" Despite McVeigh's wishes, Jones attempted to discredit the prosecution's case in an attempt to instill reasonable doubt.

Despite condemning the use of chains, the Royal Commission accepted the survey party's actions as " reasonable " and Canning and his men were exonerated of all charges, including " immorality with native women " and stealing property.

Despite enjoying what some might consider a reasonable amount of time on Greenland in conjunction with varying times of successes and failures, the Norse settlement in Greenland did not last more than 500 years.

Despite these limitations, however, it is usually reasonable to assume that deviations from these ideals will be small.

( 1 ) Despite the rules of common law, a person described in subsection ( 2 ) who voluntarily and without reasonable expectation of compensation or reward provides the services described in that subsection is not liable for damages that result from the person's negligence in acting or failing to act while providing the services, unless it is established that the damages were caused by the gross negligence of the person.

Despite his earlier promise, the government announced the same day that the state would supply the necessary funds to keep the banks afloat, with Kenny stating that seeking the money from bondholders would be neither " reasonable or logical.

Despite Laser having a good reputation with buyers in the marketplace, and many attempts from Ford to re-ignite interest in the model, it still failed to sell in reasonable numbers.

Despite the social, economic and political decadence that occurred in the seventeenth century, towards the end of the Habsburg rule, the city managed to maintain a reasonable pace of development, becoming world wide famous for its wine industry.

Despite this, it is still possible to estimate the threshold and slope by fitting psychometric functions to the obtained data, although estimates of psychometric slope are likely to be more variable than those from the method of constant stimuli ( for a reasonable sampling of the psychometric function ).

Despite the many problems facing the province, it is one of the more stable in the southeast of the country and there has been a concerted effort to improve the civic infrastructure, giving Paktia a reasonable rate of reconstruction.

Despite this emphasis on tenant rights, the government exercises a formidable eminent domain power and can expropriate land for any public purpose as long as reasonable compensation is afforded.

Despite high attendance in the A-League over both years of play and reasonable success on the field, the team faltered financially.

Despite this, Away Team had reasonable success in both sales and reviews.

# Adagio ( C minor ) – Despite being marked Adagio the second movement, in reality, moves along at quite a reasonable speed.

Despite the reasonable success of this move, Livid was now in direct competition with Sydney's Homebake festival and the nation-wide Big Day Out, and citing a " scarcity of headline acts on this year ’ s international festival touring circuit ", the event's promoters announced that the show would not he held in 2004.

Despite these potential problems, distance methods are extremely fast, and they often produce a reasonable estimate of phylogeny.

Despite his testimony, the jury was instructed to consider all the evidence and to return a verdict of guilty only if the prosecutors had left no reasonable doubt.

Despite questions of authenticity surrounding the discovery, most scholars agree that the letter is a genuine copy since it alludes repeatedly to the previous letter in a way that rules out chance beyond reasonable doubt.

Despite generally good levels of income, we see greater price pressures than ever before -- traveling back along the chain from consumer to distributor to manufacturer.

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 having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

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 its high price and rarity, thulium is used as the radiation source in portable X-ray devices and in solid-state lasers.

Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

Despite rumors that Chiang had put a high price on Zhou's head, he was quickly released by Bai Chongxi's forces.

VAZ 21099 4-dr saloon, rear view Despite NAMI ( National Automobile Institute ) having allowed the involvement of Porsche engineers in the engine development, the Samara never achieved the same success as the Riva, even though it did prove to be a robust car with a modern style and an initially competitive price.

Despite being less powerful, this engine was more efficient, allowing lower fuel consumption and better top speed, at the price of decreased acceleration.

" Despite the " outrageous " purchase price, and the ungenerous terms of the contract, the deal proved lucrative for Warner Bros., securing the studio $ 12 million in profits.

Despite an average ticket price of approximately $ 150, Van Halen's " A Different Kind of Truth Tour " proved to be a commercial success as well, with nearly all U. S. arena shows " either sold-out, or close to it.

Despite forcing Walton out, Holmes bought the store's inventory and fixtures for $ 50, 000, which Walton called " a fair price ".

Despite serious concern and many suggestions from its employees to require a minimum purchase and / or a delivery charge, Kozmo continued to use the same business model of free delivery no matter what the price, even if it were a $. 50 pack of gum or candy bar.

Despite the risks, a successful drive proved very profitable to everyone involved, as the price of one steer was $ 4 in in Texas and $ 40 back East.

Despite this, tobacco policy imposed a lower price on tobacco from areas closer to Manila.

Despite the high price of the vehicle, Peugeot anticipated demand for around 15, 000-20, 000 Peugeot 106 Electriques each year, with an expected total production run of 100, 000 vehicles.

Despite its price, many compared the PCjr unfavorably to the IBM PC rather than to other home computers, as IBM gave it " far less overall capability ... to keep it from biting deeply into the costlier product's sales ".

Despite being close enough to overhear his enemies discussing the price on his head the bold Captain Shenton escaped capture and kept his estate, passing it on through his daughters.

Despite growing evidence of an unsustainable property price and construction bubble during the mid-2000s, corrective regulatory action was delayed and timid.

Despite a BD30 million ( US $ 80 million ) cost to the business through fuel price rises during the year, Gulf Air recorded a profit of BD1. 5 million ( US $ 4. 0 million ) in the calendar year to December 2004, on revenues up 23. 8 % to BD476. 3 million ( US $ 1. 26 billion ) ( 2003: BD 384. 6 million / USD1, 020. 2 million ).

Despite the extremely large sell order, J-com's stock price dropped by no more than 15 % from its opening price to its low, ¥ 572, 000 ($ 4, 767 ), due to a large bid supporting the market as well as numerous day-traders taking advantage of the market imbalance, and the stock closed higher at ¥ 772, 000 ($ 6, 430 ) per share.

Despite the price, by March 1997 St. GIGA subscriptions peaked at 116, 378 households ; by June 2001 the number of subscribers had dropped to around 46, 000.

Despite very strong economic headwinds the company ’ s share price rebounded over tenfold compared to March 2009, and it roughly doubled its cash and cash equivalents to $ 124 million at the end of the first quarter, from $ 62 million a year earlier.