Despite its tiny population, the town is very well known for its name, which comes from the community's original church, namesake of the biblical town of Bethlehem.

" Despite this assertion, throughout his career, many of his songs have mentioned God (" Carry Us All ", " Gas Panic !," " The Hindu Times " and " Little by Little "), and all the tracks he had contributed to Dig Out Your Soul, as well as the other bandmates ' songs, have lyrics and references to God and other biblical terms.

Despite the biblical basis employed to underpin CWM, such as, its surrounding culture tends to exclude systematic use of the psalms in weekly worship, sidelining lament from regular worship practice.

Despite the criticisms of his religious policies in the biblical texts, archaeologists such as Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman credit Manasseh with reviving Judah's rural economy, arguing that a possible Assyrian grant of most favoured nation status stimulated the creation of an export market.

Despite this, 3 Corinthians was rejected from biblical canon, and thus became part of the New Testament apocrypha.

Despite the presence of vegetation, the earth does not yet contain human or animal life, indicating that the scene represents the events of the biblical Third Day.

( Despite the Exodus story, scholars believe that the passover festival originated not in the biblical story but as a magic ritual to turn away demons from the household by painting the doorframe with the blood of a slaughtered sheep.

Despite this apparent contradiction, most modern Esoteric Christian movements refer to Origen's writings ( along, with other Church Fathers and biblical passages ) to validate these ideas as part of the Esoteric Christian tradition.

Despite early references to biblical trees, the Book of Genesis and such, the bulk of Aquarion is tied to many other non-Christian myths.

Despite the above, a minhag does not override clear biblical or talmudic enactments, and one may not transgress the latter for the sake of the former.

Despite the democratic constitution, the government under Chiang was a one-party state, consisting almost completely of mainlanders ; the " Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion " greatly enhanced executive powers, and the goal of retaking mainland China allowed the KMT to maintain a monopoly on power and the prohibition of opposition parties.

Despite the prohibition he went to Münnerstadt in 1504, to paint and gild the altarpiece that Tilman Riemenschneider had left in plain wood ten years earlier, presumably according to his contract ( unlike Stoss, his workshop did not include painters and guilders ).

Despite their early prohibition, recorded in the Pali Canon, these practices ( known as the Dhutanga practices or in Thai as thudong ) eventually became acceptable to the monastic community.

Despite the efforts of certain merchants to repeal prohibition in Monmouth throughout its history, their efforts proved useless.

Despite the fears raised by proponents of prohibition, the alcohol related crime rate, and crime rate in general have remained flat since repeal.

* Despite the official prohibition against stage plays, theatrical manager and promoter William Beeston finances repairs to the Cockpit Theatre and attempts to assemble and train a company of young actors.

Despite such a prohibition, depictions of human beings do occur Islamic art, such as that of the Mughals, demonstrating a strong diversity in popular interpretation over the pre-modern period.

Despite that prohibition, gambling with cards remained highly popular.

Despite the prohibition against doing work on Shabbat ( the Jewish Sabbath ) Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848.

Despite two hundred years of suppression by successive French centralist governments and the official prohibition of the language at school, in the administration and in the media, Occitan and Occitania have never ceased to inspire poets and authors.

Despite considering himself a " wet ", he enforced prohibition since it was the law of the land.

Despite this, " Oregon's criminal prohibition represents that state's judgment that the possession and use of controlled substances, even by only one person, is inherently harmful and dangerous ," Justice O ' Connor stated.

Despite the de jure prohibition on picking up passengers who hail on the street, some livery cabs nevertheless do so anyway, often to make extra money.

Despite the lack of identification, the man's skull was displayed as that of " Pa Bender " in a Salmon saloon until prohibition forced its closure in 1920 and the skull disappeared.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

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 being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

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 the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he became president.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite the apparent peeling on the LM's outer skin, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.

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 being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.