Despite this seeming approval, the financiers only approved a production budget of $ 6 million, forcing the crew to hire most of the cast playing the Hickory basketball team and many of the extras from the local community around New Richmond.

Despite not possessing the four-octave range boasted by Kiske, Deris's vocal similarity to Kai Hansen, his enthusiasm, his strong songwriting skills, the return of the " classic " Helloween sound in songs such as " Where the Rain Grows " and " The Game Is On ", and the seeming rejuvenation of Weikath and Grapow seemed to strike a chord with the fans.

Despite these seeming difficulties, Xanth was colonized in several waves by groups of invaders and nomads from Mundania over the course of several centuries.

Despite this seeming willingness to avoid change, Hayes became one of the first major college head coaches to recruit African-American players, including Jim Parker, who played both offensive and defensive tackle on Hayes ' first national championship team in 1954.

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 the setbacks, Toivonen remained the title favourite with no driver seeming able to match his pace.

Despite being an Anglophile he suspected the British coveted Brazil and he was alarmed by the seeming ease by which they had taken Havana and Manila from Spain in 1762.

Despite it initially seeming pivotal to New Labour's reform of policing and the antecedent of a new race equality agenda, it has remained a contested concept that has been critiqued by multiple constituencies.

Despite the seeming spontaneity of the swap, it was undoubtedly planned ( at least on the part of Davies and the producers ), as evidenced by the fact that Davies, in turn, produced his own set of questions on loose-leaf paper ( most of which he directed at Fry ), and also by the photographs and obvious-answer graphics which accompanied Davies ' questions.

Despite seeming to be a borrowed French phrase, the expression cul-de-sac originated in England during the period when French was spoken by the English aristocracy.

Despite at first seeming poised to continue, the next morning Anthony Weiner conceded the election to Fernando Ferrer.

Despite seeming cold and distant, Mimi is not unaffected by her rebellious son.

Despite the seeming loss of Raimondi ’ s originals today, it seems certain that at least one full set survived, since both the 1550 woodcuts and the so-called Caracci suite of prints ( see below ) agree in every compositional and stylistic respect with those fragments that have survived.

Despite the onset of his stroke in 1956, Solomon recorded a handful of works in stereo, but whether in stereo or mono, his recordings are all worth hearing, the clarity of his playing overcoming any seeming technical shortcomings in the recordings themselves.

Despite seeming to enjoy the kiss, she hits him and runs away but forgets her cellphone.

Despite this seeming regard for Paul's health, those at the prison deprived her of sleep.

Despite its seeming organicism, blob architecture is unthinkable without this and other similar computer-aided design programs.

Despite the seeming link to language, this organization was not strictly aligned with linguistic boundaries, but tended to combine the Order's knights and possessions in several nations or states ; the German tongue, for instance, included Scandinavia, Hungary, Poland and Bohemia.

Despite the seeming logic of these ideas, ecologists questioned the results of the SLOSS debate due to the lack of a critical body of evidence on the subject.

Despite the seeming disparateness of the topics he has examined, most of Glaeser's work can be said to apply economic theory ( and especially price theory and game theory ) to explain human economic and social behavior.

Despite seeming mean, he actually is a nice boy who once helped Maruko learn how to ride a bicycle.

Despite his own desperate struggle, the Imperial Prince at once complied, demonstrating the high degree of confidence and mutual co-operation between the two generals.

Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

Despite the honey bee's painful sting and the stereotype of insects as pests, bees are generally held in high regard.

Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.

Despite his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.

Despite high ticket prices, the exhibition lost money, with only one recorded sale.

Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist.

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite these disadvantages, a high operating temperature provides an advantage by removing the need for a precious metal catalyst like platinum, thereby reducing cost.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

Despite high expectations, 1975 was among the Astros ' worst in franchise history.

Despite a slowing global economy, Indonesia ’ s economic growth accelerated to a ten-year high of 6. 3 % in 2007.

Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.

Despite Japan's high standing in the League, the subsequent Lytton Report declared Japan to be the aggressor and demanded Manchuria be returned to the Chinese.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

Despite the estimations held by Hitler and others in the German high command, the Soviet Union was by no means weak.

Despite the high content of chemicals that are noxious to herbivores, some have evolved the ability to withstand the chemical defences of pepper plants, for example the sematurine moth Homidiana subpicta or some flea beetles of the genus Lanka.

Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, South Korea suffers perpetual damage to its credit rating in the stock market due to the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on the financial markets of the South Korean economy.

Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly, about 1. 2 % per year.

Despite the high population of gays and lesbians who called Greenwich Village home, very few places existed, other than bars, where they were able to congregate openly without being harassed or arrested.

Despite the high level of integration with word processing in general personal computing.

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

Despite its high cost, portable X-ray devices use thulium that has been bombarded in a nuclear reactor as a radiation source.

Despite high speed play and rapid exchanges, a player can see clearly what side of the racket was used to hit the ball.