Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Despite these achievements, the influence of Aristotle's errors is considered by some to have held back science considerably.

Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.

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 this regional organization, some bus and tram routes operated by STIB / MIVB go beyond the regional border, and some bus routes operated by TEC or De Lijn transport passengers from the Flemish or Walloon regions to the capital city.

Despite the opposition of some of their number, the Israelites assemble and send away their foreign wives and children.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

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

Unfortunately in the literature the definition is given in two variants: Despite the fact that Bernoulli defined B < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 / 2 ( now known as " second Bernoulli numbers "), some authors set B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 (" first Bernoulli numbers ").

Despite the difficult relations between the local Cubans and the new Europeans, some cooperation was in evidence.

Despite a cast led by Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner and some impressive battle scenes, the film was considered a disappointment by many.

" 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 potential for a financially strong owner, Stouffer had some non-baseball related financial setbacks and, consequently, the team was cash-poor.

Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

Despite some claims that shotgun sequencing was in some ways less accurate than the clone-by-clone method chosen by the Human Genome Project, the technique became widely accepted by the scientific community and is still the de facto standard used today.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite some challenges, the merger succeeded.

Despite the ubiquity of computer music in contemporary culture, there is considerable activity in the field of computer music, as researchers continue to pursue new and interesting computer-based synthesis, composition, and performance approaches.

Despite its apparent simplicity, Tic-tac-toe requires detailed analysis to determine even some elementary combinatory facts, the most interesting of which are the number of possible games and the number of possible positions.

Despite this they have some interesting properties and are related to a number of exceptional structures in mathematics, among them the exceptional Lie groups.

Despite never becoming Prime Minister, he is regarded as one of the most important British politicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as a renowned orator and an interesting character who split both main parties.

Despite such errors, closer examination reveal an even richer, deeper and more interesting story about a community that has been diverse, stable, progressive, far-sighted and which held far greater sway for the better part of two and a half centuries than one would associate with or ascribed to any community of such small size.

Despite Montgomery's personal antipathy, it is interesting to note that the battle of Alam Halfa was fought on a plan very close to that conceived by Dorman-Smith for Auchinleck and that Montgomery made skilful use of the defensive system that Dorman-Smith had been instrumental in planning and laying-out.

Despite employing an updated version of the engine, interesting and oft-unique NPC selection and welcome gameplay tweaks such as an ' All Attack ' button and the ability to use polearms from second rank, it was not well received.

Despite significant war damages, many interesting architectural historic sites have been preserved in Żary, including its medieval municipal urban arrangement.

Despite resembling a large retailer, the mixture of colours, fragrances and objects is very interesting as well as folkloric.

Despite the game's mainly linear nature, much effort was put into making exploration rewarding and interesting ; many optional areas can be missed or avoided.

Despite his controversial methods, Count Von Rosen would be remembered as one of the characters that helped modernize relief efforts to remote conflict zones via mercy flights. One of the interesting characters assisting Count Carl Gustav von Rosen was Lynn Garrison, an ex-RCAF fighter pilot.

Despite being a relatively new club, FK Ventspils has a quite rich and interesting Eurocups history.

Despite their low production numbers, TR8s have an interesting racing history.

Despite being a fan of the show and finding the role interesting, he turned it down, declaring that he only wanted to play an alien.

Despite its economic success, critics blasted the movie, saying it lacked the heart and interesting characters of Saturday Night Fever.

Despite the process of elimination that sees almost all competing restaurants shut down, it is interesting to note that every single restaurant featured in the programme was successful and operated in the black.

" Dave Foster of DVD Times criticized the episode: " Despite some interesting concepts such as a bored Troy McClure presenting to much amusement and the presence of deleted scenes and Tracey Ullman shorts amongst the clips, this is an episode that tries hard to find a hook but never quite manages, assuring it'll never make it into regular rotation on this viewer's watch.

Despite enjoying the variety and appearance of Strikers stadia, GameSpot noted only cosmetic differences among them, and criticised a lack of physical features to make them more interesting.

Despite the difficulty to interpret them, crime statistics may provide a way to investigate such a relationship, whose possible existence would be interesting from a gender differences perspective.

Despite the various interesting developments, Rolls Royce did not consider railway locomotives to be part of their core business.

Despite the good reviews for the album, Vargscarr of Maelstrom wrote that the album is " same old, but with far superior vocals to the previous releases ; and much less interesting songs.

He cited one dissenting critic Charlie Gillett, who wrote in Let It Rock: " The trouble with Hard Nose the Highway is that although the music is quite often interesting, it doesn't have a convincing emotional basis ... Despite the lack of inspiration and of melodic focus, the record is attractive to listen to.

Despite the philosophical concepts which appeared in The X-Men, Lee has said he invented genetic " mutants " to find a way to create a number of super-powered characters without having to come up with a separate and interesting origin for each one.