Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite the many avenues for the exchange of ideas between faculty and administration, complaints of a lack of communication persist.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite this controversy, many properties of diatomic astatine have been predicted.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Despite his tough talk concerning traitors, Johnson in many cases authorized early release of prisoners and commutation of sentences to facilitate Reconstruction.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.

Despite decisively defeating the Marathas, what might have been Ahmad Shah's peaceful control of his domains was disrupted by many challenges.

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

Despite reforms, weak control over privatization led many successful state enterprises to bankruptcy.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Despite many decades as a leading producer, there is little risk of depletion.

Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is.

Despite these achievements, Attlee's government failed to introduce the comprehensive education for which many socialists had hoped ( as a means of making the educational system less meritoric ).

Despite the progress in certain sectors, many social and political injustices continued.

Despite a cast led by Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner and some impressive battle scenes, the film was considered a disappointment by many.

Despite being one of Mather's most well-known works, many have openly criticized it, labeling it as hard to follow and understand, and poorly paced and organized.

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.

The armistice was celebrated in Pyongyang with a military parade in which Kim declared " Despite their best efforts, the imperialist invaders were defeated with great loss in men and material.

Despite his celebrated flaws, history records Fox as an amiable figure.

Despite Amadis ' celebrated fidelity, his childhood sweetheart, Oriana, heiress to the throne of Great Britain, becomes jealous of a rival princess and sends a letter to chastize Amadís.

Despite his position as the most celebrated Australian writer of the time, Lawson was deeply depressed and perpetually poor.

Despite this founding date, teaching did not actually start for another ten years, and the University of Aberdeen celebrated 500 years of teaching and learning in 2005.

Despite his parents ’ Jewish heritage, his family “ celebrated some Christian holidays, in keeping with other German families at the time .” He joined the Lutheran Protestant Church at age 17 and was christened at age 18.

Despite its polemical success, Butterfield's celebrated book itself has been criticised by David Cannadine as slight, confused, repetitive and superficial.

Despite this, the village is celebrated in verse:

Despite still producing some of the most original works in Spanish of the twentieth century — the existential-surrealist novel El hombre perdido Lost Man ( 1947 ) and his extraordinary neo-baroque autobiography Automoribundia ( Automoribund ) — his life in exile was one of pathetic isolation and increasing poverty, neither of which were helped by the knowledge that he had left behind ( and in 1947 donated to the Spanish State ) the celebrated painting of the Pombo Tertulia by Gutiérrez-Solana ( now given pride of place in Madrid ’ s Reina Sofia Museum ) and the equally famous cubist portrait of him painted in 1915 by Diego Rivera ( which was lost without trace during the civil war but has apparently resurfaced to become the ‘ property ’ of a Mexican millionaire ).

Despite only playing two seasons at Real Madrid, Laudrup was voted the 12th best player in Real history in an internet survey by Spanish newspaper Marca when the club celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2002.

Despite Catargiu's relative unpopularity, his memory was celebrated by the Romanians.

Despite celebrated scientific achievements resulting from research at the Institute, permanent positions have been reduced in recent years.

Despite the depiction of Benzaiten, the patron deity of music revered by biwa hoshi and moso, as a female entity and the existence of highly celebrated female biwa players in twentieth century, with the “ exception of avocational performance by women in the court music tradition ,” professional biwa players were men until the shamisen's use in the sixteenth century.

Despite growing up in the projects, the Thomas family lived in close proximity to the locally celebrated Palace Theater on world-famous

Despite predictions by some in the press and others of the imminent collapse of the entire movement the marriage became the most important and celebrated event in the Peace Mission.

Despite his " hard image ", Klaus was celebrated at his 90th birthday all over the country.

Despite the evolution, Rock City remained one of the biggest names on the live circuit for alternative bands, and celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2011.

Despite all these advances, the person celebrated as the " father of modern chemistry " is Antoine Lavoisier who developed his law of conservation of mass in 1789, also called Lavoisier's Law.

Despite his disability, he was father to ten children who all went on to become celebrated physicians, including a Professor of Ophthalmology, a Professor of Surgery, a Professor of Medicine, a cardiothoracic surgeon, a rheumatologist, two anaesthesiologists and two orthopaedic surgeons.

“ The New York bankers got all they wanted ,” Wicker argues, “ with the single exception of banker control …. The Federal Reserve Act owes as much, if not more, to Senator Aldrich as it does to Representative Glass .” Despite some minor quibbles, Warburg himself largely celebrated the Owen-Glass Bill in The North American Review.

Despite being celebrated at the time as a " peace minister ", his diplomatic efforts to disengage his country from World War I failed to prevent the dissolution of Austria-Hungary.

Despite the bride being just ten years of age, the marriage of Caterina and Girolamo was celebrated on 17 January 1473, but consummated four years later ( 1477 ) when Caterina reached the age of fourteen.

Despite their celebrated success at turning spectacular plays in collaboration, relations between the teammates were said to have been often strained.

Despite the many hurdles, Clear celebrated the historic standup of the 213th Space Warning Squadron on 30 August 2006.