Despite these advances, China's telecommunications infrastructure has not been able to keep up with demand and has not spread to the relatively poorer regions.

Despite the marginalised Left Opposition's demand for the restoration of Soviet democracy, Stalin developed a bureaucratic, authoritarian government, that was condemned by democratic socialists, anarchists and Trotskyists for undermining the initial socialist ideals of the Bolshevik Russian Revolution.

Despite the opening of new universities and increased enrollment, the state-directed education system did not adequately prepare for increasing market demand in the areas of agriculture, light industry, services, and foreign investment.

Despite stating this was a response to consumer demand to improve taste and texture, there was no " new improved recipe " claim placed on New Zealand labels.

Despite enormous public demand, Plant declined a $ 200 million offer to tour with Led Zeppelin after the 2007 show.

Despite the continent-wide shortage of such currency, merchants began to demand the same from their local business partners, including those merchants operating in the market towns in the state's interior.

Despite inability to attract a major label after Atlantic, there was still demand for public performances, especially in Europe.

Despite the advent of low-cost digital synthesizers and samplers, the Minimoog remains in high demand with producers and performers of electronic pop and electronic music.

Despite the fact that Nordau was Jewish and a key figure in the Zionist movement ( Lombroso was also Jewish ), his theory of artistic degeneracy would be seized upon by German National Socialists during the Weimar Republic as a rallying point for their anti-Semitic and racist demand for Aryan purity in art.

Despite the low demand for luxury motorcycles during the Great Depression, Indian not only continued production of the Four, but continued to develop the motorcycle.

Despite the efforts of traders to prop up demand, the market for tulips evaporated.

Despite its modern demand as a delicacy exceeding supply ( particularly in Norway ) the cloudberry is primarily a wild plant.

Despite demand from high-end users for more PCI slots in a G3 powered computer, Apple decided not to develop the prototype ( dubbed " Power Express ") into a shipping product, sometimes nicknamed the " Molar Mac " due to its resemlance to a tooth, that was made available only to educational markets.

Despite the high price of the vehicle, Peugeot anticipated demand for around 15, 000-20, 000 Peugeot 106 Electriques each year, with an expected total production run of 100, 000 vehicles.

Despite being in demand, she does few films, stating that " I read very few scripts I'm passionate about ... Maybe one in every twenty or thirty.

Despite these challenges, Alaska satisfied demand by adding nonstop service to Guadalajara, Mexico and Hawaii ( Maui ) while Aeromexico ’ s ( 2011 ) debut reestablished foreign-flag service with daily nonstop service to Guadalajara, Mexico.

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 concerns about supply and demand for paintings, the remoteness of many of the artists, and the poverty and health issues experienced in the communities, there are widespread estimates of an industry worth close to half a billion dollars ( Aus ) and growing rapidly.

Despite intense user demand for a faster laptop CPU than the G4, Apple never used a G5 series CPU in their PowerBook laptops.

Despite its advantages, demand has been suppressed by a lack of wastewater treatment capacity.

Despite a surge in enrolments and an unmet demand for public high school places in the area, the Vaucluse campus was sold in February 2007 by the Government of New South Wales for $ 30M to become a seniors community development site.

Despite the burgeoning demand for his talents, however, Struzan was still only earning $ 150 to $ 250 per album cover.

Despite the lack of a recording contract, the group still found itself in demand as a live act and played in clubs and at outdoor festivals.

Despite running the Ingolstadt production line at full capacity, supply fell short of demand to such an extent that during the summer of 1970 an additional production line for Audi 100s was set up in Volkswagen's own Wolfsburg plant, which made it the first water-cooled car to be produced in Germany's ( and by some criteria the world's ) largest car plant.

Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.

Despite the many avenues for the exchange of ideas between faculty and administration, complaints of a lack of communication persist.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

'' Despite Company threats, duly carried through, to cut off supplies of powder, ball, and thread for fishing nets, about 350 persons stayed in the village.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

Despite Giffen's warning, Palfrey still had plans for freeing his slaves in Louisiana.

Despite his personal distaste for obesity ( `` disgusting '' ), Dr. Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat.

Despite the bitterness of the defeat for Lincoln, his articulation of the issues gave him a national political reputation.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Despite this, the eggs are laid singly, a behaviour not conducive for external fertilisation.

Despite the large number of species in order Asterales, they do not compare in economic benefit for mankind to the Poales or to the Fabaceae.

Despite these facts, most mathematicians accept the axiom of choice as a valid principle for proving new results in mathematics.

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 these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

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

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

Despite trailing the Nintendo Entertainment System in terms of number of units sold, the 7800 was a profitable enterprise for Atari Corp., benefiting largely from Atari ’ s name and the system's 2600 compatibility.

Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite a brief spell at a traditional preparatory school at the age of seven for one year, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá received no formal education.