Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite the major changes made to the team in the offseason, the team wound up with its first winning season since 1997.

Despite the championship, the team did not draw enough fans to stay solvent at the major league level, as Detroit was at the time one of the smallest cities in the National League and its rapid industry-fueled growth was still several years in the future.

Despite lacking a university education, Bessel was a major figure in astronomy during his lifetime.

Despite his imperial claims, Frederick's rule was a major turning point towards the disintegration of a central rule in the Empire.

Despite his own great reputation as a military administrator, Hadrian's reign was marked by a general lack of major military conflicts, apart from the Second Roman-Jewish War.

Despite a major revolt by the Libyans, the Ottoman sultan ceded Libya to the Italians by signing the 1912 Treaty of Lausanne.

Despite improvements in the laws in recent years, Indonesia's intellectual property rights regime remains weak ; lack of effective enforcement is a major concern.

Despite the Isandhlwana victory, tactically there were major problems as well.

Despite all these measures, the Empire suffered several major setbacks in the course of the 6th century.

Despite the plethora of news services, most news printed and broadcast throughout the world each day comes from only a few major agencies, the three largest of which are the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

Despite the crackdown by Interpol on traffic and illicit manufacture of temazepam, the country has also become a major exporter of illicit temazepam of the " jelly " variety, trafficking it to the United Kingdom and other European nations.

Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth.

Despite this, substantial remains remain visible today and it continues to be a major tourist attraction.

Despite these frequent moves he wrote all his major work during his 20-plus years in the Netherlands, where he managed to revolutionize mathematics and philosophy.

Despite no major singles, the album initially sold well.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

Despite these setbacks, the Roman forces were more capable in siegecraft than the Carthaginians and recaptured all the major cities that had joined the enemy, as well as defeating a Carthaginian attempt to reinforce Hannibal at the battle of the Metaurus.

Despite the dominance of the human race, the Traveller universe is cosmopolitan, and is divided into a handful of major races and a large number of minor races.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite such international conventions, torture cases continue to arise such as the 2004 Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal committed by military police personnel of the United States Army.

Despite these personnel changes, PSV went on to win their 21st title, making it the third time in the history of the league that a team won four championships in a row, after HVV Den Haag ( 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 ) and PSV ( 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 ).

Despite the change of personnel, the fortunes of The Four Lovers did not change in the beginning of 1960, when they failed an audition for a lounge at a Union Township, Union County, New Jersey bowling establishment.

Despite personnel changes, Jimmy remained one of the top big band leaders after World War II and into the 1950s, always updating the sound of his band, but the big band business was beginning to decline.

Despite the increased armor, IEDs have been killing military personnel and civilians with greater frequency.

Despite his efforts, a German panzer division could only count on an estimated 10, 000 – 11, 000 personnel, out of an authorized strength of 13, 000 – 17, 000.

Despite this, and indications by G4 personnel that the block might have a chance of returning, it never came back on-air after being taken off and was quietly canceled.

Despite the abolition of the monarchy, the former King was laid to rest in front of the royal family, the Bavarian government, military personnel, and an estimated 100, 000 spectators, in the style of royal funerals.

Despite the success demonstrated by the exercise, it would be the last time that the division mounted something similar the national service scheme was modified to limit the size of each yearly intake of trainees and the size of the CMF was reduced by over 30, 000 men in an effort to free up Regular personnel to raise the 1st Brigade.

Despite this, some personnel think because the discharge is described as general under honorable conditions, it is as good as or the same as an honorable discharge.

Despite the increased ease of use of PLM tools, cross-training all personnel on the entire PLM tool-set has not proven to be practical.

Despite its strategic importance as the home of a large fish market, a mines depot, a flax factory, and housing numerous military personnel, Milford escaped serious damage from German bombings during the Second World War.

Despite fielding successful teams for the Yankees in the 1920s, he continued to make personnel changes in order to maintain his teams ' superiority in the AL.

Despite its size, the plant was run by a relatively small number of personnel ; this made Guest's job of making the plant appear eerily deserted easier.

Despite all of these difficulties, the Constabulary attained its goal of selecting high caliber personnel.

Despite numerous personnel changes over the years the band continues to thrive, playing regular gigs in and around Oranjemund.

Despite being told by TNA's Director of Talent Relations, Terry Taylor, that they were cutting personnel on a general basis, he revealed in a subsequent interview being fully aware that Mantell and him were released due to their friendship with Jarrett from the onset, expressing frustration due to his uninvolvement in the situation.

Despite occasional personnel changes the band released Quicksilver ( 1971 ) and Comin ' Thru ( 1972 ) before calling it quits.

Despite the appearance of the uniformed security personnel, they are not considered a legal law enforcement agency.

Despite the loss of approximately 10, 000 personnel living in the area, the base has been successfully redeveloped since closing.

Despite being built for the Interstellar Alliance the ship is crewed by Earth Force personnel and not rangers during a Call to Arms & Crusade.

Despite many personnel changes, Victoria Jazz remained popular throughout the 1970s, when the Voice of Kenya radio station pushed an onslaught of East African pop.

Despite the introduction of the desert boot at the time of Operation Desert Storm, many American military personnel were still issued jungle boots because there were not enough desert boots to issue to all personnel in the Middle East at the time which led to many American soldiers and Marines to go into battle with jungle boots and black leather combat boots.