Despite his own desperate struggle, the Imperial Prince at once complied, demonstrating the high degree of confidence and mutual co-operation between the two generals.

Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

Despite the honey bee's painful sting and the stereotype of insects as pests, bees are generally held in high regard.

Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.

Despite his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.

Despite high ticket prices, the exhibition lost money, with only one recorded sale.

Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist.

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite these disadvantages, a high operating temperature provides an advantage by removing the need for a precious metal catalyst like platinum, thereby reducing cost.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

Despite high expectations, 1975 was among the Astros ' worst in franchise history.

Despite a slowing global economy, Indonesia ’ s economic growth accelerated to a ten-year high of 6. 3 % in 2007.

Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.

Despite Japan's high standing in the League, the subsequent Lytton Report declared Japan to be the aggressor and demanded Manchuria be returned to the Chinese.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

Despite the estimations held by Hitler and others in the German high command, the Soviet Union was by no means weak.

Despite the high content of chemicals that are noxious to herbivores, some have evolved the ability to withstand the chemical defences of pepper plants, for example the sematurine moth Homidiana subpicta or some flea beetles of the genus Lanka.

Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, South Korea suffers perpetual damage to its credit rating in the stock market due to the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on the financial markets of the South Korean economy.

Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly, about 1. 2 % per year.

Despite the high population of gays and lesbians who called Greenwich Village home, very few places existed, other than bars, where they were able to congregate openly without being harassed or arrested.

Despite its high price and rarity, thulium is used as the radiation source in portable X-ray devices and in solid-state lasers.

Despite its high cost, portable X-ray devices use thulium that has been bombarded in a nuclear reactor as a radiation source.

Despite high speed play and rapid exchanges, a player can see clearly what side of the racket was used to hit the ball.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

Despite this, there has been unofficial interactions in the economic level between the two countries.

Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.

Despite the championship, the team did not draw enough fans to stay solvent at the major league level, as Detroit was at the time one of the smallest cities in the National League and its rapid industry-fueled growth was still several years in the future.

Despite this, the cumulative effect of additional species in an ecosystem is not linear — additional species may enhance nitrogen retention, for example, but beyond some level of species richness, additional species may have little additive effect.

Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of American and European influence.

Despite the above, the noun form in English (" attendant ") is someone who waits on another, generally with menial tasks and in a temporary fashion, as on an airplane or hotel ; whereas ' assistant ' implies a longer-term, higher level, and often contractual (= employment ), relationship.

Despite these efforts the army is still not in a position to provide forces with the appropriate " level of training and discipline " without significant risk, according to Janes.

Despite this, the Eastern Roman / Byzantine armies continued to be influenced by the earlier Roman legions, and were maintained with similar level of discipline, strategic prowess, and organization.

Despite this low level of use, scandium offers significant benefits.

Despite substantial uncertainties, especially for the period prior to 1600 when data are scarce, the warmest period of the last 2, 000 years prior to the 20th century very likely occurred between 950 and 1100, but temperatures were probably between 0. 1 ° C and 0. 2 ° C below the 1961 to 1990 mean and significantly below the level shown by instrumental data after 1980.

Despite such harsh conditions, this anoxic and sulphidic environment is teeming with microbial life, both chemosynthetic prokaryotes that are primary producers, and a broad diversity of eukaryotic heterotrophs at the next trophic level.

Despite the army's access to the armaments factories of Lille, the Army of the North suffered from severe supply difficulties which kept the soldiers ' already poor morale at a permanently low level.

Despite that, the wooden dummy training is still useful long before the student can actually apply its principles, as it helps focus and clean up the lower level techniques.

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 the predominance of state courts in terms of cases handled, most academic scholarship concerning courts takes place at the federal level, because it has greater relevance in a national market for academic scholarship, because federal courts generally have more accessible records, and because many important kinds of litigation are handled primarily at the federal level.

Despite global warming and a consequently greater predicted rate of sea level rise recent analysis extended the working life of the barrier until around 2060 – 2070.

Despite this link, and the historical ties, there is no University of Paris system that binds the universities at an academic level.

” Despite the settlers ’ intentions, towns failed to develop for two reasons: the generally low level of economic activity in the area and the competition from plantation settlements already providing the kind of marketing and purchasing services typically offered by a town.

Despite being long, it rises only 76 m ( 256 feet ) above sea level, so the river is easily navigable, with only a few locks along its length.

Despite popular prejudices to the contrary, the U. S. economy consistently affords a lower level of economic mobility than all the continental European countries for which data is available.

Despite recent Republican dominance at the local office level, Clermont has seen heavy union and non-partisan influence in its politics.

Despite the framers ' intentions in the beginning of the republic, ballot measures and their corresponding referendums have been widely used at the state and sub-state level.