Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.

Despite these tax increases, compared to developed countries, Honduras has low tax rates with particularly low property taxes.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite zero interest rates and expansion of the money supply to encourage borrowing, Japanese corporations in aggregate opted to pay down their debts from their own business earnings rather than borrow to invest as firms typically do.

Despite relatively recent evolutionary divergence ( 90 million years ), the extent of molecular divergence between centrics and pennates indicates rapid evolutionary rates within the Bacillariophyceae compared to other eukaryotic groups.

Despite its reputation, Montgomery's crime rates compare favorably to other large cities in the state.

Despite these jarring statistics, nurturant parenting style is associated with lower rates of relationship violence.

Despite this, newer formats such as DVD-Audio and Super Audio Compact Disc ( SACD ), have sampling rates of 88. 2 kHz or 96 kHz or even higher.

Despite the large numbers of pamphlets and broadsheets in circulation, literacy rates were still poor.

Despite efforts of international transplantation societies, it is not possible to access an accurate source on the number, rates and outcomes of all forms of transplantation globally ; the best that we can achieve is estimations.

Despite this and a promise later the same day to raise base rates again to 15 percent, dealers kept selling pounds, convinced that the government would not stick with its promise.

Despite high rates of infection in certain areas of the world, the overall frequency of H. pylori infection is declining.

Despite the success of chemotherapy for osteosarcoma, it has one of the lowest survival rates for pediatric cancer.

Despite this, Kiryat Gat has one of Israel's highest unemployment rates.

Despite consumer interest rates being at, historically, an all time low, many banks have moved from a community-investment based profit model to a customer fee based profit model.

Despite these defences, Hornsea's primarily cliff-based shoreline is eroding at one of the fastest-known rates in Europe.

Despite this, Charity Watch rates AARP a " B -".

Despite frequent complaints of oppression and extortion from the taxpayers, it is not obvious that official tax rates were very high.

Despite worse absence rates, public sector teachers enjoy salaries at least five times higher than private sector teachers.

Despite the huge increases in life spans, China's population growth has been stabilizing due to lowering birth rates since enacting the one or two-child policies in the late 1970s.

Despite the potential benefits, most adults with GH deficiency are not being treated due to a combination of factors such as unwillingness of some adults to seek medical care, unacceptability of injections, inadequate insurance coverage, and significantly lower rates of diagnosis and treatment offered by internist endocrinologists.

Despite the language of the study, however, the results appear to have been directly conflicted by the actual suicide rates in subsequent years.

Despite widespread poverty and overall high crime rates for the quadrant, there are Black middle class neighborhoods, such as Hillcrest, Penn Branch, and Fort Dupont.

Despite reports on ABC News, Truthorfiction. com rates these reports as " fiction ".

Despite being attached to the curse, Colavito said that he never placed a curse on the Indians but that the trade was prompted by a salary dispute with Lane.

Despite their proximity to Qatar ( Suwād al Janūbīyah is only 1. 4 km from the Qatari mainland at the peninsula of Ras Abruq, while Rubud Al Gharbiyah, the island closest to the main island of Bahrain, lies at a distance of 19. 7 km to it ), the islands belong to Bahrain but were the subject of a dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.

Despite these definitions, Portugal's border with Spain remains a unresolved territorial dispute between the two countries.

Despite these events occurring on the same day, Prince's attorney has called it pure coincidence and stated that the site did not close due to the trademark dispute.

Despite having coached the Rangers to a regular season first place finish and the Stanley Cup, head coach Mike Keenan left after a dispute with General Manager Neil Smith.

Despite the criticism targeting his linguistic theories and despite the priority dispute with Bartholin, Rudbeck remained a national icon in Sweden for many years.

Despite the surface appearance of a homogeneous political culture, there is considerable dispute among residents over planning.

Despite attempts to resolve the dispute including mediation, the district was forced to file a lawsuit against the landlord.

Despite well over a century of dispute, controversy remains active.

Despite the dispute between Erlandson and Love, the new Hole album was released in April 2010 and the band toured Europe and North America in support of the record.

Despite such efforts, Britain eventually ceded all claim to land south of the 49th parallel of latitude west of the Rockies to the United States as resolution to the Oregon boundary dispute.

Despite Göring's apology after their previous dispute, it did not improve the relationship between the two men.

Despite a 1947 United Nations agreement that the obelisk would be shipped back, Italy balked, resulting in a long-standing diplomatic dispute with the Ethiopian government, which views the obelisk as a symbol of national identity.

Despite initially amicable relations, in 1878 the two religious leaders had a dispute motivated by Sheikh Sharif's resentment of his former student's growing popularity.

Despite having had to reprimand Charbonneau with regard to his duties ( October 27, 1805 ) and having intervened in a marital dispute in which Charbonneau hit his wife ( Sacagawea ) ( August 14 of that year ), Clark offered to set up Charbonneau and his family in St. Louis after the expedition.

Despite now he had his own district, Bolesław didn't pursue a foreign policy, who continue under the hands of his brother, a fact revealed during the dispute with Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia for the possession of Ladzka, who was given to him by Henry II the Pious as a dowry of his daughter Constance-Casimir I's second wife -; this decision wasn't recognized by Władysław Odonic's sons, but eventually they reconciled and even signed and an alliance with the Kuyavian Duke, which effectively ended with any attempt to change the ownership of the disputed land.

Despite this dispute, the West saw them as a stabilizing, unthreatening force and so invested heavily in the nation under William Tubman's leadership ( 1944 – 1971 ).

Despite ending the dispute, Ray's image was severely tarnished.

Despite prior connections to Aizu, his descendants dispute that he served as a spy.

Despite many prior suggested references, the first definite mention of the game is found in a 1598 court case concerning an ownership dispute over a plot of common land in Guildford, Surrey.

Despite instructions not to do so, the crew ( perhaps inadvertently ) photographed Area 51, causing a minor dispute between various government agencies as to whether the photographs showing this secret facility should be released.

Despite this, PayPal is in a very strong position since in most cases it is able to freeze the amount of money and resolve the dispute providing an instant and effective enforcement.

Despite these preparations, only 35 out of a total of 42 texts were published in La Vogue between May 13 and June 21 due to an obscure dispute between those associated with the project.

Despite this, the dispute continued, with both sides initiating legal action against the other.