Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Despite occupying about 0. 01 % of the visual field ( less than 2 ° of visual angle ), about 10 % of axons in the optic nerve are devoted to the fovea.

Despite occupying a lower executive position, Ben-Gurion treated Kollek like a subordinate.

Despite HarperCollins ' predictions-and, according to Moore, their deliberately limited promotion of the book-the book became enormously popular, becoming the largest-selling nonfiction book for 2002 at such major outlets as Barnes & Noble and Amazon. com, and occupying the # 1 spot in the U. S., the UK ( including being the number one seller on Amazon. co. uk before a British printing was even proposed ), Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere.

Despite their initial success, the occupying forces were quickly placed under siege by the Vietnamese army under the command of Nguyễn Tri Phương, and were eventually forced to retreat in March 1860.

Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign terms, it swept Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century, becoming Lomber in Germany, Lumbur in Austria and Ombre in England, occupying a position of prestige similar to contract bridge today.

Despite its reputation as merely being " Dallas with grapes ”, Falcon Crest soon found its own niche amongst the prime-time dramas of the 1980s, occupying the middle ground between the two extremes of the genre — being more glamorous than Dallas yet not quite as outrageous as Dynasty.

Despite being a listed building the hall was demolished in the 1950s The original entrance lodge still stands on York Road with Parklands School on South Parkway now occupying the location of the hall.

Despite the Renaults of René Arnoux and Alain Prost qualifying 1-2, their cars failed in the race leaving Ferrari occupying the top two positions with Gilles Villeneuve leading Didier Pironi.

Despite this merger, the College of Physicians and Surgeons retained its independence from Columbia and it was only in 1860 that the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at that time occupying buildings across West Fifty-ninth Street from the Roosevelt Hospital ( its major teaching hospital at the time ), after severing its ties to the New York Board of Regents and through agreement between the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia, became the official medical school of Columbia University.

Despite the collapse of the Yugoslav army, two rival resistance groups to the occupying forces formed.

Despite the new Harvey Police station occupying land immediately adjacent, the shuttered mall gained a reputation as a notorious crime magnet during the early 1990s, with at least one murder and rape taking place there, as well as several gang and drug activities.

Despite his 10 wicket hall in the Tied Test his bowling was not of Test standard and his batting average 36. 82 was not enough to keep him in the team by itself when David Boon, Allan Border, Dean Jones and Steve Waugh were occupying the middle order.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

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 marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite the name, antidepressants are often used to treat other conditions, such as anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, and some hormone-mediated disorders such as dysmenorrhea.

Despite such a tremendous victory, Abd al-Rahman had to continuously put down rebellions in al-Andalus.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

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 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 having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Despite the pragmatism of classical economists, their views were expressed in dogmatic terms by such popular writers as Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau.

Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Despite the lack of complexity, there does seem to be forethought and skill in making these tools and should be considered such.

Despite such concerns from critics, legislators, and publishers, Scott Miller later recounted that 3D Realms saw very little negative feedback to the game's controversial elements from actual gamers or their parents.

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 such challenges to keep public finances in balance, El Salvador still has one of the lowest tax burdens in the American continent ( around 11 % of GDP ).

< span id =" switch_vulnerabilities "> Despite this, switched Ethernet should still be regarded as an insecure network technology, because it is easy to subvert switched Ethernet systems by means such as ARP spoofing and MAC flooding .</ span >

Despite such humble origins, he was accepted into the hugely wealthy court of Charlemagne around 791 or 792.

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 the 1891 discovery by Eugène Dubois of what is now called Homo erectus at Trinil, Java, it was only in the 1920s when such fossils were discovered in Africa, that intermediate species began to accumulate.

Despite this, however, the country continued to receive aid and investment from capitalist countries such as the U. S ..

Despite the lack of a categorical counterindication, the belief that alcohol and antibacterials should never be mixed is widespread.

Despite its widespread acclaim, it was not nominated for an Oscar, which created a small scandal regarding the nomination practices of the Academy.

Despite widespread condemnation of her scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters.

Despite sanitary concerns, its consumption is extremely widespread in cities because it's the most practical and often cheapest way to lunch after fast food.

Despite this and reports of Indira Gandhi keeping red pandas as pets when she was a child, widespread adoption of these animals as pets has not been reported.

Despite this hurdle to habitability, its solar analog ( Sun-like ) characteristics have led to widespread interest in the star.

Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize his ill health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence brought about by his bouts of illness.

Despite being found in such widespread locales, the bulk of the Earth's crust and mantle is not molten.

Despite widespread misconceptions, only the females of most dabbling ducks " quack ".

Despite widespread criticism, VeriSign only reluctantly removed it after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) threatened to revoke its contract to administer the root name servers.

Despite investment in fixed lines, the density of main lines remains the lowest in Europe with nearly ten lines per 100 people ( 2008 ); however, cellular telephone use is widespread and generally effective.

Despite these international conventions, organizations that monitor abuses of human rights ( e. g. Amnesty International, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims ) report widespread use condoned by states in many regions of the world.

Despite two years of widespread publicity about Fett's appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, script rewrites significantly reduced the character's presence in the film.

Despite Party efforts, initial charges levelled against Falun Gong failed to elicit widespread popular support for the suppression of the group.

Despite no widespread regulation, and even with a lack in many cases of national-level regulation, heraldry has remained rather consistent across Europe, where traditions alone have governed the design and use of arms.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U. S. at the time of his death.

Despite the great human cost, the Soviet Union under Molotov's nominal premiership made great strides in the adoption and widespread implementation of agrarian and industrial technology.

Despite a widespread belief that it was adopted as the national anthem in 1866, no such recognition has ever been officially accorded.

Despite the widespread recognition of the Pez dispenser, the company considers itself to be primarily a candy company, and says over 3 billion candy bricks are consumed each year in the U. S. alone.

Despite widespread belief, Huitzilopochtli's name does not appear to mean " left-handed hummingbird " as Classical Nahuatl " huītzilin "-" hummingbird " modifies " opōchtli "-" left-hand side " in this compound rather than the reverse ; there continues to be much disagreement as to the meaning of this name.

Despite widespread use, however, the ISO certification process has been criticized as being wasteful and not being useful for all organizations.

Despite being overshadowed by Sputnik, and having to overcome the widespread humiliation of its unsuccessful early attempts, the Vanguard Project eventually met its scientific objectives, providing a wealth of information on the size and shape of the Earth, air density, temperature ranges, and micrometeorite impact.

Despite receiving critical acclaim, they never achieved widespread popularity.

Despite providing an enormous gain in worker productivity, the Chinese spinning wheel fell into disuse over the subsequent centuries and was completely unknown by the 17th century, whereas the mechanical automation of spinning in Europe in the 18th century ( from manual spinning wheel precursors of the 13th century ultimately sourced from Asia Minor ) led directly to a process of technical refinement and engineering improvements that resulted in the Industrial Revolution and widespread mechanization of production of goods beyond yarn.