disney management, the flagship television network was slow to turn around.

Despite this, lesbians and gay men are still often portrayed negatively in television, films, and other media.

Despite having a two-year contract, NBC announced shortly after the season that it was getting out, as the season's later games had garnered the lowest ratings for a major American television network since the Nielsen ratings had begun tracking them, and the league folded shortly afterwards.

" Despite the single having been released only a day before to coincide with Presley's national television debut, the Dorsey brothers did not allow Presley to perform it on their show because it didn't work well in rehearsals.

Despite its small size, Pembina maintained a television station, KCND-TV, from 1960 to 1975.

Despite losing a member of the group, the future remained positive as, although they were very sad to see Cattermole leave the group, they were " delighted " to have extended their contracts meaning they could look forward to new material, a new series of their television show as well as their first feature film.

Despite being considerably softer in its approach than its BBC predecessor, the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U. S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.

Despite claims to the contrary, the opening scenes of the first episode, taking place on a train, bear a striking resemblance to those of the first episode of the series Peyton Place ; the made for television film, Della ( aka Royal Bay starring Joan Crawford ) appears to be the inspiration for the story involving Elizabeth.

Despite its relatively high station clearances for its timeslot and low production costs, Dark Shadows fell victim to the purge mainly because of its young audience, who usually did not make decisions about the purchasing of household goods and food products for the family, which were the two chief industries that bought airtime on daytime television in that era.

Despite a lack experience, Garvey's hiring was based largely on her charisma in previous television appearances and for being well known as beautiful wife to Major League Baseball first baseman Steve Garvey.

Despite this lack of success, Epsilon Eridani made its way into science fiction literature and television shows for many years following news of Drake's initial experiment.