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 some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala's historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university.

Despite the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina, the historic home of Fernando Upton Gautier remains intact and open for business.

Despite its unofficial and historic status the Scottish Union Flag continues to be produced by flag manufacturers, and its unofficial use by private citizens on land has been observed.

Despite human impact on the area, Denali accommodates gray wolf dens, both historic and active.

Despite Ordway Hall's architectural and historic significance to the Murray State campus, the school plans to demolish Ordway Hall between 2012 and 2014 rather than upgrade the building to meet current fire protection and ADA requirements.

Despite the city's historic importance in the development of American music, there are those who feel that its status has declined in recent years, due to a combination of increased corporate control over music media, an increase in the cost-of-living and the rise of local music scenes whose success is facilitated by the cheap communication provided by the Internet.

Despite the fact that the majority of East Germans opposed the demolition and various protests by people who felt the building was an integral part of Berlin's culture and the historic process of the German reunification, in November 2003, the German parliament decided to demolish the building and leave the area as parkland until funding for the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace could be found.

Despite historic evidence of Islamization spreading throughout the islands in the 13th-16th centuries, the archipelago came under Spanish rule in the 16th century.

Despite not asking the return of territory, the Chinese did ask the USSR to formally ( publicly ) acknowledge that said border, established with the Treaty of Aigun ( 1858 ) and the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was a historic Russian injustice against China ; the Soviet government ignored the matter.

Despite a currently robust population, a recent study by the National Audubon Society of data from the Christmas Bird Count indicated that populations had declined by 61 % to a population of 73 million from historic highs of over 190 million birds.

Despite significant war damages, many interesting architectural historic sites have been preserved in Żary, including its medieval municipal urban arrangement.

Despite this protection its last owner demolished the historic house in 1954.

Despite Lafosse's assertions, few of these " historic " events, if any, can be verified through independent sources.

Despite the Mongol's territorial gains, in September 1260, the Egyptian Mamluks rallied, defeating the Mongols at the historic battle of Ain Jalut and driving them back across the Euphrates River.

Despite additions and modifications in both landscape and buildings in Garfield Park, essential character-defining features such as historic roads and paths, buildings, structures, landforms, water features, and some plant materials still exist.

Despite some protests, the historic stadium had been earmarked for demolition when the University of Miami announced that they were moving out of the Orange Bowl after the 2007 season to begin play at Sun Life Stadium in 2008 in a 25-year deal.

Despite its recent growth, Dronfield's centre has managed to keep its ancient character with a number of historic buildings still intact.

Despite these problems, there is optimism about the future of co-op education ; " Social, economic, and historic forces are making cooperative education more relevant than ever ", including emphasis on university-industry-government cooperation, a fluid and demanding workplace, new technology, the need for continuous on-the-job learning, globalization, and demands for accountability.

Despite recent misfortune, the club is the most successful of the three professional league clubs in historic Lincolnshire, being the only one to play top-flight football.

Despite Gary McAllister scoring a penalty following a David Beharall hand ball to put the Reds 1 – 0 up, loan signing Marlon Broomes equalised before ex-Everton youth player Phil Jevons hit a 35 yard strike into the top corner of Chris Kirkland's goal to give the club a historic victory.

Despite this move being unsuccessful, McMahon was also able to air the historic " War to Settle the Score " and " Brawl to End it All " wrestling cards on MTV ; in addition, McMahon also still had the most recognized wrestler in the industry, Hulk Hogan.

Despite the residential setting of its campus, Trinity is only five minutes away from historic Downtown San Antonio, the seventh-largest city in the United States.

Despite Paisley's pre-1974 burgh boundary intersecting the Glasgow Road at the corner of Oldhall Road, today, the district is considered by many, including the local community council, to include the part of Paisley between Hawkhead Road and the historic Paisley-Ralston boundary.

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 their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Despite the prescribed safety of GET requests, in practice their handling by the server is not technically limited in any way.

Despite Justinian's passion for the glorious Roman past, the practice of choosing Roman consul was allowed to lapse after 541.

Despite the constitution's provisions for democracy, in practice, until 2011, Kim Jong-il exercised absolute control over the government and the country.

Despite this, the majority of the population still live in traditional societies and practice subsistence-based agriculture.

Despite his commitment to absolutism, Bodin held some moderate opinions on how government should in practice be carried out.

Despite this, the identification of the tarot cards with the Egyptian Book of Thoth was already firmly established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.

" Despite its intent, though, in practice, the system operated much the same as earlier incarnations.

Despite the allure of a newly lucrative law practice, there was little hesitancy on Garfield's part in deciding to stand for re-election in 1866, due primarily to the urgency presented by Reconstruction.

Despite his disgust, he feels unjustified in holding the natives morally responsible for a practice so deeply ingrained in their culture.

Despite his lack of judicial experience, his years in the Alameda County district attorney's office and as state attorney general gave him far more knowledge of the law in practice than most other members of the Court had.

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 fact that the far-reaching independence assumptions are often inaccurate, the naive Bayes classifier has several properties that make it surprisingly useful in practice.

His arguments against the doctrine of revolutionary unions known as anarcho-syndicalism were later developed in a series of articles, where he wrote “ I am against syndicalism, both as a doctrine and a practice, because it strikes me as a hybrid creature .” Despite their drawbacks, he advocated activity in the trade unions, both because they were necessary for the organization and self-defense of workers under a capitalist state regime, and as a way of reaching broader masses.

Despite their name, however, practice sets are used not only by beginning players but also by some advanced players when they wish to play just the chanter with other musicians, either live or in recording sessions.

Despite pressure from local authorities and navigation companies, the upper river was closed for trade, and a Royal Commission reported in 1909 on the poor state of the lower river, the lack of any consistent authority to manage it, and the unusual practice of towing horses having to jump over fences because there were no gates where they crossed the towing path.

Despite persistent efforts, most learners of a second language will never become fully native-like in it, although with practice considerable fluency can be achieved.

Despite calls for reform, the nearly universal practice of fractional-reserve banking has remained in the United States.

Despite being prohibited, it is still a common military practice.

Despite their success, the group was regularly dismissed by critics for their attempts to promote themselves as an urban act and their practice of using backing vocals for live performances.

Despite common practice for owners to allow naming buildings after its important tenants – the building accommodates some very prestigious tenants – the owners decided not to allow renaming of the building.

Despite the theoretical argument in favor of decentralization, indirect rule in practice caused chiefs to look to Accra ( the capital ) rather than to their people for all decisions.

Despite being a neighbour of Russia, it is in practice possible to study Russian only in some schools ( due to low interest or it not being offered ); only 1. 5 % of the Finns have a good knowledge of Russian.

Despite development of various practice guidelines for prevention of VTE, they remain underused in most countries.