Despite these incidences of occasional violence between African and European forces however, many African states were able to ensure that any trade went on in their own terms, imposing custom duties on foreign ships, and in one case that occurred in 1525, the Kongolese king, Afonso I, seized a French vessel and its crew for illegally trading on his coast.

" Despite the well-known examples of pejorative exonymic characters ( such as the " dog radical " in Di ), he claims there is no hidden racial bias in the meanings of the characters used to describe these different peoples, but rather the differences were " in occupation or in custom, not in race or origin.

Despite the custom of meeting on a Thursday, after the appointment of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister the meeting day was switched to Tuesday.

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

The amended Autonomy Statute of Catalonia has also been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community Despite these changes having been proposed and approved by fellow members of the PSOE, former Finance Minister Pedro Solbes disagreed with this new trend of assigning state investment quotas to territories based on any given autonomous community custom requirement and has subsequently compared the task of planning the Spanish national budget to a sudoku.

Despite its rapid growth in the Industrial Revolution, Tyneside did develop one peculiar local custom, the rapper sword dance, which later spread to neighbouring areas of Northumberland and County Durham.

Despite the forays into larger scales, the brand remains most famous for the small scale free-rolling models of custom hot rods and muscle cars it has produced since the range first appeared.

Despite very limited resources, the chassis, suspension, brakes, wishbones uprights and many other items where all custom designed for the car by Koenigseggs small team.

Despite the name, a large percentage of the motorcycles produced by popular companies such as Orange County Choppers, Indian Larry, Falcon Motorcycles, and Von Dutch Kustom Cycles are better described as custom bikes rather than choppers.

Despite the resulting medieval conflict between the emperor and pope, the concept of church maintenance by the ruler remained the accepted custom in most Western European countries.

Despite his physical weakness, the king still granted Sundiata his own griot at young age ; this was in order to have them grow together and provide constant consultation as was custom.

Despite the resulting medieval conflict between emperor and pope, the concept of church maintenance by the ruler remained the accepted custom in most Western European countries.

Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it.

Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

Despite using advanced Jet and rocket propelled aircraft, it was overwhelmed by Allied numbers and a lack of trained pilots and fuel.

Despite its controversial subject, the film is still recognized for its revolutionary approach to using music and cinematography.

Despite his reputation as a democrat, Chaves imposed a state of siege three weeks after he took office, using his emergency powers to attack the supporters of González and ex-President Felipe Molas López.

Despite great initial excitement, the seed was found to be that of a European Juncaceae or Rush plant that had been glued into the fragment and camouflaged using coal dust.

Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s.

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

Despite his advanced age, he himself hauled most of his 32, 000 books a quarter of a mile to their new home, using his wheelbarrow.

Despite using old systems of classification that incorrectly separated plantains as a different species solely because of their culinary use, they are now known to belong to the same species as dessert bananas.

Despite the legal disputes surrounding this invention, it is unquestionable that Campbell was the first to actually construct a telephone circuit using loading coils.

Despite the fact that optical fiber had been invented in 1970, this cable was still using coaxial cable technology.

Despite his concerns, Aman continued using Elad for intelligence operations until 1956, when he was caught trying to sell Israeli documents to the Egyptians.

Despite using an irrational number base, when using standard form, all non-negative integers have a unique representation as a terminating ( finite ) base-φ expansion.

Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of 1 – 2 hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm.

Despite improvements, the road was still considered a challenging drive ; the Victorian Police motor school even using it for training around 1966.

Despite accepting the above arrangements, Stalin dominated the conference, using the Soviet victory at the Battle of Kursk and military might, as well as key positions on the German front, to get his way.

Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott lures the alien from the forest to his bedroom using a trail of Reese's Pieces candy.

Despite these setbacks, in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley.

Despite this, they can often be verified using information from folklore.

Despite using the Tetris name, this game has no resemblance to its Russian namesake.

