Despite its small area and few resources, the absorption of the territory by Japan would to some extent alleviate Japan's problem of an increasing population but an ever decreasing amount of available land to house it.

Despite it being much shorter than Behind Enemy Lines, it is a much more difficult game containing levels on a far greater scale to the extent of being comparable to those that were to be seen in Commandos 2.

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 relatively small size, Tunisia has great environmental diversity due to its north-south extent.

Despite the extent of Israel's quick military gains, for the first four days the general population in the Arab states believed the fabrications of Arab radio stations which claimed an Arab victory was near.

Despite, and certainly to some extent because of, this bloodbath, the Liu Song produced much great poetry ( shi 詩 ) and other poetic genres, notably the rhapsody, fu 賦.

Despite stabilising the GDR to some extent, he never succeeded in raising the standard of living in the country to a level comparable to that in the West.

Despite minimal Congressional support, though, he developed American influence in the Hawaiian Islands, as well as in Japan and China to some extent.

Despite the embarrassing misconceptions, Oscar forms a close bond with Amy as they continue to spend time together-to the extent that Amy moves in with him after she is kicked out of her apartment-Amy sharing various personal stories with Oscar.

Despite the increase in tensions due to the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911, Bethmann Hollweg did improve relations with Britain to some extent, working with British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to alleviate tensions during the Balkan Crises of 1912-1913, and negotiating treaties over an eventual partition of the Portuguese colonies and the Berlin-Baghdad railway.

Despite keen investigation by the media, the extent of Roussel's wealth remains unknown.

Despite being mutually unintelligible, the four languages are all called Bikol ( and to a lesser extent, Bicolano ) by their speakers.

Despite well over a decade of experience with RCU, the exact extent of its applicability is still a research topic.

Despite converging agreement about the definition of persistent vegetative state, recent reports have raised concerns about the accuracy of diagnosis in some patients, and the extent to which, in a selection of cases, residual cognitive functions may remain undetected and patients are diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.

Despite being seen as distinct in its manners and customs by contemporary Greeks, the cultures of Greece, and later Rome, influenced the civilisation to a great extent.

Despite the connection to this general geographic region, it is difficult to determine from the Torah the exact boundaries of the tribe, to the extent that it is even uncertain whether Asher even had continuous territory.

Despite weekly breakfasts together there is a certain extent of rivalry between the two yet-defined posts.

Despite the extent of the defences trading activity rather than military purpose was the predominant use of the fort over most of its period of occupation.

Despite this, he refused, disliking the National Liberal policies and the extent to which they had aligned themselves with the Conservative Party.

Despite the Amsterdam ( North-Holland ) origin of Beerenburg, the drink became the most popular in Friesland and, to a lesser extent, in Groningen and Drenthe.

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 resembling the IIx to a great extent and providing the same performance, the IIcx was quieter ( due to its quieter fan on a smaller power supply ) than its predecessor.

Despite its name, it also covered Football League One and Football League Two matches, albeit to a lesser extent than Championship matches.

Despite this problem, this threat was expected and consequently could be controlled to some extent.

Despite a few timid attempts to emulate this literature in English, it can be argued that few writers seem to connect either with the landscape or the literary tradition < ref >.</ ref > The one exception, to some extent, can be considered to be Dylan Thomas.

Despite its illegality due to the Anti-Socialist Laws of 1878, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's use of the limited universal male suffrage were " potent " new methods of struggle which demonstrated their growing strength and forced the dropping of the Anti-Socialist legislation in 1890, Engels argued.

Despite international agreement concerning the inhumanity and illegality of forced sterilization, it has been suggested that Government of Uzbekistan continues to pursue such programs.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Despite sacrificing around 10, 000 of his men, Alaric received little recognition from the Emperor.

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

Despite this, the show was well received by critics.

Despite student enthusiasm for Keggy, the mascot has only received approval from the student government.

" Despite his success in an " A movie ," Bogart received a tepid twenty-six week contract at $ 550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of " B movie " crime dramas.

Despite the critical accolades Cotten received for his performance, he was again snubbed by the Academy.

Despite having received no military education, Julian proved to be an able military commander, obtaining an battle of Strasbourg | important victory in Gaul and leading a Roman army under the walls of the Sassanid Empire's capital.

Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

Despite any reproaches from his master, The Education of the Children of Clovis was honorably received by critics and artists alike and was eventually purchased and subsequently given to King Leopold of Belgium.

Despite the critically acclaimed Virtua Fighter 5 releasing to very little fanfare in 2007, its update Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown has received much more attention in 2012 due to the renewed interest in fighting games.

Despite being in pain he received visitors and quoted hymns, especially Cardinal Newman's ' Praise to the Holiest in the Height '.

Despite her years of service, she had never received a regular salary and was for years denied compensation.

Despite supporting mostly liberal legislation during his career as a consumer advocate, Nader received more votes from Republicans than Democrats.

Hereafter received mixed reviews from critics, with the consensus at Rotten Tomatoes being, " Despite a thought-provoking premise and Clint Eastwood's typical flair as director, Hereafter fails to generate much compelling drama, straddling the line between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium.

Despite having only 17 minutes of screen time, Tracy was highly praised for his performance and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite never having been a member of the Braves, Rose received the loudest ovation of the All-Century team members from the crowd at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia.

Despite its simple narrative style, it was received well in the literary world.

Despite the large part he played in shaping the film, Jaglom only received credit as an " Editorial Consultant ".

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

Despite the small budget, dire predictions, and little help from distributor Orion Pictures, Hoosiers grossed over $ 28 million and received two Oscar nominations ( Dennis Hopper for Best Supporting Actor and Jerry Goldsmith for Best Original Score ).< ref >

Despite the show's recognition of Kelley as one of its stars he was frustrated by the greater attention that Shatner received as its lead actor, and Nimoy received because of " Spockamania " among fans.