Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.

Despite his criticisms of Eysenck's tough-tender axis, Rokeach also postulated a basic similarity between communism and nazism, claiming that these groups would not value freedom as greatly as more conventional social democrats, democratic socialists and capitalists would, and he wrote that " the two value model presented here most resembles Eysenck's hypothesis.

Despite some modifications the basic structure of the zarzuela remained the same: dialogue scenes, songs, choruses, and comic scenes generally performed by two actor-singers.

" Despite the artistic expressions used in these types of friendship books, the basic rules of passing the friendship book to person to person is the same.

Despite this, other reviewers complained about the " brain-dead easy " puzzles and bosses requiring " basic strategy at best ".

Despite their low draft and subsequent problems in navigating in high seas, many basic design elements of the Monitor class were copied in future warships by other designers and navies.

Despite the city's growth, Washington still had dirt roads and lacked basic sanitation.

Despite this, the basic operating principles of a microscope are quite simple.

Despite the prominence of the themes, it was some time before they became the basic unit of the imperial administrative system.

Despite having valuable data on the distribution of ice ages on Alps, climatologists and geologists could not discover the basic causes, that is, the different insolations of the Earth during past ages remained beyond the scope of these sciences.

Despite this, many manufacturers are beginning to avoid the segment definition for their products, as speed and basic functionality alone are often not sufficient to differentiate the many features that the devices are capable of.

" 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 its basic mandates it was successful in effecting significant and rapid reforms.

Despite all of this, basic, modern graham crackers are common in America as a snack for young children, at home or at preschool, early elementary school, and other child care facilities sometimes accompanied with fruit juice or milk.

Despite this, there are many basic versatile and effective techniques that are emphasized for beginners.

Despite its proximity, there was no infrastructure for basic services including schooling for children.

Despite great advances mechanically and in computer control, the basic operation of the combine harvester has remained unchanged almost since it was invented.

Despite there not being much change in the basic definition, 49 new metropolitan areas were formed as a result of the new rules for them.

Despite healthy demand for basic X. 25 services and the obvious trend for more demanding bandwidth intensive applications that required investment in more powerful switches a decision to develop BT's own hardware and network applications was made instead.

Despite this, the basic layout of the corporate office had remained largely unchanged, with employees sitting behind rows of traditional desks in a large open room, devoid of privacy.

Despite reservations in government service, many OBC and SC people could not avail of it because of the poor state of basic primary and secondary education in Bihar.

Despite the many variations, all formulas contain the same basic elements: pigmentation, oils, and waxes.

Despite the basic divide between the older Jewish immigrants, usually of German origin, and the lower class of more recently arrived Eastern European Jews, Lowell found no ally there who would articulate his view of " desirable " and " undesirable " Jews.

Despite the 1910 deadline, by 1913, the building was hardly begun with only a basic shell.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite the fundamental importance and frequent necessity of statistical reasoning, there may nonetheless have been a tendency among biologists to distrust or deprecate results which are not qualitatively apparent.

Despite their ultimate importance, the German navy declined to take up the cause of another experiment, the submarine, until 1904.

Despite the importance of public libraries, they are routinely having their budgets cut by state legislature.

Despite being omitted or just mentioned briefly in most history books, the 1, 400 year-long Buddhist period has a foundational importance in the history of the Maldives.

Despite its recognised importance, by the second half of the 19th century nearly all of its clauses had been repealed in their original form.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

Despite the importance of the office of prime minister, the constitution does not mention the office by name.

Despite its antiquity and importance, the Spanish Galgo has only recently been acknowledged by the cynological associations.

Despite the importance of the House of Gruyères its beginnings remain quite mysterious.

Despite his notoriety, and considering the importance of his reign, Commodus ' years in power are not well chronicled.

Despite the split, Naples grew in importance, attracting Pisan and Genoese merchants, Tuscan bankers, and with them some of the most championed Renaissance artists of the time, such as Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto.

Despite his importance for the period, Dexippus has been declared a " poor " source by the modern historian David S. Potter.

Despite the importance of C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, and others female authors, as well as Moore's early heroine, sword and sorcery has had a strongly masculine bias.

Despite attempts to draw new investment to the city after the hurricane, Galveston never fully returned to its previous levels of national importance or prosperity.

Despite its importance as a geological site, the crater is not protected as a national monument, a status that would require federal ownership.

Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the Ilim were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca.

Despite this, with the increase in the size and importance of the reredos, most altars were built against the wall or barely separated from it.

Despite his political reforms and his passion for trying to increase the importance of Savoy in Europe, Victor Amadeus left a considerable cultural legacy in the city of his birth.

Despite painting 10, 000 works rated of ' national importance ' by the British Museum he had only £ 12 cash in his possession ( having never opened a bank account ), and owed £ 2 million to various creditors.

Despite the importance of his books many questions remain regarding his life, hampering efforts to construct a biography with any certainty.

Despite the Borough's high population density, it contains some open spaces of Metropolitan importance including Brockwell Park and Brockwell Lido, Streatham Common, half of Clapham Common, and West Norwood Cemetery.

Despite his lack of an extensive formal education, Brock appreciated its importance.