Despite the prominence of large elliptical and spiral galaxies, most galaxies in the universe appear to be dwarf galaxies.

Despite its fame, it was in this period that Rabbinical Judaism, led by Hillel the Elder, began to assume popular prominence over the Temple priesthood.

Despite his character's prominence, Kelley's contract granted him only a " featuring " credit ; it was not until the second season that he was given " starring " credit, at the urging of producer Robert Justman.

Despite its prominence in the industry, the grape is a relatively new variety, the product of a chance crossing between Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc during the 17th century in southwestern France.

Despite their prominence, Rondelet's De Piscibus Marinum is regarded as the most influential, identifying 244 species of fish.

Despite the prominence of early modern intellectual historians ( those studying the age from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment ), the intellectual history of the modern period has also been the locus of intense and creative output on both sides of the Atlantic.

Despite this, Molotov became a protégé of and close adherent to Stalin, an alliance to which he owed his later prominence.

Despite the prominence of the Cherokee, there is evidence that other Native Americans were in the region before them.

Despite its usually calm conditions, Folly Beach has gained prominence as one of the more popular surf spots along the East Coast.

Despite losing its prominence as an important town, the port itself continued to remain extremely active and economically valuable.

Despite its prominence in popular culture, plain black flags were often employed by most pirates in the 17th-18th century.

Despite its young age, the law school has risen to national prominence.

Despite his prominence in UMNO, Mahathir was not a candidate in the 1959 election, ruling himself out following a disagreement with then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Despite Wagner's increasing prominence as one of several acclaimed self-publishers of the period — along with Jeff Smith ( Bone ), Colleen Doran ( A Distant Soil ), James Owen ( Starchild ), and Sim — the series stalled after issue # 12 in 1994.

Despite its seeming ordinariness and unimportance in the national or provincial scheme of things, Malinao rose in prominence during the struggle against colonial rule at the end of the 19th century.

Despite their lack of prominence among the literary elite, women still played an important part as characters in Arabic literature.

Despite giving the appearance of liberalism by granting women's suffrage, Groza pursued a series of reforms attempting to clamp down on the prominence of politically dissident media outlets in the nation.

Despite the destruction of Tlemcen's already-feeble agricultural base, Tlemcen rose to prominence as a major trading and administrative center in the region under the succeeding reign of the Almohads.

Despite, achieving great prominence already, Čolić continued appearing at the occasional festival such as the Zagreb one in 1976 where surprisingly he finished in fourth place singing " Ti si bila, uvijek bila ".

Despite being hotly hunted, the two lovers succeeded in escaping to Moscow and later rose ( separately ) to prominence in the International Communist movement ( in Brazil and China resepctively ).

Despite the prominence of Stiglitz ' 2001 Nobel prize lecture,

Despite the Jacobins ' later prominence during the Reign of Terror, in the summer and fall of 1790 they were still well within the mainstream of the popular or national party.

Despite her young age, he booked her for the lead in a revival of Mr Tower Of London, which had brought Gracie Fields to prominence 19 years earlier.

Despite its prominence, only one in every five Transgolians actually exhibits this benign " third eye " mutation.

Despite the rewrite, Generations co-writer Ronald D. Moore said Kirk's death, intended to " resonate throughout the Star Trek franchise ", failed to " pay off the themes death and mortality in the way we wanted ".

Despite being tightly associated with a specific time and place in American history, these themes have allowed Westerns to be produced and enjoyed across the world.

Despite its popular appeal, the movie is considered to be a masterpiece for its themes of deception, mistaken identity, and moral relativism in the Cold War era.

Despite his previous affinity with politically and socially-charged lyrical themes, Gaye helped popularize sexual and romance-themed music and funk, while his 1970s recordings, including Let's Get It On ( 1973 ) and I Want You ( 1976 ) helped develop the quiet storm sound and format.

Despite the diversity in themes, the style of the games was fairly consistent.

Despite the comic style, Nichols ' plays deal with the most serious of themes.

Despite the use of sexual organs in her work, Chicago refrained from using gender politics or identity as themes.

Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.

Despite the variations, there are a few common themes.

Despite the assumption of many TV station executives, the series was not aimed at children but deliberately sought an older audience ; many episodes featured adult themes such as adultery, divorce, and drug use.

Despite its run during the Vietnam War, a time of " profound disillusionment with war and the military ," Gomer Pyle remained popular because it avoided war-related themes and instead focused on the show's rural roots and the relationship between Pyle and Sgt.

Despite the album's incongruity in the Bowie catalogue, some commentators have discerned embryonic themes that inform the artist's more mature work.

Despite a poor box office reception amidst accusations of weak plotting and simplistic rendering of the main themes, Nirvana has achieved something of a cult status, especially in Europe.

Despite its origins, the symphony is without programmatic context, and is in the form of an extended development of musical themes taken from the morality rather than an attempt to cast it directly into symphonic form.

Despite the often exotic settings and science-fiction plot lines, the stories generally remain realistic on the personal level between the characters and friendship, love and spirituality are some of the key themes of the series.

Despite the new line-up, many of the themes of the original series continued ; in particular, Songbird's decision to cripple Bullseye in retaliation for the villain crippling the super-hero Jack Flag, Norman Osborn's own struggle for redemption as he claimed, and the growing friendship between Songbird and Radioactive Man.

Despite the name, the band's traditional lyrical themes involving evil and occultism has evolved into a more " mystic " path, and they have modified their musical direction on each album, utilizing elements such as clean melodic baritone vocals, doom, gothic metal and industrial music traits, and male / female Benedictine chants.

Despite featuring a literary treatment consistent with historical fiction, Stephenson has characterized the work as science fiction, due to the presence of some anomalous occurrences and the work's particular emphasis on themes relating to science and technology.

Despite being a biopic of Elizabeth's life and reign, the series presented its main character with particular interest in several themes, most notably the emotional impact of her mother's execution and her love for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

Salinger an obvious but unacknowledged influence " and also compares the work of Mamatas to " Lewis Carroll with an ISP, Mishima hammering out his death poem on a Blackberry or Harlan Ellison hyped up on crystal meth ..." while suggesting a certain immaturity to Mamatas's themes: " Despite his tremendous gifts, Mamatas dares little.

Despite his personal feelings about the Stalinist regime Myaskovsky did his best not to engage in overt confrontation with the Soviet state, and while some of his works refer to contemporary themes, they do not do so in a programmatic or propagandistic way.

Despite being bland, it did, however, have what is considered one of the better opening music themes of the show, which would be used ( albeit in various incarnations ) for virtually every episode under Dick Ebersol's tenure.

" Despite the popularity of this popular meaning of Romance, other works are still, occasionally, referred to as romances because of their uses of other elements descended from the medieval romance, or from the Romantic movement: larger-than-life heroes and heroines, drama and adventure, marvels that may become fantastic, themes of honor and loyalty, or fairy-tale-like stories and story settings.

Despite the fact that his work in Žetva and Rani Mraz was mainly pop rock-oriented, in his later career he often used elements of rock, chanson and folk music, while his lyrics often dealt with humorous or political-and social-related themes.