Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite the modern split, numerous sources stress an integration of esoteric and exoteric approaches to alchemy.

Despite entering the LM forty minutes ahead of schedule, Young and Duke completed preparations only ten minutes early due to numerous delays in the process.

Despite numerous publications on this epistle, scholarly discussion has failed to yield a definitive consensus on most issues.

Despite the numerous oppositions, Haeckel has influenced many disciplines in science in his drive to integrate such disciplines of taxonomy and embryology into the Darwinian framework and to investigate phylogenetic reconstruction through his Biogenetic Law.

Despite its beauty, size and numerous recreational opportunities, the lake is scarcely visited sheerly to its distance from Helsinki, and its daunting distance to other similarly-populated areas in the south of the country.

Despite numerous similarities in phrasing and factual errors, the court found the evidence inadequate and dismissed the case.

Despite numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

Despite this, Oxfordians list numerous incidents in Oxford's life that they say parallel those in many of the Shakespeare plays.

Despite the fact that numerous fossils have been found in the contemporary parts of the formation in Canada, no pterosaur specimens have ever been found there.

Despite numerous requests by Abdullah bin Jassim — for strong military support, for weapons, and even for a loan — the British were reluctant to become involved in inland affairs and kept him at arm's length.

Despite this, numerous important individual poems appeared in the years 1923 – 1926 ( including Gong and Mausoleum ), as well as the abundant lyrical work in French.

Despite numerous battles, neither the Umayyads nor the Asturians had sufficient forces to secure control over these northern territories.

Despite Mary believing she was pregnant numerous times during her five-year reign, she never reproduced.

Despite this setback ( whose victims later created numerous doubts and psychological strife in Mazzini ), he organized another uprising for the following year.

Despite these prohibitions, numerous elements of the pre-Christian culture of the Anglo-Saxon people survived the Christianisation process.

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

Despite numerous successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army over the Rhine in the years after the battle, the Romans were to make no more concerted attempts to conquer and permanently hold Germania beyond the river.

Despite inroads made by numerous prominent sinologists, independent scholarly research of the Cultural Revolution is discouraged by the Chinese government.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a reformer, especially in comparison with the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.

Despite being almost completely demolished after the end of World War II, it now builds warships both for the Deutsche Marine and for export ( see MEKO ), as well as oil drilling equipment and ships for numerous commercial customers.

Despite, however, their advantage in numbers, the Chinese did not attempt a direct assault on the Legation Quarter although in the words of one of the besieged, " it would have been easy by a strong, swift movement on the part of the numerous Chinese troops to have annihilated the whole body of foreigners ... in an hour.

" 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 systematic searches since 1931,, they have never been observed, and could very well not exist.

* Despite extensive searches, no complete print of the movie has been found.

Despite a month of searches by the Civil Air Patrol ( CAP ) and others, Fossett could not be found, and the search by CAP was called off on October 2, 2007.

Despite repeated and extensive searches of the area nothing was ever found.

Despite the seizure of his computer equipment ; searches of his business, person, and home ; grand jury investigations ; FBI and ATF questioning ; facing years in prison and hundreds of death threats ; he did not reveal the identities of members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front movements.

Despite repeated searches, the rest of the archive, including the third milk can, was never found.

Despite the apparent destruction of the comet, there were a number of searches for it during the later 20th century.

Despite exhaustive research, including searches of census records, voting rosters, and death records, nothing has been found to substantiate the existence of this group except for a few gravestones in the Columbia Cemetery where several of the surnames are found.

" Despite its natural timidity and the distress that other beings ' anger, fear and pain cause it, Prilicla uses its empathic ability in prolonged searches for survivors of space combat and accidents.

Despite exhaustive searches, Isabella Miller's body was not recovered for several days.

Despite searches, no planets are currently known to transit the star from the perspective of Earth, making it difficult to study their properties.

Despite the fact that no specific documentation has been found in sales literature ( on internet searches ), the January 2011 issue of " The Self-Starter ", the official magazine of the Cadillac-La Salle Club, lists a 1946 model 6267D Convertible for sale with " hydraulic windows ".

Despite numerous searches for his body on Saddleworth Moor, it has yet to be found.

Despite subsequent searches, her grave remains undiscovered.

Despite the unpopularity, in an example of Rule 34, pornographic fan art of the character —" some with a remarkable degree of verisimilitude to the real thing ", according to CBS News — appeared frequently in results for Internet searches of " Erin Esurance ", also likely contributing to the decision.

Despite several efforts, searches for verifiable physical evidence have been futile, as the only evidence for the existence of the mapinguari is anecdotal.

Despite extensive searches no trace of the ' plane or its crew was found.

Despite the danger, the Rebbe refused to leave his followers and made no effort to save himself from further searches.