Despite this, wherries were using the navigation until 1912, when a disastrous flood damaged the locks.

Despite such examples of a similar construction that uses a participle instead of a gerund, using a noun or pronoun in anything except the possessive case as the subject of a gerund ( He affected me going there ) is incorrect in formal writing.

Despite its name, the gunfight actually occurred in a narrow lot six doors west of the rear entrance to the O. K.

Despite his name being in the titles of both games, DK is the damsel-in-distress in the sequels Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble !, where he is captured by K. Rool.

Despite eventually being certified Gold, critics panned the album, criticizing both Canibus's subject matter and Wyclef's beats, most of which were considered inferior to both " Second Round K. O.

Despite its active role as cheerleader and publicist, the SLP was unable to exert any sort of real influence in the Knights of Labor until it was already in steep decline, toward the start of the 1890s, when it won effective control of the New York District Assembly of the K of L in 1893.

In the case of varieties, such a sheaf associates to each open set U the ring of all rational functions on that open set ; in other words, K < sub > X </ sub >( U ) is the set of fractions of regular functions on U. Despite its name, K < sub > X </ sub > does not always give a field for a general scheme X.

Despite a 7 % lead in popular vote over the PA. SO. K., New Democracy could only secure a marginal majority in the Hellenic Parliament, electing 152 MPs out of a total of 300 ; The PA. SO. K.

Despite ND's falling performance in the Greek legislative election, 2007, the PA. SO. K.

Despite this problem, the British government hailed this test as a successful thermonuclear explosion, and the government announced to the world that the U. K. had become a thermonuclear power.

Despite their efforts, James K. Polk, the Democrat who favored annexation, became President.

Despite his wide responsibilities, Mack took a detailed personal interest in every aspect of VME / K design.

Despite this setback, Roy Thomas had sufficient faith in him to give him the art chores on issues # 66 and # 67 of The Avengers ( July – August 1969 ) after he had returned to the U. K., and he continued to work at a distance for Marvel Comics for several years, providing the art for a number of stories in the horror anthology titles Tower of Shadows and Chamber of Darkness.

Despite his father, Govindan Nambiar, being a believer in the feudalism, Nayanar took to the national movement of the time at a very young age under the influence of his cousin, K. P. R.

Despite Smith's departure, the U. K. division of Rough Trade retained Roback's original record deal, contractually obligating him to supply a follow-up to Opal's debut LP.

Despite clashes in the past with their interests, Southern Pacific Republicans believed Pardee the better candidate against the Democratic contender Franklin K. Lane, a San Francisco City Attorney and an ardent anti-Southern Pacific campaigner.

Despite this, Estonia remained a step ahead of the rest of the Soviet Union and during the perestroika period a few underground bands like J. M. K. E.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, Sabbath is not based on the equally corpulent character Sunday from the novel The Man Who Was Thursday ( 1904 ) by G. K. Chesterton, though this is jokingly alluded to in the Doctor Who novel History 101 ( 2002 ).

Despite being nearly identical to the 1993 models, the entire 1994 model year full-size pickup and SUV lineup ( C / K, Sierra, Suburban, Yukon, etc.

* Hamilton, K. " Writers ' Retreat: Despite the proliferation of Black authors and titles in today's marketplace, many look to literary journals to carry on the torch for the written word ".

Despite paid-for box seat tickets, Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley allegedly ejected Sianis and goat due to the latter's odor.

Despite it not being a sugarless gum, in 2003 in the United States, Wrigley's replaced some of the sugar with aspartame and Ace K, both artificial sweeteners.

Despite K. S. Ranjitsinhji scoring a " marvellous " 154 and Tom Richardson " bowling in his finest form " the Australians managed to hold on for a 3 wicket victory.

Despite his popularity, he was later sidelined by the music composers for reasons not known to the public. He was as important a singer in the 70s and 80s in the Tamil and the Malayala films as S. P. Balasubramaniam and K. J. Yesudas.