Despite the modern split, numerous sources stress an integration of esoteric and exoteric approaches to alchemy.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite the split, Vangelis has since produced several albums and singles for Demis Roussos, who, in turn, contributed vocals to the Blade Runner soundtrack.

Despite the fact it had been nearly four years after the Daimler / Chrysler split, the fourth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee shares a platform with the Mercedes-Benz M-Class.

Despite the split, Naples grew in importance, attracting Pisan and Genoese merchants, Tuscan bankers, and with them some of the most championed Renaissance artists of the time, such as Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto.

Despite their continued success, a variety of tensions emerged within the band to threaten their split.

Despite never becoming Prime Minister, he is regarded as one of the most important British politicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as a renowned orator and an interesting character who split both main parties.

Despite Seddon's promise, however, there was no vote – by convincing his party colleagues that a leadership contest would split the party in two, or at least leave deep divisions, Seddon managed to secure a permanent hold on the leadership.

Despite these findings, Paez fought on, and on December 5, 2003, in Phoenix, Arizona, he defeated Scott McCraken by a ten-round split decision in what would be Paez's final match.

Despite critical and commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict and legal turmoil, as Roberson and Luckett attempted to split off the group's manager Mathew Knowles.

Despite their apparent hiatus or split, the song " Freestyler " still remains popular, being used as background music or being played alongside other dance songs of the same era in clubs.

Despite the fact that the Constitution of Russia does not explicitly determine the President as the head of the executive branch, executive power is de facto split between the President and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government.

Despite his support for religious tolerance, he did fail, however, to resolve the conflict stemming from the Union of Brest split.

Despite health problems, he was rumored as late as February 1905 to be a potential candidate for Liberal prime minister should the Liberals soon return to power, as by then seemed likely as a result of the Unionist split over tariff reform.

Despite trailing third before Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain Law eventually won the election when the strong possibility of a draw between Long and Chamberlain that would split the party forced both to withdraw.

Despite dropping Louis in round one, and once again in round four, he lost a 15 round split decision.

Despite such growing signs of an end to the isolation the group endured during the McCarthyite period, it experienced a new split in the early 1960s.

Despite the fact that the Constitution of Russia does not explicitly determine the President as the head of the executive branch, executive power is de facto split between the President and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government.

Despite these problems, Curry won by a twelve-round split decision.

Despite this somewhat shady attempt of the Tories to split the opposition, the SDF fared extremely poorly, with John Burns receiving 598 votes in Nottingham while John E. Williams in Hampstead and John Fielding in Kensington netted a mere 27 and 32 votes, respectively.

Despite this, bassist Leif Edling has said that the band will not split up and they want to stop before they " get too old and start putting out half-lame albums.

Despite its size, Berkshire has not been included in broad stock market indices such as the S & P 500 due to the lack of liquidity in its shares ; however, following a 50-to-1 split of Berkshire's class B shares in January 2010, Burlington Northern was replaced by Berkshire in the S & P 500 on February 16, 2010.

Despite this split in the online community, the offline professional LAN tournaments run by CPL, ESWC, WCG, QuakeCon, and WSVG all used Q4Max.

Despite the difficulties resulting from the split, KKE continued its opposition to the Greek Junta throughout the next 6 years.

Despite the fact that this event took place in the series Star Trek: Enterprise, before the formation of both the Federation and the Prime Directive, it reflects the views of space-faring humans and their allies in the years leading up to the creation of the Federation ( ENT episode " Dear Doctor ").

Despite the rewrite, Generations co-writer Ronald D. Moore said Kirk's death, intended to " resonate throughout the Star Trek franchise ", failed to " pay off the themes death and mortality in the way we wanted ".

Despite Shatner's doubts, Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be fixed by something only available in the present day ( the Star Trek characters ' past ).

Despite being a regular character on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Muldaur was always listed during the opening credits as a " Special Guest Star ".

Despite cuts, Spectrum Holobyte managed to line up several big name licenses, including Top Gun, Magic: The Gathering, Star Trek: The Next Generation and MechWarrior.

Despite some unpleasant experiences during the start-up of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and following a long estrangement from the franchise, he remains enthusiastic about the ideals of the show.

* Despite the episode's negative reputation, it was included in iTunes ' " Best Of Star Trek " compilation.

Despite the perceived shortcomings of " Spock's Brain ", Dusay has taken the role in stride and is a popular guest at Star Trek fan conventions, often appearing with personal friend and fellow Star Trek actor Michael Dante.

Despite this, some elements which originated in the animated series have been used in subsequent stories, most notably the details of Spock's childhood and Vulcan culture revealed in the episode " Yesteryear ", which were alluded to in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Unification ", in the Star Trek: The Original Series remastered episode " Amok Time ", and in Star Trek: Enterprise.

Despite the cancellation, Paramount hoped to revive the series, and Berman began work on a possible new Star Trek film, which was ultimately rejected in favor of the J. J. Abrams-directed Star Trek.

Despite the fairy tale aspect, the world is essentially equivalent to ours, with references to Star Trek, the internet, Wayne Gretzky, and many other recognizable people, things or ideas.

Despite the local programming, the most popular and most profitable program was the syndication of the original Star Trek.

