Despite its urban setting, the producers decided to avoid depicting more negativity than what was already present in the child's environment.

Despite initial critical negativity and public protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most financially successful films of the 1990s ; grossing $ 352 million worldwide.

Despite the fact that Nazis are portrayed as the enemy in Wolfenstein, the use of those symbols is a federal offense in Germany unless certain circumstances apply.

Despite these weak organizations, elections are still usually portrayed as national races between the political parties.

Despite its rareness, DID is portrayed with remarkable frequency in popular culture, producing or appearing in numerous books, films and television shows.

Despite this royal prestige, Champagne houses also portrayed Champagne as a luxury enjoyable by anyone, for any occasion.

Despite this, he is portrayed as immature and dimwitted, given his fondness for toys and inability to pronounce certain words, such as pistachio.

Despite this, lesbians and gay men are still often portrayed negatively in television, films, and other media.

Despite the abundance of such references, the gods are never portrayed as having command over Ṛta.

Despite his being a university graduate and proficient in English, Ricky is portrayed as a driver of a horse-drawn cab who waits for fares at a pier where tourists arrive by ship.

Despite his bigotry, he is portrayed as loveable and decent, as well as a man who is simply struggling to adapt to the changes in the world, rather than someone motivated by hateful racism or prejudice.

Despite being portrayed by the same actor, he is intended to be a different character.

Despite the fact that a choir of singers were portrayed in the video, the actual studio singing was exclusively Boni on all tracks, excluding the male voices.

Despite this, she is often portrayed as being more intelligent than the rest of crew, and seen as something of a " child prodigy ".

Despite any negative stereotypes associated with his incredible wealth, Richie Rich is portrayed as kind and charitable.

Despite being portrayed as the heel, when Guerrero asked the audience if they blamed him for doing it, the audience responded by yelling " No!

Despite appearing to have had good contact with the markets of Phoenicia, Asher appears, throughout its history, to have been fairly disconnected from the other tribes of Israel ; additionally it seems to have taken little part in the antagonism portrayed in the Bible between the Canaanites and the other tribes, for example in the war involving Barak and Sisera.

Despite the many stylised figurines, Olmec-period artisans and artist also portrayed humans naturalistically with " a most extraordinary realistic technique ".

Despite Woo being portrayed as a teenager, Ng was 24 years old by the end of the series.

Despite his nature, he is also portrayed as generally closer to Doug in the second series than in the first, sometimes acting more like a friend.

Despite being a fictional hero, Sharpe is often portrayed as the driving force in a number of pivotal historical events.

Despite his disdain and attitude towards most of his coworkers, he has more recently been portrayed as one of the most compassionate characters in the series, and seems to have a soft spot for Bender.

Despite his charisma, Lestat is portrayed as a lonesome individual.

Despite his monstrous appearance, the character is portrayed as timid, meek, and good-natured.

Despite the name, it is often portrayed as green, rather than gray.

NDSCS president John Richman is quoted as saying, " coach's and my conversation consisted of if this was a heterosexual incident, would we come to the same conclusion, and Coach Parsons answer was yes, Mr. Kuntz simply and plainly failed to perform his duties as assigned and was ongoing distraction to the game … Despite how this is being portrayed by some, Jamie's sexual orientation had nothing to do with his dismissal from the football team.

Despite initial skepticism in the Politburo of Luo's guilt, Mao pushed for an ' investigation ', after which Luo was denounced, dismissed, and forced to deliver a self-criticism.

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 historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite Kemp's voice on minority issues, Colin Powell's support and polls that showed about 30 % of blacks identified themselves as conservatives on issues such as school prayer, school vouchers and criminal justice, the Republicans were unable to improve upon historical support levels from African-American voters.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite these genre blending elements, wuxia is primarily a historical genre of fiction.

Despite many popular folktales, historical accounts of the ninja are scarce.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

Despite its persistence, however, it is not known whether the account is historical or fabricated.

Despite the confusion of dates the Roman Conquest is the first of 103 historical events in the book characterised as a Good Thing, " since the Britons were only natives at that time ".

Despite crediting the Chicago Historical Society for assistance with historical research, much of the film is fictionalized.

Despite similarities, most Tolkien ' authorities ' are wary of drawing analogies between his fictional works and the historical narratives they so strongly resemble.

Despite popular claims that LeMay advanced the notion of preventive nuclear war, the historical record indicates LeMay actually advocated justified preemptive nuclear war.

Despite this, the silent final S has never been universal, and other ethnic and historical influences tend to argue over it.

Despite this, Benabarre continues to be a significant historical and cultural center of attraction.

Despite this link, and the historical ties, there is no University of Paris system that binds the universities at an academic level.

Despite this emphasis on the differences between standard Slovene and the dialects of the Slavia Italiana, the very same policies of Italianization that were first applied to the neighboring Julian March were extended to the Slavia, thus paradoxically bringing the local populations, which diverged in their historical experiences, closer together.

Despite earlier strong feelings against the BBC, he lectured for a BBC historical series in 1961 and made more series for it in 1963, 1976, 1977 and 1978.

Despite modern man's claims to be nonreligious, he ultimately cannot find value in the linear progression of historical events ; even modern man feels the " Terror of history ": " Here too [...] there is always the struggle against Time, the hope to be freed from the weight of ' dead Time ,' of the Time that crushes and kills.

Despite the liberties Chariton took with historical fact, he clearly aimed to place his story in a period well before his own lifetime.

Despite Berg's approach, most scholars do not accept this view, as the historical record corresponds with Chinese materials that could not have had similar intention.

Despite the use of magic or other fantastic elements such as dragons, the world is normally presented as one that would function normally, one in which people could actually live, making economic, historical, and ecological sense.

Despite criticisms that Gibson deliberately and severely departed from historical accounts of first century Judea and Biblical accounts of Christ's crucifixion, some scholars defend the film as not meaning to be historically accurate.

Despite being the capital, the city is not the state ’ s main tourist attraction, eclipsed by Manzanillo and Comala, as it lacks major cultural and historical sites.

Despite the paucity of historical evidence for the existence of such a right, cultural references to the custom abound.