Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite publication of the recovered copy in western media, for decades, it was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of the secret protocol.

Despite theoretical arguments against the existence of faster-than-light particles, experiments have been conducted to search for them.

Despite the existence of vi clones with enhanced featuresets, sometime before June, 2000, Gunnar Ritter ported Joy's vi codebase ( taken from 2. 11BSD, February, 1992 ) to modern Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux and FreeBSD.

Despite the existence of mills, the drawing of wire down to fine sizes continued to be done manually.

Despite the existence of many of the venues, it was still a difficult task to organize a Winter Olympic Games in less than 18 months.

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Despite such unpromisingly reactionary trappings the Schimmelpenninck regime actually accomplished more in its short existence than the previous regimes had accomplished in the ten years since 1795.

" Despite those remarks, there are still some groups in existence today, although the numbers are dwindling.

Despite the existence of a narrow channel through the beach obstacles, the ramps and mines there accounted for the loss 22 LCVPs, 2 LCI ( L ) s and 4 LCTs.

Despite the existence of a large city of 5 million people, the Community of Madrid still retains some remarkably unspoiled and diverse habitats and landscapes.

Despite a scarcity of archaeological evidence, the existence of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite state has been deduced from a colossal statue erected at Luxor by Pharaoh Ramesses II, in the 13th century BCE, which lists Mu ' ab among a series of nations conquered during a campaign.

Despite being a close ally of the United States and India, Afghanistan has no relations with Israel and has criticized its existence several times.

Despite the state's interest in protecting the public and so-called " learned professions " from having unschooled persons practising them, and the state's insistence on enforcing a monopoly, the existence of laws governing ( or defining ) " unauthorized practice of Law " does not, ipso facto mean that they will be enforced.

Despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, now a tourist attraction, there is absolutely no evidence for Gelert's existence.

Despite very limited sympathy, American society began at least to acknowledge the existence of a sizable population of gays.

Despite sizable patronage, passenger services, as well as freight, operated in the red, prompting the state government to reassess its commitment to existence of the Michigan Northern Railway.

Despite a reduction in the area covered during the ten years of its existence, the company grew its core fleet from fewer than 300 passenger vehicles to a total of 379-a capacity increase of over 28 %.

Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.

Despite the decline, several appropriate technology organizations are still existence, including the ITDG which became Practical Action after a name change in 2005.

Despite the absence of an actualized sweeping change to the existence of large industrial conglomerates in Japan, the zaibatsu's previous vertically integrated chain of command, ending with a single family, has now widely been displaced by the horizontal relationships of association and coordination characteristic of.

Despite these pressures, consumer price inflation has remained low ( 2. 2 % according to the Central Bank of Malta 2nd Quarterly Report in 2007 ), reflecting the impact of a fixed exchange rate policy ( 100 % hard peg to the euro, in preparation for currency changeover ) and lingering price controls.

Despite investment in fixed lines, the density of main lines remains the lowest in Europe with nearly ten lines per 100 people ( 2008 ); however, cellular telephone use is widespread and generally effective.

Despite this the force's character had been fixed according to Irish nationalist activist and author Michael Farrell.

Despite Shatner's doubts, Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be fixed by something only available in the present day ( the Star Trek characters ' past ).

( Despite this, it is still useful to consider the time-reversal non-invariance in a local sense when the external field is held fixed, as when the magneto-optic effect is analyzed.

Despite the end of official colonialism, the value of Senegalese currency continued to be fixed by France, the language of learning remained French, and Senghor ruled the country with French political advisors.

Despite his background as a screenwriter, one of Wong's trademarks as a director is that he works largely through improvisation and experimentation involving the actors and crew rather than adhering to a fixed screenplay.

Despite the disadvantage in numbers as well as attacking a fixed position, Williams ' and Macdonell's small force was driving the opposing force to the edge of the gorge on which the redan was situated, and seemed on the verge of success before the Americans were able to regroup and stand firm.

Despite the re-branding, the ' Scottish Executive ' still uses the original description for a number of purposes ( s. 44 of the Scotland Act defines the nature of the body but does not use the words " shall be known as " with regard to a name as is the case with various other bodies whose names are thus fixed by statute ).

Despite having abandoned the bridge the previous year, saying he favoured a tunnel crossing at Silvertown, Johnson resurrected the project, renamed Gallions Reach, as a lower capacity crossing that could start as a ferry service, but which could be upgraded to a fixed link later.

Despite forming the effective boundary of the metropolitan region of Sydney for its entire length, there are very few fixed crossings of the Hawkesbury River proper.

Despite their fixed presence at state buildings and their patrol cars prowling the parking lots of those buildings there were many Californians who were still unaware that California had a State Police until its merger with the California Highway Patrol received major state news coverage.

Despite Bernard's best attempts, at first the Humiliati had no fixed rule.

Despite his reputation as a gambler, there is no material evidence that Collins ever fixed the result of any cricket match.

Despite the disadvantage in numbers as well as attacking a fixed position, Williams ' and Macdonell's small force was driving the opposing force to the edge of the gorge on which the Redan was situated, and seemed on the verge of success before the Americans were able to regroup and stand firm.

Despite a second-place finish in 1968 – 69, the team was never able to provide even a rudimentary repeat of their level of play throughout the season, which eventually fixed their demotion several rounds before the end of the season.

Despite the use of pilot-selected turn-points made possible by GPS, tasks over a fixed course are still used frequently.

Despite this the rules were not entirely fixed with changes experimented with throughout the season.