Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.

Despite recent improvements, with an exploding population Ethiopia remains one of the poorest nations in the world.

Despite improvements in the laws in recent years, Indonesia's intellectual property rights regime remains weak ; lack of effective enforcement is a major concern.

Despite improvements on the economy the Republic of Moldova remains Europe's poorest nation.

Despite these safety improvements, RBMK reactors are still considered one of the most dangerous reactor designs in use.

Despite these improvements, however, the NHS retained a reputation of being a low-wage employer by the end of the First Wilson Government ’ s time in office.

Despite improvements, the road was still considered a challenging drive ; the Victorian Police motor school even using it for training around 1966.

Despite these and a number of other recent improvements the ground remains one of the poorest in League Two and talks are still ongoing with a view to a permanent move to a new stadium located in Church, a small town bordering Accrington.

Despite this, the route has seen improvements, such as to the interchanges with Route 17 in 1999 and with Route 208 in 2002.

Despite improvements to the land, including construction of his home, title in the land remained in doubt due to the purchase via a foreclosure sale.

Despite these small improvements, HTML, which is the predominant language for the web still remains a predominantly source distributed, interpreted markup language, with high redundancy.

Despite many improvements, the Plus also had its drawbacks.

Despite the lack of capital, the new company somehow managed to finance improvements to Sheffield Basin, including a four-storey warehouse which straddled part of the basin.

Despite providing an enormous gain in worker productivity, the Chinese spinning wheel fell into disuse over the subsequent centuries and was completely unknown by the 17th century, whereas the mechanical automation of spinning in Europe in the 18th century ( from manual spinning wheel precursors of the 13th century ultimately sourced from Asia Minor ) led directly to a process of technical refinement and engineering improvements that resulted in the Industrial Revolution and widespread mechanization of production of goods beyond yarn.

Despite the improvements, however, Wilander was defeated by Lendl in the final of both the French Open and the US Open in 1987.

Despite this imbalance in the Rhodesian electoral system, Smith and other white politicians argued there was nothing fundamentally racist about it: They stated that improvements in black education and wealth would, over time, ensure a gradual move to majority rule.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite the TF Cortina introducing worthwhile improvements in ride, handling, noise reduction and fuel consumption, the Cortina generally was seen by the motoring press as outdated, and buyers generally preferred the rival products — in marked contrast to New Zealand where the Cortina was a highly regarded success.

Despite the improvements, the island airport did not become a passenger airline hub, and its existence came into question, starting in the 1960s.

Despite this criticism, Kriesky did much to transform Austria during his time in office, with considerable improvements in working conditions, a dramatic rise in the average standard of living, and a significant expansion of the welfare state, and arguably remains the most successful socialist Chancellor of Austria to this day.

Despite 10 years of research and improvements, the machine became obsolete when Ampex introduced the Ampex VRX-1000.

Despite briefly affected operations, preventing replacement parts from being shipped until at least the end of August of that year., the new facility enabled improvements in service efficiency.

Despite the improvements, about 40 % of all the medical equipment was obsolete, facilities were outdated and in short supply, the bureaucracy was excessive, and small bribery was widespread.

Despite the landmark inventions of engineers such as James Watt, most of these developments are better characterised as part of a continuous flow of small scale technological improvements.

Despite repeated requests by U. S. businesses and the federal government, the company would not invest in improvements to increase traffic volume or speed.

Despite the solid offensive performance, the bullpen struggled with 23 blown saves ( a Major League worst ), and the Indians finished a disappointing fourth.

Despite the Rockies record-setting performance, the National League coaches and players didn't vote in any of Colorado's players for the NL Gold Glove award.

Despite the ubiquity of computer music in contemporary culture, there is considerable activity in the field of computer music, as researchers continue to pursue new and interesting computer-based synthesis, composition, and performance approaches.

Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single " Sound and Vision ", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two.

Despite losing this match, Essendon's performance was good enough for its players to be awarded Brownlow Medal votes – best-on-ground was Brent Stanton ( 3 votes ), followed by Jason Johnson ( 2 votes ) and Andrew Lovett ( 1 vote ).

Despite Lineker's personal performance, Tottenham finished this final pre-Premier League season in 15th place.

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

Despite its excellent performance, the garrison's food supply had been requisitioned for earlier offensives, a relief expedition was stalled by the weather, ethnic rivalries flared up between the defending soldiers and a breakout attempt failed.

Despite inaugural game festivities at the new ballpark, the Dodgers would spoil the 2000 season opener, with a three HR performance by little-known Kevin Elster.

Despite these limitations, several software packages have managed to provide virtualization on the x86 architecture, even though dynamic recompilation of privileged code, as first implemented by VMware, incurs some performance overhead as compared to a VM running on a natively virtualizable architecture such as the IBM System / 370 or Motorola MC68020.

Despite this performance, the shareholders declined to invest more money, and so the company was liquidated, with Count von Zeppelin purchasing the ship and equipment.

Despite the gains in computational performance during this time period according to Moore's law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the speed on a prototypical year 2007 computer as compared to Office 2000 on a year 2000 computer.

Despite his Oscar-nominated performance, Harold Russell was not a professional actor.

Despite a brief delay caused by a mechanical problem early in the first act, the performance was an unqualified success, and the play went on to become one of the year's biggest West End successes.

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 smashing victory that followed, Longstreet's performance at the battle was criticized by postbellum advocates of the Lost Cause, claiming that his slowness, reluctance to attack, and disobedience to Gen. Lee were a harbinger of his controversial performance to come on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Despite the poor financial performance, 1962 turned out to be the busiest year in Silver City's 16-year history.

Despite the challenge of its size, complexity, and advanced CMOS process, the first tape-out version of the processor was able to be shipped, and it had leadership floating point performance at the time it was announced.

Despite this, the use of vibrato in late Romantic music is still common, though challenged by Roger Norrington and others of the historically informed performance movement.

Despite his uncompromising attitude regarding performance of duty, LeMay was also known for his concern for the physical well-being and comfort of his men.

Despite its mixed origins, this aircraft had excellent performance and formed the basis for a number of future fighters.

Despite the fact that the Lightning finished first in the conference and the Islanders qualified for the playoffs as the 8th and final seed, a few journalists had picked the Islanders to win based on their strong regular season performance against Tampa Bay.

Despite a slight drop-off in performance, the Flyers dominated the Patrick Division with what proved to be their fourth straight division title.

Despite defeat, his performance was seen to mark a revival of the Socialists as a strong force in French politics and he returned to being the First Secretary of the party.