Despite having a lavish and promising acting career Thomas always had an interest in directing and these two experiences combined with her time spent on the set of Hill Street Blues learning about the craft of directing allowed her to direct further television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Arresting Behavior and several episodes of the HBO series Dream On the latter of which earned her an Emmy for best director.

Despite these professed views, he appears to have no strong moral compunctions ; in one episode he exploits an " all you can fit on a plate " breakfast deal at the Travel Tavern by bringing in a slightly larger plate of his own, a " scam " of which the staff are in fact fully aware but tolerate with amusement.

Other examples include Vaughan Williams ' Songs of Travel, Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs ( 1953 ) and Despite and Still, and Songfest by Leonard Bernstein, Hammarskjöld Portrait ( 1974 ), Les Olympiques ( 1976 ), Tribute to a Hero ( 1981 ), Next Year in Jerusalem ( 1985 ), and A Year of Birds ( 1995 ) by Malcolm Williamson, Honey and Rue by André Previn ( composed for the American soprano Kathleen Battle ) and Raising Sparks by James MacMillan ( 1997 ).

Despite this the low-floor revolution was in full swing and the Ultra attracted moderate orders from operators including Northern Ireland's Translink for its Belfast-based Citybus ( later Metro ) and Ulsterbus subsidiaries, Travel West Midlands / FirstBus subsidiary Northampton Transport-who both took gas powered examples, Ireland's Bus Átha Cliath ( Dublin Bus ), Greater Manchester-based Timeline Travel and Stagecoach's, Fife Scottish-who took a solitary example.

Despite those challenges, the Caymanians enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita and one of the highest standards of living in the world.

Despite its location in the tropics and the many micro climates found within the country, Guatemala City ’ s elevation and the resulting moderating influence of the higher altitude enable it to enjoy a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), though depending on location, it also borders on a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ).

Despite the halting pace of reform and signs of slowing GDP growth today, Slovenians now enjoy the highest per capita income of all the transition economies of central Europe.

Despite popular perceptions of the Vineyard as " Hollywood East ", the island is very low-key and quiet ; celebrities go to the Vineyard to enjoy the atmosphere, and not to be seen.

Despite this, Jefferson Airplane continued to enjoy tremendous success as " album " artists.

Despite owning a large corporate empire, he seems to enjoy micromanaging WNYX.

Despite the fact that Chinese communities now enjoy greater mainstream acceptance than they did 40 years ago and that some Chinese North Americans may take associating with other Chinese North Americans for granted as well as an unquestioned way of life, the goals and endeavors of the Taiwan Study tour remain the same.

Despite their previous opposition to Prussia, under the federal structure of the German Empire, Württemberg and Friedrichshafen continued to enjoy some special privileges following their incorporation into Germany following the Franco-Prussian War.

Despite these arguments, advocates of “ financial modernization ” predicted consumers and businesses would enjoy cost savings and greater convenience in receiving financial services from integrated “ financial services firms .”

Despite her growing frustration, they move to California, where he becomes a successful albeit desultory screenwriter, and the couple enjoy an affluent lifestyle.

Despite his apparent ease at taking lives, he does not enjoy killing or giving in to his berserker rages.

Despite opposing personalities, the siblings enjoy a close relationship, and Adrian often feels that she is the only family member who truly understands him.

Despite the prevailing pop country sound, enduring acts from the 1970s and earlier continued to enjoy great success with fans.

Despite the prevailing pop country sound, enduring acts from the 1970s and earlier continued to enjoy great success with fans.

Despite the two Manchester clubs attracting supporters from Stockport, Stockport County did enjoy a spell of success over their neighbours Manchester City.

Despite Oscar's problems – careless spending, excessive gambling, a poorly kept house filled with spoiled food – he seems to enjoy life.

Despite worse absence rates, public sector teachers enjoy salaries at least five times higher than private sector teachers.

" He did however enjoy UK comics, including newspaper strips such as " Syd Jordan's Jeff Hawke David Wright's Carol Day, " and Valiant which featured " Eric Bradbury's Mytek the Mighty and Jesus Blasco's Steel Claw " Despite such a variety of inspirations, Bolland credits his eventual pursuance of art as a hobby and then vocation to a primary school art teacher, who " evidently said all the right things to me.

Despite this reputation, most people who enjoy Seafair see them as an essential part of the event.

Despite being blamed by Stalin for some of the Soviet Union's most catastrophic World War II defeats ( although acting on Stalin's specific orders ), he continued to enjoy Stalin's patronage and suffered no real punishment.

Despite the party's loss, Telegdi continued to enjoy immense support in his riding, fending off the Conservative challenger Ajmer Mandur by over 12000 votes.

" Despite this acclaim, he did not generally enjoy teaching or mentoring graduate students:

Despite the manga's Japan-only availability, at least one writer has recommended Dai-Tokyo to people traveling to Japan as a good guide on how to enjoy their stay without spending too much.

Despite these crippling circumstances, Mordheim continues to enjoy a cult following over most of the Western world with fans working to compile all of the hard-to-find material released 1998-2006, to expand the rules and report of matters of general interest to the game or to re-write the now dated 1999-rules to facilitate smoother play.