Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite the recent modest and stable growth, Djibouti is faced with many economic challenges, particularly job creation and poverty reduction.

Despite its relatively recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration and the guideline recommendations, digoxin use is decreasing in patients with heart failure, likely the result of several factors.

Despite recent gains, 40 % of the population lives below the poverty line, more than double the rate five years ago.

Despite recent improvements, with an exploding population Ethiopia remains one of the poorest nations in the world.

Despite improvements in the laws in recent years, Indonesia's intellectual property rights regime remains weak ; lack of effective enforcement is a major concern.

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 the recent war's divisions along ethnic lines, Liberia remains a multiethnic and multicultural country.

Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpieces.

Despite this most recent power-stripping, the President remains the ex officio chair of the National Security Council, as per the National Security Act 2004.

Despite a demonstrated appearance of blunted affect, recent findings indicate that many individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are emotionally responsive, particularly to stressful or negative stimuli, and that such sensitivity may cause vulnerability to symptoms or to the disorder.

Despite rising investments, foreign investors still regard Vietnam as a risky destination, as confirmed by recent survey by the Japan External Trade Organization of Japanese companies operating in Vietnam.

Despite the preeminence of Tikunei haZohar and despite the topmost priority of Torah study in Judaism, much of the Zohar has been relatively obscure and unread in the Jewish world in recent times, particularly outside of Israel and outside of Chasidic groups.

Despite the extensive classical art galleries and museums in the city, there is also a contemporary arts scene that has become increasingly prominent in recent times.

Despite the deep-seated norm against legal proceedings, litigation in the Chinese courts has increased dramatically, especially in recent years.

( Despite recent finds indicating a Roman presence near the modern city of Minden, its location remains disputed ; other sites near Minden or Rinteln have been suggested by the historian Hans Delbrück ( 1848 – 1929 ) and the military writer Kurt Pastenaci ( 1894 – 1961 ), respectively.

Despite New Zealand's immigration liberalisation in the 1980s, Britons are still the largest group of migrants to New Zealand, due in part to recent immigration law changes which privilege fluent speakers of English.

Despite the fact that TM research has moved from " kooky margin to respectable mainstream ", TM's more recent appeal has been attributed to its ability to relax without chemical assistance rather than to the research.

Despite relatively recent evolutionary divergence ( 90 million years ), the extent of molecular divergence between centrics and pennates indicates rapid evolutionary rates within the Bacillariophyceae compared to other eukaryotic groups.

Despite this, there has been some recent success in apprehending and prosecuting these criminals.

Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.

Despite the example set by most of his recent predecessors, Henry and his second wife, Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, were buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, on the north side of Trinity Chapel and directly adjacent to the shrine of St Thomas Becket.

Despite its ubiquity, the notion of rings is relatively recent ; this may be explained by a feature of modern mathematics that emphasizes the study of abstract structures.

Despite more recent materials, Dendix and Neveplast remain the only artificial ski surfaces on which it is practical to run ski slalom races.

Despite recent changes in the field of anthropology and a shift in Taiwanese government ( Republic of China ) objectives, the Gaoshan and Pingpu labels in use today maintain the form given by the Qing to reflect aborigines ' acculturation to Han culture.

Despite the recession, Pittsburgh came into town with this imposing list of averages: Smoky Burgess, Gino Cimoli, Bill Virdon, Bob Clemente and Dick Groat, each

Despite the recession of the late 1950s, the company sold $ 94, 000 worth of these modules during 1958 alone, turning a profit at the end of its first year.

Despite ( or because of ) the recession, the total number of franchised units increased by 5. 3 % from 2009 to 2010.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

Despite efforts to restore ( or at least improve ) the popularity of the Conservative party, Labour remained far ahead in the opinion polls as the 1997 election loomed, despite the economic boom that had followed the exit from recession four years earlier, and the swift fall in unemployment.

Despite the global financial crisis, the South Korean economy, helped by timely stimulus measures and strong domestic consumption of products that compensated for a drop in exports, was able to avoid a recession unlike most industrialized economies, posting positive economic growth for two consecutive years of the crisis.

Despite the economic recession of the late 2000s, the Tri-Cities area continued to maintain steady growth and a stable economic climate due in large part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which directed funding and jobs to the Hanford site and its various cleanup efforts.

Despite the economic recession in 2008, the barber shop industry has seen continued positive growth.

Despite growth into new markets outside the brand's traditional footprint, the company was hit hard by the recession of 2008 – 2009.

Despite an economic recession that cut into new car sales industrywide, and especially affected the medium-priced car market that Olds competed in, Oldsmobile saw only a slight decline in sales for 1958 and even rose in industry standings to fourth-place behind the " Low-Priced Three " of Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth, while surpassing a now-floundering sister division Buick on the sales charts for the first time in many years.

Despite many job losses in the area since the recession started in 2007, as with all over Ireland, Belmullet and the Mullet Peninsula has good natural resources in terms of fishing, tourism, wonderful location, unspoilt landscape and renewable energy resources ( wind, hydro and ocean energy ) and related industries are all bringing continued signs of improvement for the area.

Despite having achieved a circulation of 670, 000 Talk magazine's publication was abruptly halted in January 2002 in the wake of the advertising recession following the September 11, 2001 attacks and the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center.

Despite the largest recession to hit the United States in the last 70 years, gentrification continues steadily throughout the neighborhood, if not accelerated by the affordable prices of living in Bedford Stuyvesant.

Despite the growing popularity of university-based executive education around the world, the global economic recession has slowed the industry ’ s growth during the past few years.

Despite some failures, the company revealed growing revenues though shrinking profits in the early 1990s, also attributed to the recession in the French economy.

Despite some cutbacks during Ontario's recession of the early 1990s, the agriculture ministry had a budget of about $ 600 million in 1994, kept an agricultural representative in each of the 52 county offices.

Prior to his resignation, in 1991, Daim ’ s contribution was succinctly summed up as thus: “ Despite having much of his tenure clouded in controversy, the outgoing Finance Minister has nonetheless earned the reputation as one of the country ’ s ablest economic architects, having steered Malaysia through recession into four straight years of high growth .” In another article, “ Daim exits office having earned the distinction of being a hard – driving technocrat, who resisted pressure by rival ministers who wanted to alter fiscal policy for political expediency ….”

Despite the British economy still being strong and recession not even on the horizon, it was reported that sales for the previous year had fallen to £ 742million compared to £ 854million in 2003.

Despite the recession ( started in 1998 after the international economic shock due to the 1998 Russian financial crisis ), bank deposits continued to grow until 2001, although at a much slower rate than in previous years.