Despite ( or because of ) the recession, the total number of franchised units increased by 5. 3 % from 2009 to 2010.

Despite the crises of the preceding electoral period, in the 2002 federal election, the Greens increased their total to 55 seats ( in a smaller parliament ) and 8. 6 %.

Despite wide-ranging poverty, Haiti increased its mobile phone coverage rate from 6 % to 30 % in one year ( May 2006 to May 2007 ).

Despite declarations by the Callejas government in 1989 of its intent to increasingly address social issues, including land tenure and other needs of small farmers, the early 1990s were jolted by increased conflicts between peasants and the Honduran security forces.

Despite the shortage of raw-materials Generalluftzeugmesiter Ernst Udet, had increased production through introducing a 10 hour working day for aviation industries and rationalizing of production.

Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.

" Despite fears that too much propaganda could diminish Hollywood ’ s entertainment appeal, reducing its targeted audience and decreasing profits, military enlistment increased and morale was considered to be higher, in part attributed to America's innovative propaganda.

Despite the deep-seated norm against legal proceedings, litigation in the Chinese courts has increased dramatically, especially in recent years.

Despite a modest increase in specific impulse, implementation is limited due to the increased hazards of the high-explosive additives.

Despite the increased ability to offer breast-conservation techniques to patients with breast cancer, there exist certain groups who may be better served by traditional mastectomy procedures including:

Despite the opening of new universities and increased enrollment, the state-directed education system did not adequately prepare for increasing market demand in the areas of agriculture, light industry, services, and foreign investment.

Despite the increased cost in hardware, this type of embedded system is increasing in popularity, especially on the more powerful embedded devices such as Wireless Routers and GPS Navigation Systems.

Despite the increased cost, the more modern variation ( which can be considered as " heavier " than old streetcar systems, even though it is called " light rail ") is the dominant form of urban rail development in the United States.

Despite the increased light from this device, Bacon and French felt the statue required even more light.

Despite the politicized dramatization of the Plains aborigines, their " rediscovery " as a matter of public discourse has had a lasting effect on the increased socio-political reconceptualization of Taiwan — emerging from the a Han Chinese dominant perspective into a wider acceptance of Taiwan as a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic community.

Despite this, industrial environment increased quicky, in fact the city is called " the italian Manchester ".

Despite the significantly increased costs involved in running the new four-stroke machinery, given their extra 490cc capacity advantage, the four-strokes were soon able to dominate their two-stroke rivals.

Despite the increased fear of a dirty bombing attack, it is hard to assess whether the actual risk of such an event has increased significantly.

Despite Barringer's findings and other excavations in the early 20th century, geologists ' skepticism continued until the 1950s when planetary science gained in maturity and understanding of cratering processes increased.

Despite the increased threat, the rebels were loyal to Kett throughout and continued to fight Warwick's men.

Despite the ban on military use, hollow-point bullets are one of the most common types of civilian and police ammunition, due largely to the reduced risk of bystanders being hit by over-penetrating or ricocheted bullets, and the increased speed of incapacitation.

Despite the Great Depression, the county's population increased to 106, 059 in 1940.

Despite its former prosperity, in the 1950s and 1960s Newburyport's center fell into disrepair because of several factors, most notably strip malls taking away from local business and increased use of the automobile.

Despite these calamities, the population increased from 307 in 1910 to 2, 099 in 1920.

Despite their simple construction, the tentacles of hydras are extraordinarily extensible and can be four to five times the length of the body.

Despite its modest length ( 74 km ), it is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge ( after the Volga and the Danube ).

Despite numerous requests by Abdullah bin Jassim — for strong military support, for weapons, and even for a loan — the British were reluctant to become involved in inland affairs and kept him at arm's length.

Despite its name and length, the Rio Grande is not navigable by ocean-going ships, nor do smaller passenger boats or cargo barges use it as a route.

Despite Asser's comment that the dyke ran " from sea to sea ", it is now thought that the original structure only covered about two-thirds of the length of the border: in the north it ends near Llanfynydd, less than five miles ( 8 km ) from the coast, while in the south it stops at Rushock Hill, near Kington in Herefordshire, less than fifty miles ( 80 km ) from the Bristol Channel.

Despite its length of just 2. 5 km, the dike took four years to build, from 1920 to 1924.

Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $ 350, 000 to make.

Despite a majority of Route 128's length running concurrent with either I-93 or I-95, many area residents refer to the entire length of the highway as Route 128.

Despite these problems, however, the novella's length provides unique advantages ; in the introduction to a novella anthology titled Sailing to Byzantium, Robert Silverberg writes:

Despite the song's seven minute, twenty-one second length, Webb released " MacArthur Park " as a single, and it quickly reached Number 2 on the singles chart.

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 the short length, it is an important arterary that connects not only traffic between the Turnpike and Route 130, but traffic to County Route 535.

Despite the river's length and relatively large drainage area ( 308 square miles ; 798 km² ), its source is only 26 miles ( 42 km ) from its mouth, and the river drops only 350 feet ( 107 m ) from source to sea.

Despite the shortcomings of length, weight, bearing friction, and torsional vibrations that led to the straight-8's post-war demise, the straight-8 was the performance engine design of choice from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, and continued to excel in motorsport until the mid-1950s.

Despite being drawn on the outside, Woolf led by over a length after just 20 seconds and soon crossed over to the rail position.

Despite the existence of a fossil record, full classification and phylogeny of the sturgeon species has been difficult to determine, in part due to the high individual and ontogenic variation, including geographical clines in certain features, such as rostrum shape, number of scutes and body length.

Despite their weight and technical superiority, Cambridge won by only a length and a quarter in a time of 17 minutes and 49 seconds.

Despite their soft-bodied nature and lack of mineralised hard parts, fossil tadpoles ( around 10 cm in length ) have been recovered from Upper Miocene strata.

Despite their name, microphylls are not always small ; those of Isoëtes can reach 20 – 100 centimetres in length, and the extinct Lepidodendron bore microphylls over a metre long.

Despite its length, clocking in at nearly forty minutes and stretched over six parts, the track made the UK top 30, and previewed what was to come.

Despite the sword's length and weight, Kojirō's strikes with the weapon were unusually quick and precise.

Despite use of a small typeface, the length of feature articles shrank accordingly.

Despite its much reduced length it can still be well seen as a major landmark along the beach as far as Gibraltar Point to the south and Ingoldmells to the north.

Despite its length ( 171 minutes ) and unlikely commercial genre, it received high critical and popular acclaim.