Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.

Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward.

Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.

Despite its failure to control the rodents, the cane toad was introduced to Puerto Rico in the early 20th century in the hope that it would counter a beetle infestation ravaging the sugarcane plantations.

Despite its relatively recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration and the guideline recommendations, digoxin use is decreasing in patients with heart failure, likely the result of several factors.

Despite the failure of this coup, the United States became concerned over Honduran instability.

Despite the failure of his attempt at unifying the nation under his rule, Kim Il-sung considered the war a victory in the sense that he remained in power.

Despite this, the manuscript tradition of Plautus is poorer than that of any other ancient dramatist, something not helped by the failure of scholia on Plautus to survive.

Despite the failure it was purchased by the Liverpool & Manchester, where it served for two years before being leased to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.

Despite the ferocity of the Baron, the company is a failure.

Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.

Despite his failure to produce the results that Henry wanted, there is little doubt that Wolsey was in support of the divorce ; however, he never planned that Henry would marry Anne Boleyn.

Despite the initial failure of the story, it changed the course of Clarke's career.

Despite her optimism, the resulting Colloquy of Poissy ended in failure on 13 October 1561, dissolving itself without her permission.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

Despite the failure of Curse, Edwards attempted to revive the series a decade later with Son of the Pink Panther, in which it is revealed that Clouseau had illegitimate children by Maria Gambrelli ( a character who first appeared in A Shot in the Dark ).

Despite initial French attempts at settling the region having ended in failure, French fishing fleets began to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St. Lawrence River, trading and making alliances with First Nations.

Despite its failure, the French continued to encourage Diệm's enemies in an attempt to destabilize him.

Despite his pioneering work with gas Murdoch never made any money from this invention due to his failure to obtain a patent.

Despite the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin ' restaurants in the early 1970s, Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South ( 59th Street ) in 1988.

Despite being a phenomenally successful playwright during his lifetime, his propensity for high living ( he had a table permanently reserved for him at Maxim's ), gambling, and the failure of his marriage led to financial difficulties.

Despite Chiang Kai-shek's support and protection, Tang was blamed for the failure to defend Nanking which resulted in the consequent Nanking Massacre.

Despite his failure to finish Realschule ( a form of German secondary school ), Ossietzky succeeded in embarking on a career in journalism, with the topics of his articles ranging from theatre criticism to feminism and the problems of early motorization.

Despite signing up some promising talent ( notably Arthur Hodgson and the Kneecaps and the ' French Beach Boys ,' Les Garçons de la Plage ), poor financial management ( mainly on the part of Stig O ' Hara's financial planner, Ron Decline ) finally led to the label's ultimate failure.

Despite fresh Spanish successes in the mid-1630s — in particular, the triumph of Philip's government in raising a fresh Spanish army, marching it into Germany to defeat the Swedish-lead Protestant forces at the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634 — the increased tensions with France made war between the two Catholic states increasingly inevitable.

Despite this action against Joan of Arc, Philip's alliance with England was broken in 1435 when Philip signed the Treaty of Arras ( which completely revoked the Treaty of Troyes ) and thus recognised Charles VII as king of France.

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 this impairment to his bowling shoulder, his team played with an aggressive strategy leading them to lose only one Test match and no other matches during the tour, honouring his pre-series pledge.

Despite having warned of the difficulty of provisioning Britain for a long war, he was blamed for the shortage of shells in the spring of 1915 – one of the events leading to the formation of a coalition government – and stripped of his control over munitions and strategy.

Despite their differences in strategy, anarcho-punks often co-operate with each other.

Despite privately calling Cleveland a " coarse-grained man " and a " bully ", Chamberlain gradually favoured Salisbury's pragmatic strategy.

Despite this, other reviewers complained about the " brain-dead easy " puzzles and bosses requiring " basic strategy at best ".

Despite many new approaches, it is still a robust strategy and often the best method.

Despite strong evidence for the effectiveness of the jigsaw classroom, the strategy was not widely used ( arguably because of strong attitudes existing outside of the schools, which still resisted the notion that racial and ethnic minority groups are equal to Whites and, similarly, should be integrated into schools ).

Despite the fact that the tit-for-tat agents never won a match and the defectors never lost a match, the tit-for-tat strategy still came out ahead, because the final score is not determined by the number of match wins, but the total points score.

Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that " the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed ; it was a moral imperative.

Despite this specific restriction, there are numerous examples of women taking informed actions in legal matters in the Late Republic and Principate, including dictating legal strategy to their advocate behind the scenes.

Despite this strategy, in certain places, particularly on the west coast of North America ; and at certain times, due to ionospheric conditions, the listener can actually hear both WWV and WWVH on the same frequency at the same time.

Despite the name of the game, a common strategy is to play honestly.

Despite concern for maintaining the status quo, the Cold War security strategy emphasized the ideological difference between China and the US.

Despite advice to the contrary, Potemkin pursued an equally defensive strategy, though in the Caucasus Generals Tekeeli and Pavel Potemkin were making some inroads.

Despite this however, Ryton's importance in PSA's overall strategy was always marginal at best — merely being an assembly operation with limited production capacity compared to PSA's main factories in France and Spain.

Despite controlling the play and having the majority of the chances, the Italians were undone by poor finishing, and a strong, tough opposition who sought to stop their more skillful opponents playing through hard tackles and a defensive strategy.

Despite the advent of free agency in 1976, which led many to predict the demise of the farm system, it still remains a strong component of a winning baseball strategy.

Despite their similarities, the two sports also have many differences in play and in strategy.

Despite strong critical reviews, however, an expected mainstream breakthrough did not materialize, as the band's manager pursued an unsuccessful strategy of keeping them off the road at first, in the hopes of allowing market demand for their live show to build up so that he could book the band into larger venues than they had previously played.

Despite both teams running the same fuel strategy, Benetton's stop was much faster than Williams ' stop, and Schumacher left the pitlane in the lead.

Despite this, Management finally had to admit that which was so clear to others ; their strategy was flawed and destructive and the receivers were called in.

Despite the relatively small number of cards used in each game, card interactions and strategy can become surprisingly intricate, especially in the later rounds.

Despite the initiative of starting a new trade union international in direct competition with the previously existing Amsterdam international, the Profintern in its initial phase continued to insist that its strategy was not to " snatch out of the unions the best and most conscious workers ," but rather to remain in the existing unions in order to " revolutionize " them.