Despite decisively defeating the Marathas, what might have been Ahmad Shah's peaceful control of his domains was disrupted by many challenges.

Despite those challenges, the Caymanians enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita and one of the highest standards of living in the world.

Despite the recent modest and stable growth, Djibouti is faced with many economic challenges, particularly job creation and poverty reduction.

Despite some challenges, the merger succeeded.

Despite such challenges to keep public finances in balance, El Salvador still has one of the lowest tax burdens in the American continent ( around 11 % of GDP ).

Despite these challenges, the USFSA continued its planning for the games, adopting in its first program for the meeting eight articles to address, only one of which had to do with the Olympics.

Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.

Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing inter-party debate on the pace of market reforms.

Despite this, they do face challenges unique to their nature.

Despite these challenges, however, creators of The Simpsons usually look forward to " Sideshow Bob episodes ;" the writers consider them enjoyable to write, and former director Dominic Polcino describes them as " a treat " to work on.

Despite these challenges Blake's 7 was very popular, with some episodes exceeding ten million viewers.

Despite her success as a writer, Duras's adult life was also marked by personal challenges, including a recurring struggle with alcoholism.

Despite Uathach's protests, he challenges Cú Chulainn to a duel, and Cú Chulainn dispatches him easily.

" Despite the compliment, Cú Chulainn challenges Connla.

Despite these challenges, Jefferson Parish still contains the largest number of middle class residents in metropolitan New Orleans and acts as the retail hub for the entire metro area.

Despite the challenges, the settlers constructed the palisade per Standish's recommendations in just three months, finishing in March 1622.

Despite legal challenges from Harvey, the result was upheld.

Despite recent economic challenges, the city continues to serve as the headquarters of Pyrotecnico Fireworks, the winner of the 2008 Gold Jupiter, awarded at the world ’ s most prestigious fireworks venue: LaRonde in Montreal, Canada.

Despite the challenges of population loss and limited economic development, Pflugerville managed to survive.

Despite a measure of popular support, his rule faced daunting challenges right from the start.

Despite these challenges, the Concorde was operated profitably in a niche market for over 27 years.

Despite creating very little music, he was able to overcome the challenges of sound design.

Despite the use of cross-platform middleware, Sonic Heroes was Sega's first multi-platform title, and the development team found additional challenges in working with the Xbox, the platform that they had very little experience with.

Despite these challenges, if the information retrieved does not appear to be sufficient, or a poor preservation is achieved, authors like J. A.

" Despite the common recurrence of depressions, classical liberalism remained the orthodox belief among American businessmen until the Great Depression.

Despite his Roman Catholic post, Garvin described his spiritual position as " pandeism ' or ' pan-en-deism ,' something very close to the Native American concept of the all-pervading Great Spirit ..."

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

Despite its isolated location the Great Victoria is bisected by very rough tracks including the Connie Sue Highway and the Anne Beadell Highway.

Despite the ending of slavery in Great Britain, the United States continued to rely on it as an institution in the South, and the West Indian colonies of the British Empire also kept slavery.

Despite having a child under the regency of his mother as a ruler, the structure established by Emperor Otto the Great remained strong as most of the Empire's most powerful official stayed loyal to the Imperial system.

Despite the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu ( r. 174 – 160 BCE ) and Emperor Wen ( r. 180 – 157 BCE ) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raided Han territories south of the Great Wall for additional goods.

Despite growing issues with Great Britain, Lord Dunmore had been a popular governor in Virginia, even though he served only five years.

Despite his protests, he was sent by the Arian King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths to Constantinople to secure a moderation of Emperor Justin's decree of 523 against the Arians.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

Despite calamities triggered by the Great Fire of 1547, the early part of Ivan's reign was one of peaceful reforms and modernization.

Despite the events of 1956, Childe retained a love of the Soviet Union, having visited it on a number of occasions prior, and was involved with the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, a satellite body of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Despite the Great Depression, the county's population increased to 106, 059 in 1940.

Despite the presence of the Great Lakes which make for a somewhat milder climate in the region, Seneca County has a rather continental climate, namely after removal of the forests which once covered most of it upset the microclimate.

Despite the Church's rebuilding after al-Hakim's death, and pilgrimages resuming, including the Great German Pilgrimage of 1064 – 1065, pilgrims continued to suffer attacks from local Muslims.

Despite a decline in population in recent decades, Great Bend continues to serve as a service industry and retail commerce center for central Kansas.

Despite failure of the town bank in 1921 and the onset of the Great Depression, the announcement of a new dam project five miles east, there was hope for growth to return.

Despite Amadis ' celebrated fidelity, his childhood sweetheart, Oriana, heiress to the throne of Great Britain, becomes jealous of a rival princess and sends a letter to chastize Amadís.

* Despite its literal meaning, unlike many other titles meaning Great King, neither Maharaja nor Rajadhiraja (' King of Kings '), nor even its equivalent amongst Maharajas, ' Maharajadhiraja ', ever reached the standing required for imperial rank, as each was soon the object of title inflation.

Despite this traditional reputation however, Australians consume significantly less alcohol per capita than people in both Western and Eastern European nations such as Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia, and in Asian nations such as South Korea.

Despite his medical condition, the family managed fairly well financially throughout the Great Depression.

Despite being embarrassed by the end results, Hellhammer shipped their demo to a number of heavy metal magazines, such as Great Britain's Metal Forces ; critical response toward them was generally favorable.

A resurgence of dream pop in the independent music scene occurred in 2008, with the relatively successful indie acts of Silversun Pickups, Beach House, Au Revoir Simone, Tame Impala, Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Bat for Lashes, The Radio Dept., High Places, Lykke Li, Chairlift, Anomie Belle, Grimes, School of Seven Bells, Foxes in Fiction, Rem's Floating Chandelier The xx, Ellie Goulding, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Marissa Nadler, Holly Miranda, iamamiwhoami, Wild Beasts, and An Horse.

Despite his considerable success in fighting the effects of the Great Depression of 1929, his fiscal policies involving reduction of military expenditures created many enemies within the military, and he was among those assassinated by rebelling military officers in the February 26 Incident of 1936.