Despite this, the Firefly's increased firepower was much valued, and during many engagements, the Firefly proved its worth, knocking out Tigers and Panthers at long range, as well as less formidable tanks like the Mark IVs and StuGs.

Despite being a superpower and having a superior arsenal of weapons at its disposal, the United States was unable to make substantial gains against North Vietnam's proxy guerilla army in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.

Despite the ongoing merger, it was a commonly-held view that the NFL was a far superior league.

Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was a fluke and continued to believe that the NFL was still superior to the AFL, and thus fully expected the Vikings to defeat the Chiefs ; the Vikings entered the Super Bowl as 12. 5 to 13-point favorites.

Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams thought theatre, film and television were superior forms of entertainment.

Despite his combat skills not being the match of Grayson's ( although there are some similarities, in that they are far superior to Todd's when he was Robin ), his detective skills more than make up for this.

Despite fighting against vastly superior forces, Napoleon managed to score a few significant victories and, between 10 and 13 February repeatedly beat Blücher ’ s “ Army of Silesia ”.

Despite the superior Austrian tactical position, after about two hours of bombardment, the French managed to put out of action most of the Austrian pieces and cause fast-spreading fires in the village of Markgrafneusiedl.

Despite their great loss in population, the Torghuts still remained the numerically superior and dominating Kalmyk tribe.

Despite the innovative packaging, added features and superior performance, this $ 3, 995 product was stillborn and never had a chance to succeed due to the failure of Otrona shortly after its release.

Despite Slaughter's and Ford's concurrence that further combat would prove tragic, the negotiations were repudiated by their superior, Confederate Maj. Gen. John G. Walker, in a scathing exchange of letters with Wallace.

Despite the general perception that American culture is characterized more by diversity than by homogeneity, the American ideology of cultural homogeneity implies an American mindset that because Eurocentric cultures are superior to others, people with different cultures should conform to the dominant monocultural canon and norms.

Despite this, he did make clear that he believed revelation was a superior source of knowledge to reason because it guaranteed matters of faith that reason could not uncover.

Despite this power, their masters win the war due to their superior weaponry and the limits of the slaves ' luck.

Despite these limitations, the CD still has some superior technologies.

Despite superior graphics technology and a wide array of non-gaming capabilities, however, the PSP has failed to overcome Nintendo ’ s DS system, which, with its addition of a second, touch-sensitive screen, remains the fastest-selling console worldwide and in most territories.

Despite the Clans ' superior military technology, the Inner Sphere's " dishonorable " tactics ultimately led to the invasion's failure.

Despite al-Qaida's similar aims and superior stature as an international terrorist organization, IBDA-C views itself as the quintessential Islamic revivalist movement toward which all others should dedicate their resources.

Despite having superior numbers, Italian resolve faltered.

Despite being outnumbered, Belisarius decided to give battle to the numerically superior Persians.

Despite Spock's condition, he displays superior strength and agility, demonstrating his expertise with the Lirpa, a traditional Vulcan weapon.

Despite their superior numbers and firearms, the British had to fight depleted Burmese forces for nearly two months before they reached the main Burmese garrison at Mrauk-U, Arakan's capital.

Despite the efforts of Mathilde, Madame de Rênal, and the priests devoted to him since his early life, Julien Sorel is determined to die — because the materialist society of Bourbon Restoration France will not accommodate a low-born man of superior intellect and æsthetic sensibility possessing neither money nor social connections.

Despite this, the Prussians seized a number of positions from numerically superior forces, inflicted equivalent losses on an enemy more than twice as strong, and left the field in perfect order.

Despite the cost and the limitation to give only syn adducts, the method's superior reliability, ease of use, and versatility render it the method of choice in many situations.

Despite a vast disadvantage in weapons technology, the numerically superior Zulus ultimately overwhelmed the poorly led and badly deployed British, killing over 1, 300 troops, including all those out on the forward firing line.

Despite their weaknesses they were much more effective than the towed antitank guns they replaced.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming.

Despite very limited capabilities ( 98 bytes of instruction memory and about 19 stack and addressable registers ), people managed to write all kinds of programs for them, including adventure games and libraries of calculus-related functions for engineers.

Despite excitement in Japan over Virtua Fighter 3 in arcades, the limited hardware capabilities of the Sega Saturn led Sega to delay a console release.

Despite the difficulties, these problems can be analysed in terms of how model-building observers infer from measurements the computational capabilities embedded in non-linear processes.

Despite the lack of financial backing and grants, they persisted and the first device was implanted in February 1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.

Despite the limited computer graphics | graphics capabilities of the Apple II family | Apple II, the player's view of the SunDog warping to a new system was impressive for the era in which it was released.

Despite the lack of financial backing and grants, they persisted and the first device was implanted in February 1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.

Despite their capabilities, desktop CPUs are slower at cracking passwords than purpose-built password breaking machines.

** Despite the capabilities of the Videl, the plain TOS allows user to choice only a few resolutions up to 640 × 480 ( or even less in the case 16-bit mode and VGA ).

Despite the use of graphics acceleration features, the desktop explores the use of 3D windowing capabilities for both existing application programs and ones specifically designed for Looking Glass.

Despite this bravado, and despite receiving units from McClellan's Army of the Potomac that swelled the Army of Virginia to 70, 000 men, Pope's aggressiveness exceeded his strategic capabilities, particularly since he was now facing Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Despite their formidable regenerative capabilities, they can be killed when properly wounded.

Despite its age, GPL has remained a top class sim even in 2008 thanks to a strong community, who collectively have updated the graphics to utilize the current CPU and graphics capabilities and have created loads of add-on tracks of a high quality.

Despite having the capabilities of a professional synth module, the noisy output of the MT-32 caused it to be generally considered unsuitable for professional studio use, however an aftermarket modification was available from Real World Interfaces to improve the MT-32's sound quality and generally increase its suitability for professional use.

Despite the pain, he is endowed with regenerative capabilities due to the same mutation that caused the neural cells to differentiate all over his body allowing him to completely regenerate whole body parts if necessary.

Despite each one off mule costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, the development team was determined to push the capabilities of the prototypes in order to deliver reliable off road performance in the production model.

Despite being the seat of Mughal power and its defensive capabilities, the Red Fort was not defended during the 1857 uprising against the British.

Despite having extensive prior knowledge of the machines and Skynet's capabilities, John is largely dismissed and considered a nuisance by General Ashdown who runs the guerrilla para-military organization.

Despite being fairly evenly matched in their stealth capabilities and martial arts skills, Elita eventually triumphed by overloading Ravage's optical sensors and knocking him out.