Despite being a castle it remains a homely space where the human scale is room size, but with incongruous architectural elements.

Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his A Shropshire Lad, about his deeper sympathies.

Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.

Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.

Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.

Despite this, the strong claims made by the doctrine of human rights continue to provoke considerable skepticism and debates about the content, nature and justifications of human rights to this day.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite all this progress the nature of intermetallic compounds and alloys largely remained a mystery and their study was often empirical.

Despite the anecdotal nature of the sport's origin, the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite its minimalistic nature, it has become the parental formal language of an implemented and ( for entertainment ) used programming language called Brainfuck.

Despite the polished and complex nature of the Aeneid ( legend stating that Virgil wrote only three lines of the poem each day ), the number of half-complete lines and the abrupt ending are generally seen as evidence that Virgil died before he could finish the work.

Despite significant academic interest, there is no consensus on its precise nature and consequently a final ' correct ' resolution has not yet been established.

Despite this relatively pedestrian assessment of the material world, Plotinus asserted the ultimately divine nature of material creation since it ultimately derives from the One, through the mediums of nous and the world soul.

Despite historians ' best efforts to find in it some permanence of character, the exact nature of the witenagemot remains " essentially vague, fluctuating, and incoherent.

Despite the dubious nature of the document, wheels were set in motion for its publication ; members of the Conservative Party combining with Foreign Office officials in what Chester, Fay, and Young characterised as a " conspiracy.

Despite this unique nature, public capital investment, used in the production process of nearly every sector, is not sufficient on its own to generate sustained economic growth.

Despite its contrary nature, scalability also may be found in lossless codecs, usually in form of coarse-to-fine pixel scans.

Despite being mechanical in nature, Data is treated as an equal member of the Enterprise crew.

" Despite its atypical nature, " Contendings " includes many of the oldest episodes in the divine conflict, and many events appear in the same order as in much later accounts, suggesting that a traditional sequence of events was forming at the time that the story was written.

Despite its unpopular nature, the Embargo Act did have some limited, unintended benefits, especially as it drove capital and labor into New England textile and other manufacturing industries, lessening America's reliance on the British.

Despite its unpopular nature, the Embargo Act did have some limited, unintended benefits, especially as entrepreneurs and workers responded by bringing in fresh capital and labor into New England textile and other manufacturing industries, lessening America's reliance on the British merchants.

Despite the traditional nature of the system, harmony and cohesion had been established among Rwandans and within the kingdom since the beginning of Rwanda.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Despite the technological limitations of the TV medium at the time, more and more people chose to stay home to watch the television.

Despite the loss, Cleveland players took home a number of awards.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Despite its arid climate, the island is also home to a surprisingly large insect fauna.

Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.

Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

Despite affordable and often free land, many arriving newcomers, mostly from Britain and Ireland, found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult, and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south.

Despite the team's 2-14 record, they sold out six of their eight home games in 2006.

Despite these doubts, items that were stolen from Moore were later found in Nichols ' home and in a storage shed that he had rented.

Despite several upgrades between December 1923 and July 1924, the nearby Hotel Esplanade's formidable bulk prevented the transmitter from functioning effectively and so in December 1924 it was superseded by a better sited new one, but Vox-Haus lived on as the home of Germany's first radio station, Radiostunde Berlin, founded in 1923, renamed Funkstunde in March 1924, but it moved to a new home in 1931 and closed in 1934.

Despite hitting 36 home runs with 119 RBIs, Sosa batted just. 251.

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 the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgement after a home run.

Despite this broad interpretation, the courts seem willing to find areas to be outside of the curtilage if they are in any way separate from the home ( by a fence, great distance, other structures, even certain plants ).

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 this he has several times attempted to quit, staying at home with his family as he realizes his constant absence has nearly destroyed his wife.

Despite repeated citations for recusancy and swingeing fines, he died a rich man, having rooms at the time of his death at the London home of the Earl of Worcester.

Despite home rule under democratic principles Lycia was not a sovereign state and had not been since its defeat by the Carians.

Despite this reduction in habitat, Oakland is home to a number of rare and endangered species, many of which are localized to serpentine soils and bedrock.

Despite the strict disarmament conditions in the Treaty of Versailles, Fokker did not return home empty-handed.

Despite Plaid Cymru's ambivalence toward home rule ( as opposed to outright independence ) the referendum result led many in the party to question its direction.