Despite its excellent performance, the garrison's food supply had been requisitioned for earlier offensives, a relief expedition was stalled by the weather, ethnic rivalries flared up between the defending soldiers and a breakout attempt failed.

Despite the rare adverse weather conditions, city and state crews kept streets and sidewalks free of ice, and MARTA public transport kept running.

Despite their relatively modest height compared with some continental ranges, walking and climbing in the Scottish mountains may be made treacherous by their latitude and exposure to Atlantic and Arctic weather systems.

Despite the generally high precipitation, the weather is less cloudy than in the adjacent Kuril Islands that are one of the least sunny places in the world, since the city is located behind a peninsula to the north that blocks some of the fog from the Oyashio Current.

Despite technological advances, such as improved varieties, genetically modified organisms, and irrigation systems, weather is still a key factor in agricultural productivity, as well as soil properties and natural communities.

Despite having nearly an hour's advance warning that severe weather was imminent, 42 people were killed ( 25 in vehicles ) and 1, 800 were injured because the storm arrived just in time for many people to be driving home from work.

Despite disadvantageous weather conditions Monck decided to attack the Dutch rear under Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp hoping to cripple it before the Dutch centre and van could intervene.

Despite the snowy weather, attenders came from far and wide.

Despite bad weather, the Christian ships sailed to Kefalonia, where they remained for a while.

Despite these efforts, weather and hostility among indigenous tribes slowed production, and Renault sold his lands in 1742 having made little profit.

Despite extremely heavy weather on several occasions these pontoon piers stood up remarkably well.

Despite terrible weather, he was able to secure almost the entire skull as well as nearly all its vertebrae, along with other bones.

Despite the loyalty of returning holidaymakers, resorts such as Blackpool have struggled to compete against the favorable weather of Southern European alternatives.

Despite miserable weather ( cold & rainy ), the gate narrowly missed becoming the largest take for an outdoor wrestling show at that time.

Despite millibars not being an SI unit, meteorologists and weather reporters worldwide have long measured air pressure in millibars as the values are convenient.

Despite this, WAKR / WAKC became a " farm station " of sorts for TV 5 ; its most notable alumni were Ted Henry-who was a weather anchor at WAKR prior to his long association with WEWS, and Mark Johnson-former WAKC meteorologist who has been with WEWS since 1997.

Despite a couple of delays due to bad weather, the rocket was launched only one hour behind schedule.

Despite the latitude, due to the higher altitudes of these regions, it tends to share characteristics with oceanic climates, though it also tends to experience noticeably drier weather during the " low-sun " season.

Despite outnumbering Finnish troops by over 2. 5: 1, the war proved embarrassingly difficult for the Red Army, which was ill-equipped for the winter weather and lacking competent commanders since the purge of the Soviet high command.

Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the Central Valley, inhabitants of the valley who were unfamiliar with its natural rainfall patterns and started to practice intense irrigated agriculture on the arid land soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.

Despite being highly advanced from the plate armour of old, the Napoleonic era cuirass was still quite cumbersome and hot to wear in warm weather ; however, the added protection that it gave to the wearer and the imposing appearance of an armoured cavalryman were factors favoring retention.

Despite Scotland's exceptionally cold winter in the early part of 2010, scientists discovered that after the prolonged freezing conditions, rather than reducing in number in the Scottish Highlands, the midge population had actually increased the following summer due to the cold weather reducing its natural predators, such as bats and birds.

Despite the large casualties inflicted by the Japanese and more significantly, the ever-changing weather over the Himalayas, the logistics flights ran around the clock, from April 1942, until the end of the war.

Despite the stormy weather and the difficult seas, he managed to catch enough fish to feed the entire village.

Despite the game's out-of-print status, a thriving convention scene exists supporting the game.

Despite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being Honus Wagner, held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's Ty Cobb, the " Georgia Peach.

Despite the arguments by the Giants, the league upheld O ' Day's decision and ordered the game replayed at the end of the season, if necessary.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

( Despite the name " street craps ," this game is often played in houses, usually on an uncarpeted garage or kitchen floor.

Despite an undefeated season in 1948, only 23, 891 people showed up to see the Browns beat the Buffalo Bills in the championship game.

Despite the name " Chinese checkers ", the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

Despite being well out of playoff contention the Cubs went 24 – 13 under Quade, the best record in baseball during that 37 game stretch and was hired as manager on October 19.

Despite making the race very close, in the 161st game of the season, the Dodgers snapped their five-game losing streak – and the Rockies ' five-game winning streak – to clinch the West title.

Despite this competition, D & D remains a market leader in the role-playing game industry.

Despite these differences, it is possible to use characters and monsters from a D & D game in Gamma World and vice versa.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite its advantages, the concept of implementing the game logic in a separate scripting language and writing an interpreter for it was soon dropped ( even by John Carmack who had implemented this concept ) because of the overall inflexibility of an interpreted language, the increasingly complex game logic and the fact that the game logic could be packaged into a native Dynamic link library whose source code could be released to the mod community.

Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite a largely negative critical reaction, the game sold in excess of a million copies.

Despite the Crash which caused much data corruption, technology in the game is advanced.

Despite the technical innovations that have taken place since the start of the series many still consider Super Mario Kart to be one of, if not, the best game of the franchise line.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

Despite inaugural game festivities at the new ballpark, the Dodgers would spoil the 2000 season opener, with a three HR performance by little-known Kevin Elster.