Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

Despite the relative cultural monopoly of the capital and the centralized government, the divided geography of the country allowed distinct rural dialects to flourish during the centuries.

Despite its relative political weakness in this period, Borno's court and mosques under the patronage of a line of scholarly kings earned fame as centers of Islamic culture and learning.

Despite the relative ease of executive agreements, the President still often chooses to pursue the formal treaty process over an executive agreement in order to gain congressional support on matters that require the Congress to pass implementing legislation or appropriate funds, and those agreements that impose long-term, complex legal obligations on the U. S.

Despite the relative popularity of the soundtracks, they have not been licensed for release outside of Japan and are only available by importing them.

Despite her relative inexperience, Leigh was chosen to play Ophelia to Olivier's Hamlet in an Old Vic Theatre production staged at Elsinore, Denmark.

Despite the novel approach of the family being ( mostly ) supernatural creatures, the show followed the typical family sitcom formula – the bumbling, well-meaning dad, the practical mom, the eccentric extra-nuclear live-in relative, and the precocious kid.

Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976.

Despite the relative pressure disadvantage, modern rimfire magnums in. 17-caliber, 5mm, and. 22-caliber generate muzzle energy comparable to smaller centerfire cartridges.

* Despite its relative small size, Columbia was once the county seat of Henry County ( before the county was divided to form Houston county.

Despite the wrath of the flood, William Milnes was able to take charge of the town and rebuild with relative ease.

Despite the substantial uplift, most of the relative motion along the Alpine Fault is sideways, not vertical.

Despite its distinct appearance, the Wild Turkey is actually a very close relative of pheasants

Despite this, vinyl records remain popular, and discussion about the relative merits of analog and digital sound continues ( see Analog sound vs. digital sound ).

Despite his immaturity and relative weakness as compared to Anpanman and his hero friends, he is courageous, protective of his friends, and has a " never say die " attitude.

Despite the popularity that Kauffman enjoyed in British society and her success as an artist, she was disappointed by the relative apathy that the British had towards history painting.

Despite the small area, the city's relative altitude accounts for more than 137 – m –: the highest mountain reaches 361, 8 metres above the sea, and the lowest point lies at an altitude of 224 metres above sea level.

Despite the game's relative obscurity and continued neglect by its copyright holders, the game continues to be played by DragonQuest devotees.

Despite the CART / USAC divide, from 1983 to 1995 the race was run in relative harmony.

Despite the relative low number of Polynesian languages, and the relative abundance of data already available on many of them, the comparative method was often reduced to comparisons of vocabulary, its shared sporadic sound changes and, as Wilson did in 1985, comparison of pronominal systems which is perhaps the second most commonly described aspect of " minor " languages often available for comparison after the lexicostatistical lists.

Despite his relative youth and inexperience, Julius Chambers argued the case, because of his intimate knowledge of the facts involved.

Despite the relative large number of lawyers that presumably would handle divorce, adoption and child custody matters, Texas reported that of 77, 056 attorneys, only 697 in the entire state were certified in family law ( which is, arguably, the applicable specialty ).

Despite an appearance on ABC-TV's popular Thank Your Lucky Stars, the single peaked at a modest No. 35 in the UK, a relative failure compared to début releases of Epstein's most successful artists ( The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas ).

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

Despite the rarity of Prader-Willi syndrome, it has become widely-known in wider society and often depicted in popular culture, partly due to the fascination surrounding the insatiable appetite and obesity associated with the syndrome.

Despite some popularity in the late 1990s, the Nagra D and DII are a rarity on U. S. films as of the mid-2000s.

Despite their rarity and their short lives they are heavily represented among the stars visible to the naked eye ; their inherent brightness trumps their scarcity.

Despite the cladestine nature of Mongolian poaching for pelican skulls, up to 50 pelican bills can be found in a commercial market there and its known ( due to the species ' rarity ) that a single pelican is considered a fair trade for 10 horses and 30 sheep.

Despite the extreme rarity of the instrument, there does exist a repertoire, albeit a very small one.

Despite the rarity of strangely colored lobsters, many more of them are reported being caught.

Despite being a better-adapted virtual machine for modern computing hardware and being just as accessible to developers, Glulx continues to lag behind the Z-machine in popularity, largely due to the comparative rarity of interpreters.

Despite the extraordinary rarity of this book ( because the author published it at his own expense, without a publisher and having to stop printing because of lack of funds ), the Machinae Novae was the work which mainly contributed to Veranzio's popularity around the world.

Despite the soundtrack's success, at the time, the songs from Sholay attracted less attention than the dialogues — a rarity for Bollywood.

Despite the rarity of the species in 1960, a male was shot, and the specimen is now held by the Zoological Museum Amsterdam.

Despite being in rarity in between the other commons and uncommons of The Dark, Maze of Ith is the most valuable card of the set, far more valuable than any of the rare cards.

Despite the rarity of complete fossils, very rarely specimens do allow us to gain an insight into the innards of the Thelodonts.

Despite its size, the whale shark feeds only on plankton, squid, and small fish by filter feeding.

Despite being from the Atlantic Ocean, Matawan was the site of three shark attacks on July 12, 1916, in Matawan Creek, causing two deaths.

Despite series-high ratings, the changes were critically panned and many felt that at that point the series had " jumped the shark ".

Despite the greater notoriety of the great white shark and other sharks habitually found nearer the shore, the oceanic whitetip is suspected to be responsible for many fatal attacks on humans, as a result of predation on survivors of shipwrecks or downed aircraft.

Despite this, the solute composition ( i. e. osmolarity ) of a bull shark in freshwater is still much higher than that of the external environment.

Despite his illustrious career, he would forever claim that his greatest achievement was the catching of a shark weighing, with rod and reel, off Port Lincoln!

Despite its fearsome appearance and strong swimming ability, it is a relatively placid and slow-moving shark.