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Despite the importance of his books many questions remain regarding his life, hampering efforts to construct a biography with any certainty.
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Despite the fundamental importance and frequent necessity of statistical reasoning, there may nonetheless have been a tendency among biologists to distrust or deprecate results which are not qualitatively apparent.
Despite their ultimate importance, the German navy declined to take up the cause of another experiment, the submarine, until 1904.
Despite the importance of public libraries, they are routinely having their budgets cut by state legislature.
Despite being omitted or just mentioned briefly in most history books, the 1, 400 year-long Buddhist period has a foundational importance in the history of the Maldives.
Despite its recognised importance, by the second half of the 19th century nearly all of its clauses had been repealed in their original form.
Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.
Despite the importance of the office of prime minister, the constitution does not mention the office by name.
Despite its antiquity and importance, the Spanish Galgo has only recently been acknowledged by the cynological associations.
Despite the importance of the House of Gruyères its beginnings remain quite mysterious.
Despite his notoriety, and considering the importance of his reign, Commodus ' years in power are not well chronicled.
Despite the split, Naples grew in importance, attracting Pisan and Genoese merchants, Tuscan bankers, and with them some of the most championed Renaissance artists of the time, such as Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto.
Despite his importance for the period, Dexippus has been declared a " poor " source by the modern historian David S. Potter.
Despite the importance of C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, and others female authors, as well as Moore's early heroine, sword and sorcery has had a strongly masculine bias.
Despite attempts to draw new investment to the city after the hurricane, Galveston never fully returned to its previous levels of national importance or prosperity.
Despite its importance as a geological site, the crater is not protected as a national monument, a status that would require federal ownership.
Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the Ilim were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca.
Despite the basic importance of the foreign language requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal ( 1983 ) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.
Despite this, with the increase in the size and importance of the reredos, most altars were built against the wall or barely separated from it.
Despite his political reforms and his passion for trying to increase the importance of Savoy in Europe, Victor Amadeus left a considerable cultural legacy in the city of his birth.
Despite painting 10, 000 works rated of ' national importance ' by the British Museum he had only £ 12 cash in his possession ( having never opened a bank account ), and owed £ 2 million to various creditors.
Despite the Borough's high population density, it contains some open spaces of Metropolitan importance including Brockwell Park and Brockwell Lido, Streatham Common, half of Clapham Common, and West Norwood Cemetery.
Despite his lack of an extensive formal education, Brock appreciated its importance.
Despite and books
" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.
Despite their name, comic books are not necessarily humorous in tone ; modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres.
Despite a chronic shortage of money, he succeeded in learning Greek by an intensive, day-and-night study of three years, continuously begging his friends to send him books and money for teachers in his letters.
Despite his lack of formal education, he wrote many books, including his autobiography, Groucho and Me ( 1959 ) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover ( 1963 ).
Despite this protectiveness, many libraries loaned books if provided with security deposits ( usually money or a book of equal value ).
Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game ( 1993 ), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written.
Despite an initial period of compliance, the principle of donating copies of books to certain libraries lapsed, partly due to the unwieldiness of the statute's provisions and partly because of a lack of cooperation by the publishers.
Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a sexist society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.
Despite this, the first three books are still considered a trilogy because they contain a story that is self-contained.
Despite his advanced age, he himself hauled most of his 32, 000 books a quarter of a mile to their new home, using his wheelbarrow.
Despite its rareness, DID is portrayed with remarkable frequency in popular culture, producing or appearing in numerous books, films and television shows.
Despite that, Frowde became vital to OUP's growth, adding new lines of books to the business, presiding over the massive publication of the Revised Version of the New Testament in 1881 and playing a key role in setting up the Press's first office outside Britain, in New York in 1896.
" Despite the artistic expressions used in these types of friendship books, the basic rules of passing the friendship book to person to person is the same.
Despite a protracted legal battle with Random House in 1996, she has since published many books: both fictional, non-fictional and autobiographical.
Despite this, and despite the lead protagonist being unnamed, all six books have been unofficially called the Harry Palmer novels, based on the protagonist's name given in the subsequent film adaptations of The IPCRESS File and its sequels.
Despite her avid consumption of books, however, Emmeline was not given the educational advantages enjoyed by her brothers.
Despite their drawbacks, Haüy promoted their use with zeal: the books presented a new and handsome system which could be readily comprehended by those with eyesight.
Despite this positive reaction from readers, for decades literary critics dismissed the style found in Uncle Tom's Cabin and other sentimental novels because these books were written by women and so prominently featured " women's sloppy emotions.
Despite the previously highlighted criticisms of his work, Orosius ’ s books were considered to be successes from virtually the day of their publication.
Despite the criticism, the book sold well, as did all of Irving's books to that date.
Despite his depressive nature, Eeyore is capable of great compassion, whereas in the books he is more apathetic.
Despite this unfortunate beginning however, over the course of several books he warms to her, and becomes at least a good, if not perfect, husband to her and their first two children, also named Horatio and Maria.
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