Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite the critical role that dendrites play in the computational tendencies of neurons, very little is known about the process by which dendrites orient themselves in vivo and are compelled to create the intricate branching pattern unique to each specific neuronal class.

Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.

Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.

Despite the critical accolades Cotten received for his performance, he was again snubbed by the Academy.

Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public.

Despite its decline in facial popularity, realists continue to influence a wide spectrum of jurisprudential schools today, including critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, sociology of law and law and economics.

Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite its mixed critical reception, Kid Icarus is a cult classic, and had shipped 1. 76 million copies by late 2003.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

Despite this, Foot was very critical of the Alliance, accusing them of " siphoning " Labour support and enabling the Tories to win more seats.

Despite critical success, sales lagged, and the publication schedule change from monthly to bimonthly.

Despite the classical precedents, which Machiavelli was not the only one to promote in his time, Machiavelli's realism and willingness to argue that good ends justify bad things, is seen as a critical stimulus towards some of the most important theories of modern politics.

Despite a largely negative critical reaction, the game sold in excess of a million copies.

Despite the common belief that Edison did not use mathematics, analysis of his notebooks reveal that he was an astute user of mathematical analysis conducted by his assistants such as Francis Robbins Upton, for example, determining the critical parameters of his electric lighting system including lamp resistance by an analysis of Ohm's Law, Joule's Law and economics.

Despite the more favourable critical response, Cradle of Life suffered a disappointing opening weekend, as it debuted in fourth place with a take of $ 21. 7 million, a 55 % drop from the original's opening gross of $ 47. 7 million.

Despite the overwhelmingly positive critical reception for their first 4 albums, the band was frustrated by its lack of wider mainstream success.

Despite their long history, batch applications are still critical in most organizations in large part because many core business processes are inherently batch-oriented.

Despite critical acclaim, Gattaca was not a box office success but it is said to have crystallized the debate over tampering with human genetics.

Despite the novel receiving unfavorable reviews and a subject deemed potentially unsuitable for film, The Bridges of Madison County was a commercial and critical success.

Despite Finnish resistance, a peace treaty was signed in March 1940, wherein Finland ceded some key territory to the Soviet Union, including the Karelian Isthmus, containing Finland's second-largest city, Viipuri, and the critical defensive structure of the Mannerheim Line.

Despite a weak critical reception the film was a popular success, outgrossing its predecessor and confirming the strength of the partnership.

Despite the demonstrated efficacy of awards in changing behavior, their use in education has been criticized by proponents of self-determination theory, who claim that praise and other rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.

Despite praise from critics and fans for her vocals on the three-month Street Angel tour, Nicks was crushed by the focus on her weight and the poor reception of the album itself.

Despite famously heckling Slough, John Betjeman's praise for the Town Hall's architecture as ' a striving for unity out of chaos ' in 1948 has never been so relevant as today.

Despite the film's kitschiness and melodrama, critics today still highly praise The Champ.

Despite this lack of promotion, many critics did praise the book, and a large number of them seemed most affected by the character of Hurstwood, such as the New Haven Journal Courier, which proclaimed, “ One of the most affecting passages is where Hurstwood falls, ruined, disgraced ”.

According to Tim Newby: " Despite the endless parade of fans and praise, Burke always seemed to be two steps ahead or one step behind his contemporaries.

Despite the lack of consensus, by the end of 2000 the album was appearing frequently in critics ' top ten lists as praise for Radiohead's experimentation appeared to outweigh reservations.

Despite initial praise as providing " CD sound quality ", both Beta Hi-Fi and VHS HiFi suffered from " carrier buzz ", where high frequency information bled into the audio carriers, creating momentary " buzzing " and other audio flaws.

Despite this, his Warner cartoons have seen renewed praise in decades since for their surrealistic qualities, energetic and outrageous animation, and irreverent humor.

Despite his belief that the Bible was fallible, Martineau continued to hold the view, which was not so much characteristic of the man as of the school in which he had been trained, that " in no intelligible sense can any one who denies the supernatural origin of the religion of Christ be termed a Christian ," which term, he explained, was used not as " a name of praise ," but simply as " a designation of belief.

" Despite very little praise from critics, the album was sold well, and was certified " Gold " in sales by the RIAA.

Despite this, Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise for the striker, who scored three goals in 13 matches in all competitions during his three-month stay, saying, " He's been fantastic for us, his professionalism, his attitude, everything he's done has been excellent.

Despite praise from other Imagineers, Disney did not like the idea of a run-down building in his pristine park, hence his well-known saying, " We'll take care of the outside and let the ghosts take care of the inside.

Despite praise from some critics, the album was a commercial failure.

Despite the critical praise, Rimsky-Korsakov was annoyed that the other aspects of the piece were being ignored.

Despite the initial mixed criticism, Gremlins has continued to receive critical praise over the years.

Despite initial critical praise and fearless performances from its leads ( notably Rhys-Meyers and McGregor, who performed all their musical numbers ), the film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences.

Despite his talent and the praise of various contemporaries, Købke had never been inundated with commissions.

Despite the overall negative response, the books carry blurbs of praise from some newspapers and well known sci-fi authors, such as Orson Scott Card and A. E. van Vogt.

Despite the praise and the participation of the Oscar-nominated Polley, a major movie star in Canada, the film was a flop at the box office, and was not released on DVD.

Despite his box office success, he has found little critical praise, and has often been parodied and / or labeled as the worst working director.

Despite their mutual estrangement, Vinícius would afterwards write two sonnets-the first in 1939 (" Sonnet to Octavio de Faria "), the second during the 1960s (" Octavio ") in ( ambivalent ) praise of his old friend.

Despite the initial hype and critical praise, total sales for Elbow Beach were weaker than the previous two productions, and the album peaked at number twelve.

Despite the relatively short life of the band, The Teardrop Explodes has continued to sustain interest and praise since its demise and the band ’ s back catalogue of recordings has been reissued several times over the last thirty years.