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Despite and service
Despite the lip service paid by local governments, the anti-secrecy statutes have been continuously subverted by reservations and rationalizations.
Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.
Despite the advent of a regular television service in the Federal Republic in 1952, cinema attendances continued to grow through much of the 1950s, reaching a peak of 817. 5 million visits in 1956.
Despite his efforts to rise above the rank of private — he even called upon Frank Capra to intercede on his behalf — he never achieved officer's status or any commendations during his six months of service.
Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.
Despite the need to start back at the bottom of the naval hierarchy, Cook realised his career would advance more quickly in military service and entered the Navy at Wapping on 7 June 1755.
Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.
Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties.
Despite her years of service, she had never received a regular salary and was for years denied compensation.
Despite pictures in the press, the case was subsequently dropped after the public prosecution service decided that Schmidt's actions had not been a threat to public health.
Despite his refusal of official approval, the pope nonetheless allowed the plot to proceed without interfering, and, after the failed assassination of Lorenzo, also gave dispensation for crimes done in the service of the church.
Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".
Despite the name's similarity to the FRS allocation, the system is a proprietary design, rather than an official U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) allocated service.
Despite the King's best attempts, Caroline retained a strong popularity amongst the masses, and pressed ahead with plans to attend the coronation service on 19 July 1821 as Queen.
Despite his military service, Schiele was still exhibiting in Berlin, Munich and Dresden.
Despite his previous support of the patronage system, Arthur, nevertheless, became an ardent supporter of civil service reform as president.
Despite its image of an industrialised city whose activity depends mainly on military order, the service sector represents 75 % of the economic activity.
Despite its growing obsolescence, the Mosin – Nagant saw continued service throughout the Eastern bloc and the rest of the world for many decades to come.
Despite having the most intensive service, the Vine Street line was one of the first Western Region urban branches to close under the Beeching axe.
Despite having a heavy cold and almost losing his voice, he was recruited immediately for radio announcements and script writing at German radio's English service.
Despite a decline in population in recent decades, Great Bend continues to serve as a service industry and retail commerce center for central Kansas.
Despite the flourishing service, education, medicine, arts and high tech sectors, Pittsburgh still faces many problems, including poverty, crime and pollution.
Despite San Jose's position as the most populous city in the Bay Area, SJC is the smallest of the three Bay Area airports offering scheduled service ( 8. 4 million annual passengers in 2011 ), with less than a quarter of the passengers of the region's major international airport San Francisco International Airport ( SFO ), and fewer passengers than Oakland International Airport ( OAK ).
Despite the addition of service, Frontier Airlines pulled out of SJC in May 2010, citing lack of profitability on its single flight from the airport to Denver, Colorado.

Despite and rendered
Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.
Despite being identified in reports by the word usually rendered in English as " peasant ", they weren't " peasants ".
Despite this, more than 1 million tonnes of castor beans are processed each year, and approximately 5 % of the total is rendered into a waste containing negligible concentrations of undenatured ricin toxin.
Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.
Despite certain spatial ambiguities this is the painter's most thoroughly rendered architectural space, and the only one in which a ceiling is shown.
Despite his efforts, the new constitution rendered his land claims after August 20 invalid, but it also provided land grants to each resident as of March 2.
Despite these protests, Ceauşescu remained in the relatively good graces of the United States and other Western powers almost to the last, largely because his relatively independent political line rendered him a useful counter to the Soviet Union in Cold War politics.
Despite WBZ being housed in Springfield's top hotel, its location in a mid-sized market rendered it somewhat difficult to attract top-flight artists to the station, leading Westinghouse to open a studio at the Hotel Brunswick in Boston on February 24, 1924.
Despite, and perhaps fueled by, Selena's death and crossover success, the " Latin explosion " continued in the late ' 90s as a handful of rising stars who shared a Latin heritage — like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez, who rendered a Golden Globe performance as Selena on film -- were touted as proof that sounds from Latin countries were infiltrating the pop mainstream.
Despite heavy close-range enemy gunfire ( he ) rendered invaluable assistance to his commanding officer throughout seven daring attacks upon three large enemy convoys, contributing materially to the sinkng of six enemy merchant vessels, totaling over 44, 000 tons ...
Despite government intervention at times, especially during the Socialist era, popular Burmese music has become considerably influenced by Western music, which consists of popular Western songs rendered in Burmese and pop music similar to other Asian pop tunes.
Based on Lee's familiarity with the three major arms of an Civil War-era army, military historian Ezra J. Warner summarized him as an able and versatile corps commander, saying " Despite his youth and comparative lack of experience, Lee's prior close acquaintanceship with all three branches of the service — artillery, cavalry, and infantry — rendered him one of the most capable corps commanders in the army.
Despite his aspirations, he is rendered servile by the mere sight of the count's gloves and boots.
Despite the modern dominance of 3D graphics in games, HUDs are frequently rendered with a 2D look, often using sprites.
Despite these tensions, another settlement was in sight, but Knox's staunchest antagonists rendered it irrelevant by notifying the local magistrates about Knox's An Admonition to Christians ( 1554 ) which disparaged Phillip II, Mary I, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, whom Knox compared to Nero.

Despite and Qajar
Despite the rising tensions, director of the Tobacco Régie Julius Ornstein arrived in Tehran in April and was assured by Prime Minister Amin al-Sultan that the concession had the full support of the Qajar dynasty.
Despite attempts to discourage him by the American consul in Tabriz, Edward Doty, he led about a hundred volunteers attempting to help defend the besieged city against Qajar royalist troops fighting for Mohammad Ali Shah.
Despite this defeat, the Zand leader was able to hold Shiraz until the Qajar forces withdrew to Tehran.

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