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 the challenges of the Great Depression, the Compton reforms " renewed confidence in the ability of the Institute to develop leadership in science as well as in engineering.

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 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 such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite this show of force, far more free-soilers than pro-slavery settlers migrated to Kansas.

Despite the arrival of additional settlers, including whites, slaves and free blacks, from Bermuda and the receipt of relief supplies from Virginia and New England, the Eleuthera colony struggled for many years because of poor soil, fighting between settlers, and conflict with the Spanish.

Despite occasional Indian attacks, Boone returned to the Clinch Valley and brought his family and other settlers to Boonesborough on September 8, 1775.

Despite the Norse settlers ' constant struggle, at Norse Greenland's peak at c. 1126 the inhabitants numbered between 2000 and 4000.

” Despite the settlers ’ intentions, towns failed to develop for two reasons: the generally low level of economic activity in the area and the competition from plantation settlements already providing the kind of marketing and purchasing services typically offered by a town.

Despite the Irish ancestry of Dublin's first non-indigenous settlers, the town, like most of Middle Georgia, by the late 19th century had evolved from mixture of ethnicities.

Despite land cessions, the settlers continued to encroach on Choctaw territory, leading to conflict.

Despite the many hardships that greeted Glastenbury settlers, newcomers continued to arrive in small numbers, and the population grew slowly to 76 in 1810.

Despite their many years of acceptance of the white settlers, and the calming

Despite this, early settlers in Dedham, Massachusetts, found a way to use the Charles to power mills.

Despite the hardships created by the nature of the Nullarbor, European settlers were determined to cross the plain.

Despite the hardships of pioneer life, settlers came to Vaughan in considerable numbers.

Despite the peace, three settlers were murdered after the end of hostilities.

Despite being recognized as one of the " Five Civilized Tribes ", the Choctaw were under pressure from encroaching European-American settlers.

Despite lobbying by the British government, no other donor was willing to help finance the purchase of land and only the African Development Bank, EU and Kuwait Fund to pay for the other investments required by the new settlers.

Despite the fact the man was trying to kidnap native women and children to sell as slaves in Virginia, the colonists became furious ( partly due to earlier Indian atrocities against settlers on the mainland by a related tribe ).

Despite the policy, the settlers were consuming significant food resources and taking over areas that pushed the Shoshone increasingly into areas of marginal food production.

Despite some hostility on the part of ministers like Increase Mather, dance music was popular in the New England colonial era, especially by the early 18th century, as the local population boomed with an influx of more settlers.

Despite the fears initially felt by the Pilgrims, the Pokanoket quickly reached a pact of peace with the new settlers.

Despite its poor potential for agricultural development ; attracted by the rich fisheries and lush forest, settlers found the land known then as the “ Indian or Saugeen Peninsula ” to be irresistible.

Despite the earlier English settlers, who were part of the 1820 Settlers, later on a large number of both Scottish and Afrikaans people soon immigrated here too.

Despite certain myths regarding his background, Ryan was neither orphaned nor penniless as a youth and he traced his ancestry to Protestant Anglo-Irish settlers who came to North America in the seventeenth century, not during the Potato Famine emigration.