Despite its many ( serious ) limitations, including extremely low volume, it has considerable expressive power, the player being able to control attack, duration, volume, and even provide certain subtle effects of swelling of tone and a type of vibrato unique to the clavichord.

Despite the apparent risk, the statistical incidence of injury in supervised training and competition is extremely low.

Despite the size of the instrument, it is not as loud as many other instruments due to its low range.

Despite low population density, taxpayers spend annually around 350 million euro in maintaining railway tracks even to many rural towns.

Despite some efforts, no suitable substitutes with the stability and low cost of gelatin have been found.

Despite these tax increases, compared to developed countries, Honduras has low tax rates with particularly low property taxes.

Despite their low diversity, hyenas are unique and vital components to most African and some Asian ecosystems.

Despite the low interaction between discrete hubs, the disease can jump to and spread in a susceptible hub via a single or few interactions with an infected hub.

Despite the intent of the original allocation, in recent years the fastest-growing uses of these bands have been for short-range, low power communications systems.

Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, He Said, She Said was illuminating for Bacon.

Despite their ability to survive low temperatures, kumquat trees grow better and produce larger and sweeter fruits in warmer regions.

" Despite the relatively low altitude of the Biqa Valley ( the highest point of which, near Baalbek, is only ) more snow falls there than at comparable altitudes west of the Lebanon Mountains.

Despite these pressures, consumer price inflation has remained low ( 2. 2 % according to the Central Bank of Malta 2nd Quarterly Report in 2007 ), reflecting the impact of a fixed exchange rate policy ( 100 % hard peg to the euro, in preparation for currency changeover ) and lingering price controls.

Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Despite gaining initially low audience ratings, by the third series, One Foot in the Grave was making the Top 20 ratings, with some episodes seen by more than 16 million viewers.

Despite Taylor's suggestion that this method could be used in low visibility, the Navy did not immediately continue the work.

Despite unfavourable growing conditions ( atmospheric pollution from London, dry soils and low rainfall ) Kew remains one of the most comprehensive plant collections in Britain.

Despite the immense economic growth, however, the standard of living for city laborers and farmers was still low.

Despite this low level of use, scandium offers significant benefits.

Despite their relatively low elevations, seldom surpassing 1, 300 m, the mountains of the Sierra Morena are rugged.

Despite having been their genre's first and second writers, their prosaic style and formulaic stories, produced voluminously from 1900 to 1914, proved of low literary merit.

Despite their common efforts, bilateral trade has been comparatively low, valued at US $ 12. 09 million in 2005 ; India's exports to Tajikistan were valued at US $ 6. 2 million and its imports at US $ 5. 89 million.

Despite an increase of 14 years in the last decade, life expectancy at birth in Yemen has remained low compared with other developing countries — 60. 6 years for males and 64. 5 years for females, or 62. 5 years overall.

Despite low record sales, Jennings attracted large audiences in live appearances.

Despite his long association with and close proximity to the Buddha, Ananda was only a stream-winner prior to the Buddha ’ s death.

Despite Phillip's earlier order that Aboriginal Australians must never be slain, and his insistence that no retaliation be taken to avenge his own non-fatal spearing, Phillip's stance toward Aboriginals changed markedly after the death of his gamekeeper, John MacIntyre.

Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

Despite David's reputation, he was more fiercely criticized right after his death than at any point during his life.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

Despite anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multiparty National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September – October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite further anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multi-party National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September-October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite the discomfort of jumping from the boat into swamps, rivers and marshes the film apparently rekindled in Bogart his early love of boats and on his return to California from the Congo he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout which he kept until his death.

Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France ( 1942 – 44 ), Hungary ( 1944 – 45 ), Slovakia, Italy ( after 1943 ), and the Balkans.

Despite such voyages ceasing with his death in 1817, his private initiative served to arouse public interest.

Despite deteriorating health, he continued what he called his " Universal Work ," which included fasting and seclusion, until his death on 31 January 1969.

Despite these hindrances, his aim ( and that of his collaborator John Dryden ) was to establish serious opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36.

Despite the damage which the affair was inflicting on the church, it was not until after Julius ' death in 1555 that anything could be done to curb Innocenzo's visibility.

Despite such power, the political commissars whose Chekist detachments retreated or broke in the face of the enemy earned the death penalty.

Despite this apparent success the underlying problems remained unresolved and had already resulted in the death or serious injury of 30, 000 civilians.

Despite Germain's intellectual achievements, her death certificate lists her as a “ rentière – annuitant ” ( property holder ), not a “ mathematicienne.

Despite Orbison's death, the remaining group members recorded a second and final studio album, which they intentionally misnumbered Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Despite the higher Arab death toll and the fact that the battle was decided in Israel's favor, Fatah considered themselves victorious because of the Israeli army's withdrawal.

Despite the king's death, the Swedish commanders manage to rally the army and eventually defeat Wallenstein's army.

Despite Louis's death in 1483, shortly after Margaret arrived in France, she remained at the French court.

Despite his alleged responsibility for the death of Edward's brother Alfred, Godwin secured the marriage of his daughter Edith ( Eadgyth ) to Edward in 1045.

Despite the Emir's death, the Muslim troops did not flee the battlefield.

Despite this, Hungarian ambitions remained unchanged long after Kulin's death in 1204, waning only after an unsuccessful invasion in 1254.

Despite her condition, the debate as to her fate was the central question of the National Convention after Louis's death.