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

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Despite extensive internationally financed programs to upgrade the harbors at Moroni and Mutsamudu, by the early 1990s only Mutsamudu was operational as a deepwater facility.

Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.

Despite extensive traditional medicinal use, melissa oil was initially prohibited by the International Fragrance Association ( IFRA )' s 43rd amendment, but this restriction appears to have been revisited and relaxed in the 44th amendment.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Despite being a time of great attrition for the religion in England before Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century, the recusant period reaped an extensive harvest of saints and martyrs.

Despite extensive constitutional protections, the Karimov government has actively suppressed the activities of political movements, continues to ban unsanctioned public meetings and demonstrations, and continues to suppress opposition figures.

Despite the extensive intervention of central banks, including partial and total nationalization of major European banks, the crisis of sovereign debt became particularly acute, first in Iceland, though as events of the early 2010s would show, it was not an isolated European example.

Despite the extensive classical art galleries and museums in the city, there is also a contemporary arts scene that has become increasingly prominent in recent times.

Despite his extensive knowledge of ancient history, classics, archaeology and what would be termed today cultural anthropology, he apparently had not even read enough in his nominal major to pass the required examination.

Despite her extensive research, she concluded " it is

Despite extensive research, no trace of documentation of the saying as Murphy's law has been found before 1951 ( see above ).

Despite active research spanning five decades, extensive regulatory actions, and an effective ban on their production since the 1970s, PCBs still persist in the environment and remain a focus of attention.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Despite this, Bizet kept on good terms with his mother-in-law and maintained an extensive correspondence with her.

Despite Binet's extensive research interests and wide breadth of publications, today he is most widely known for his contributions to intelligence.

Despite an extensive tour and an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, the album was not commercially successful, and when the label folded, the band and the label parted ways.

Despite the extensive cuts, the film was still negatively received by audiences, and remained an object of extreme controversy.

Despite extensive police resources channelled towards their capture, a wall of silence created by a mixture of fear and respect in the Shankill community, provided few leads that could be followed.

Despite the extensive project, builders retained the shell of the 1809 – 1812 building.

Despite extensive promotion by Benson, Home At Last generally received negative reviews, including that of Rupert Loydell who described it as " a disorganised, half-produced, and ultimately unsatisfying hotchpotch of songs ".

Despite extensive vaccination in many regions, it remains a major disease of dogs.

Despite his lack of an extensive formal education, Brock appreciated its importance.

* Despite extensive searches, no complete print of the movie has been found.

Despite the shift to a medical model, brain science has not advanced to the point where scientists or clinicians can point to readily discernible pathologic lesions or genetic abnormalities that in and of themselves serve as reliable or predictive biomarkers of a given mental disorder.

Despite the dignity of Reuben's medical credentials, this book was light-hearted in tone.

Despite more than $ 70 million in personal financing, his push to see phenytoin evaluated for alternative uses has had little lasting effect on the medical community.

Despite his parents ' disapproval, in 1824 he formally abandoned his medical studies to pursue a career in music.

Despite the gradual expansion of medical knowledge on SIDS causes and risk factors, definitive diagnosis remains difficult ; infanticide and child abuse cases may be misdiagnosed as SIDS due to lack of evidence, and caretakers of SIDS victims are sometimes falsely accused of foul play.

Despite the availability of effective treatment and advances in medical care, approximately three to five percent of patients who become ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever die from the infection.

Despite this policy there was never any systematic attempt to eliminate the black population in Germany, though some blacks were used in medical experiments, and others mysteriously disappeared.

Despite the success of the Encyclopedia, the Panic of 1837 led the Careys to scale back their catalog and concentrate on medical works.

Despite his medical condition, the family managed fairly well financially throughout the Great Depression.

Despite the stated serious nature of the situation Osho never sought outside medical treatment during his time in the United States, leading the Immigration and Naturalization Service to believe that he had a preconceived intent to remain there.

Despite statements as a Senator, where he called for marijuana decriminalization, promises as a presidential candidate where he stated that marijuana laws needed to be reconsidered and explicit statements as president that he would respect state medical marijuana laws, Barack Obama has presided over 1. 7 million marijuana arrests and a nationwide campaign of raiding medical marijuana dispensaries.

" Despite the dissent's favorable attitude toward state medical marijuana policies, federal law still controls, and for medical marijuana to be considered legal, change must be effected through legislation by Congress.

Despite the high prevalence of English literature on medical anthropology there is an enormous quantity of medical anthropological research available in other languages, in books, or chapters of books and also in periodicals.

Despite the medical setting, medical procedures rarely figured in storylines, with most of the stories focusing more on the personal life of the staff.

Despite medical care from the doctor William Carson, Shanawdithit died of TB in Botwood on June 6, 1829.

Despite Rogue's powers temporarily granting her medical knowledge, she was unable to do so.

Despite gentrification, residents from public housing projects and affluent home owners mingle at a discount supermarket and a community medical clinic.

Despite his inhuman appearance, he is a brilliant man of the arts and sciences ; he is a world authority on biochemistry and genetics, the X-Men's medical doctor, and the science and mathematics instructor at the Xavier Institute ( the X-Men's headquarters and school for young mutants ).

Despite the good intentions, efforts, and limited success of the Bureau, medical treatment of the freedmen was severely deficient.

Despite the introduction of western style medical facilities and the implementation of a National Essential Drug Policy, the PRC has several emerging public health problems, which include problems as a result of pollution, a progressing HIV-AIDS epidemic, hundreds of millions of cigarette smokers, and the increase in obesity among the population.

" Despite the group's engagement in violence, Rush nonetheless worked on several non-violent projects that built support for the Black Panthers in African-American communities, such as coordinating a medical clinic which offered sickle-cell anemia testing on an unprecedented scale.