Despite this, most of these later factions claimed political descent from Cannon and the SWP majority, not from earlier opposition factions and splinter parties.

Despite being of royal descent, as the younger son of a cadet branch Pierre's early prospects were that of a minor noble, with a few scattered fiefs in the Île-de-France and Champagne.

Despite their political differences, he maintained a friendship with Fidel Castro, himself of Galician descent, who visited him in Galicia in 1992.

Despite the loss of the further history of Manasseh and Ephraim, several modern day groups claim descent from them, with varying levels of academic and rabbinical support.

Despite his German surname, he was not of German descent as is sometimes written: the name was given to his family by a 19th century landlord after a famous Prussian Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

Despite the royal government's disapproval of his ultramontane views it was impressed by his wise and polite ways, his excellent manners as well as his noble descent.

Despite their best efforts, the DC-8's descent could not be completely checked, and it touched down in shallow water short of the runway.

Despite this, organizers later stated that the final calculated rate of descent of the balloon had been about, and that the team's survival was " unlikely ".

Despite the wet road the descent was rapid and broke up the peloton.

Despite being of Jamaican and Irish descent, he has so far opted to represent England internationally ; although he has played at under-21 level, he has not played for the senior team.

Despite crashing on a fast descent and riding with black eyes due to his injuries, Hinault won and publicly again stated his promise to help LeMond the following year.

Despite having an influential presence and distinctive cultural bond, only 20, 000 Canadian persons of Swedish descent speak Swedish.

Despite the fact that the Genoese assimilated and shifted their language into Valencian and, later on, Spanish ( which are both the languages currently spoken on the islet ), the Genoese descent of the settlers can still be noticed today in the surnames of Italian origin common on the islet.

Despite difficulties with the Inquisition on account of his Jewish descent, Rojas was a successful lawyer and became mayor of Talavera de la Reina, where he lived for the last three decades of his life.

Despite the traditional genealogical assertion of descent from the Lees of Shropshire, some evidence seems to point elsewhere.

Despite their innovation of putting the engine behind the driver, the Coopers and their Chief Designer Owen Maddock were generally resistant to developing their cars.

Despite the small engine of the Mustang I, Lunn was the only Dearborn engineer to have some experience with a mid-engined car.

Despite a potentially workable design, there were still substantial difficulties in constructing a full-scale engine.

Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of 1 – 2 hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

VAZ 21099 4-dr saloon, rear view Despite NAMI ( National Automobile Institute ) having allowed the involvement of Porsche engineers in the engine development, the Samara never achieved the same success as the Riva, even though it did prove to be a robust car with a modern style and an initially competitive price.

Despite being less powerful, this engine was more efficient, allowing lower fuel consumption and better top speed, at the price of decreased acceleration.

Despite construction of the 2-8-2 engine River Esk in 1923 and the rebuilding of Muriel into the 0-8-2 River Irt in 1927, the line was short of motive power.

Despite this, Montoya led more laps than anyone else and took the maiden victory for a Toyota engine in the series.

Despite possessing features that, today, are considered limited ( such as a 320 × 200 pixel resolution ), the versatility and ease of use offered by this engine have created a community of users who remain active to the present day.

Despite the shortcomings of length, weight, bearing friction, and torsional vibrations that led to the straight-8's post-war demise, the straight-8 was the performance engine design of choice from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, and continued to excel in motorsport until the mid-1950s.

Despite the advantage of having a lower center of gravity than a V12, that advantage can be somewhat offset by the need for a higher mounting height in the engine bay to provide clearance for the exhaust system ( six runners on either side ).

Despite possessing, this engine could not be turbo-supercharged and Republic finally modified the design again, this time to accommodate the enormous Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, which produced.

Despite a poor start caused by his engine slipping into anti-stall, he did well to recover and lost only a couple of positions at the start.

Despite employing an updated version of the engine, interesting and oft-unique NPC selection and welcome gameplay tweaks such as an ' All Attack ' button and the ability to use polearms from second rank, it was not well received.

Despite these spectacular results, problems with the production, supply, and safe handling of hydrogen peroxide prevented wide-scale implementation of Walter ’ s revolutionary engine.

Despite the separate chassis and independent rear suspension, the differential, hubs, brakes, engine and gearbox were all common to the last Standard Pennants.

