Despite its short life, the Popular Front government passed much important legislation, including the 40-hour week, paid holidays for the workers, collective bargaining on wage claims and the nationalisation of the arms industry.

Despite this unofficial standard, regional variations of American English have not only persisted but have actually intensified, according to linguist William Labov.

Despite the absence of a Benedictine order, since most monasteries founded during the Middle Ages adopted the Rule of St Benedict, it became the standard for Western Monasticism.

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 criticisms, DES was approved as a federal standard in November 1976, and published on 15 January 1977 as FIPS PUB 46, authorized for use on all unclassified data.

Despite the immense economic growth, however, the standard of living for city laborers and farmers was still low.

Despite this, the standard of living continued to improve as local councils built new houses to let to families rehoused from outdated slums, with up to date facilities including indoor toilets, bathrooms and electric lighting now being included in the new properties.

Despite its name, it is technically a fairly standard commercial lager rather than a bitter.

Despite a relatively high standard of primary health care and education, infant mortality is still 83 out of 1, 000 live births, and it is estimated that malnutrition affects one in three of Zanzibar's people.

Despite the benefits of frame relay packet switching, many international companies are staying with the X. 25 standard.

Despite the controversy, dopamine antagonists remain a standard and successful treatment for schizophrenia.

Despite the common misconception that Dotsero is a shortening of " Dot Zero ," the station name exists from the construction of the standard gauge line to Glenwood Springs in the 1890s.

Despite Douglass's enthusiasm, an anonymous 1852 reviewer for William Lloyd Garrison's publication The Liberator suspected a racial double standard in the idealization of Uncle Tom:

Despite stabilising the GDR to some extent, he never succeeded in raising the standard of living in the country to a level comparable to that in the West.

Despite using an irrational number base, when using standard form, all non-negative integers have a unique representation as a terminating ( finite ) base-φ expansion.

Despite the rivalry of ben Naphtali and the opposition of Saadia Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible.

Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.

Despite being very similar to standard Italian, Swiss Italian presents some differences to the Italian spoken in Italy due to the presence of French and German from which it assimilates words.

Despite being an imperfect translation, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete remained the standard one for centuries, circulating in manuscript before being printed in the 1543 edition published in Basel by Theodor Bibliander.

Despite this emphasis on the differences between standard Slovene and the dialects of the Slavia Italiana, the very same policies of Italianization that were first applied to the neighboring Julian March were extended to the Slavia, thus paradoxically bringing the local populations, which diverged in their historical experiences, closer together.

Despite this official opening ceremony, minor work still remained to bring the extension to the standard required to run regular passenger trains, but regular train services began on 29 May 1976.

Despite a critical drubbing, the film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Susan Hayward ) and Best Music, Song ( Victor Young and Ned Washington for the title song, sung by Martha Mears ), which has become a jazz standard.

" Despite this he always made a point of responding to all letters delivered to his house, and he sent a variety of standard replies to all letters asking basic questions, as well as those from conspiracy theorists, proponents of hunting and ' cranks '.

Despite the official nomenclature, standard " Moldovan " is widely considered to be identical to the standard Romanian.

Despite the critics clamoring for " maximum efficiency " rather than revolutionary methods, anarchist collectives often produced more than before the collectivization.

Despite this increase in the potential maximum term of the Dáil to seven years, Section 7 of the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1927 remained in force under the new constitution, as it applied to the term of the Dáil.

Despite the urgency of the situation and their maximum speed of around, the ships travelled at a steady ; running at high speed used significantly more coal, so to complete the long journey it was necessary to travel at the most economic speed.

Despite the gains which have been made in efficiency, the Panama Canal Authority ( ACP ) estimates that the canal will reach its maximum sustainable capacity between 2009 and 2012.

Despite the fairly extensive AP offerings, the school still restricts students to a maximum of 3 AP courses per school year.

Despite being a senior Cabinet minister himself, Darling was hardly seen outside the area, as he was making the maximum effort to win his seat.

Despite the name " bilevel " or " double-decker ", for maximum compatibility the rail car will have up to four different floor heights.

Despite the rather relaxed lack of a specified font, the hyphen between the lettering must lie between the minimum dimensions of 13mm x 10mm or the maximum dimension of 22mm x 10mm.

Despite the use of an improved engine, capable of a maximum speed of 475 km / h ( 295 mph ), these machines were unable to cope with the difficult task of resisting the invasion.

Despite the close relationship between maximum cliques and maximum independent sets in arbitrary graphs, the independent set and clique problems may be very different when restricted to special classes of graphs.

Despite the intensity, the cyclone was not purely tropical ; although the radius of maximum winds was only, the thermal structure did not resemble a tropical cyclone, and there was no precipitation or convection near the center.

Despite a maximum design speed of 124 mph ( 200 km / h ), current track and safety requirements limit the train's speed to 79 mph ( 127 km / h ), although a $ 781 million work is currently underway for the Cascades route which will allow them to operate at speeds up to 110 mph ( 177 km / h ).

Despite the large changes in his squad, Mowbray won the Championship Manager of the Month award in September 2007, after Albion gained 13 out of the maximum 15 points and climbed to 2nd in the Division.

Despite the ethic relating " inches of fish " to " gallons of water ," many cichlid keepers subscribe to a more cichlid-specific ethic in which the maximum size potential of a fish is considered relative to the auquarium dimensions.

Despite trailing Nilsson only very narrowly before the penultimate set of votes were announced, Selma's hopes of victory came to an abrupt end when Bosnia and Herzegovina awarded maximum points to Sweden and nothing at all to Iceland.

Despite the decrease in maximum frequency compared to POWER6 ( 4. 25 GHz vs 5. 0 GHz ), each core has higher performance than the POWER6, while having up to 4 times the number of cores.

Despite the system's disorganized cloud appearance, combined observations from nearby ships, as well as a report from Manzanillo, Mexico, reveals Irwin's maximum sustained winds may have been as high as with a minimum barometric pressure of, which was set as the storm's peak intensity at 00 UTC on August 22.

Despite its price and large maximum aperture, the 1. 0L was not a particularly sharp lens at any aperture, and the two cheaper 50mm options offered far better sharpness when stopped down beyond about 2. 8.

Despite its size, the lake ’ s maximum depth is only.