Despite these limitations, the engine represented a technological leap from id's previous Wolfenstein 3D engine.

Despite the larger brakes, braking performance worsened with the extra weight of the 6. 75 engine.

Despite Ford's engines being well regarded for their ease of service, the Endura-E has a very awkward placing for its oil filter, which is quite high up, at the back of the engine and facing from left to right rather than pointing downwards or out – meaning it is very difficult to access from underneath the car ( without a mechanic's ramp ), and despite being very short, the can-type oil filter still manages to protrude past the tip of the adjacent starter motor, meaning it is very difficult to remove using chain-type grips.

Despite the fact that the supercharger was in the tail and the engine was in the nose, the arrangement worked quite well — providing a system that was durable and less susceptible to battle damage.

Despite Porsche's direct involvement in the Ibiza's engines, it was only after paying a royalty of 7 German marks per car sold back to Porsche that SEAT gained the right to put the ' System Porsche ' inscription on the engine blocks.

Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming.

Despite the user-friendliness of the additional instructions, analysis by 6809 programming gurus indicates that many of the new instructions are actually slower than the equivalent 6809 code, especially in tight loops.

Despite this, reruns of sports broadcasts have found a niche, and networks such as MSG Network, ESPN Classic and NFL Network currently have a significant portion of programming time devoted to reruns of live sportscasts.

Despite its minimalistic nature, it has become the parental formal language of an implemented and ( for entertainment ) used programming language called Brainfuck.

Despite the positive aspects, ultimately Zawinski returned to programming in C " since it's still the only way to ship portable programs.

Despite the need for high programming and erasing voltages, virtually all flash chips today require only a single supply voltage, and produce the high voltages via on-chip charge pumps.

Despite STV's explanation of expense, ITV plc were angered by the decision, as a recent schedule change had made The Bill central to their programming, and broadcast the programmes on ITV3 as well to ensure Scottish viewers could see the programmes.

Despite its relatively small size, ABC found increasing success with television programming aimed at the emerging " Baby Boomer " culture.

Despite no history of radio programming to draw on and perennial cash shortages, DuMont was an innovative and creative network.

Despite the rumours, it always seemed that CTV was unlikely to be interested in the nightly playoff coverage currently provided by the CBC, since weeknight games in April and May would conflict with new episodes of CTV's slate of American programming.

Despite the production values he brought to NCAA college football, Scherick wanted low-budget ( as in inexpensive broadcasting rights ) sports programming that could attract and retain an audience.

Despite an increase in transmission power, WHLD found that Air America with local morning talk format unsustainable and dropped the format for the Totally Gospel Radio Network programming in December 2006.

Despite these programming additions, Cinemax had remained foremost a movie channel.

Despite her early setbacks as a pilot, her programming abilities are top notch from the very start, and she eventually combines the two in order to become even more formidable in the cockpit.

Despite preparing vast amounts of audience research, programming proposals and an extremely comprehensive application document for the ITC, the TVS board – now minus its founder James Gatward – calculated that it needed to outbid all opposition in order to retain its licence.

Despite its conceptual simplicity, Q is a full-featured functional programming language with a modern syntax, currying, dynamic typing using an object-oriented type system, exception handling, POSIX multithreading, a comprehensive standard library, and an interface to the C programming language.

Despite his destruction at the end of the film series, Agent Smith ( or at least the remnants of his programming ) managed to return and made several appearances inside the movie's official continuation, the MMORPG The Matrix Online.

Despite her parent's best efforts to encourage a direction towards classical music, the environment in Nashville, plus the early local programming on radio, convinced her that she wanted to play piano in the honky-tonk style.

Despite its awkwardness, this approach did fit well with the existing system's memory management scheme, and applications needed no special programming to work with Switcher.

Despite its minimalistic nature, it has become the parental formal language of an implemented and ( for entertainment ) used programming language called Brainfuck.

Despite the limited animation techniques that were used to produce the series, He-Man was notable for breaking the boundaries of censorship that had severely restricted the narrative scope of children's TV programming in the 1970s.

Despite this, both presenter James Whale and head of programming Bill Ridley defend the station for having invited Hamza onto the programme.

Despite its success, some TV channels have had to move the show to night programming or drop it completely after complaints by parents associations who claimed Shin-chan was not appropriate for children.