Despite the fact that the team played in a state-of-the-art stadium that was built in 1997 and used during spring training by the Atlanta Braves, attendance did not meet expectations ; after trailing the Southern League in attendance in multiple years, the Rays ' owners announced the team would move to Montgomery in 2004 ( terminating their 10-year lease with Disney after four seasons ).

Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.

Despite security advice and warnings from the Garda Síochána, on 27 August 1979 Mountbatten went lobster-potting and tuna fishing in a thirty-foot ( 10 m ) wooden boat, the Shadow V, which had been moored in the harbour at Mullaghmore.

Despite declarations by the Callejas government in 1989 of its intent to increasingly address social issues, including land tenure and other needs of small farmers, the early 1990s were jolted by increased conflicts between peasants and the Honduran security forces.

Despite this protectiveness, many libraries loaned books if provided with security deposits ( usually money or a book of equal value ).

Despite all the security put in place, there are reports of Taliban activities and assassinations of tribal elders.

Despite its undoubted success, this in turn led to what many saw as an " Americanisation " of the area, with even its private security force kitted out in something resembling New York Police uniforms.

Despite the enormous resources invested by the UK into security sector reform in Sierra Leone, there are continuing financial pressures.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

Despite the TARDIS's apparent infallibility in its security, some of the instruments inside or the interior itself have been breached and remote-controlled.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Despite its name, the Department of the Interior has a different role from that of the interior ministries of other nations, which are usually responsible for routine police functions which are largely performed in the U. S. by state and local governments and national security and immigration functions which are performed by the Department of Homeland Security primarily and the Department of Justice secondarily.

Despite its relatively weak security, the Penet remailer was a hugely popular remailer owing to its ease of anonymous account set-up and use compared to more secure but less user-friendly remailers, and had over 700, 000 registered users at the time of its shutdown in September 1996.

Despite most of the windows of the chapel being covered over by sheets of tar-paper which rattled loudly in the wind, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols continued to be broadcast from the chapel every Christmas Eve throughout the war – even though the name of the college could not be broadcast for security reasons.

Despite his misery, Rubinstein made enough money from his American tour to give him financial security for the rest of his life.

Despite the security, thousands of copies were stolen from an Earlestown, Merseyside warehouse on 15 June 2003.

Despite the issues generally associated with developing countries, such as poverty, over-population and food security, there is surprisingly a growing concern for the environmental vitality of Manila Bay.

Despite the attempt to make Las Vegas more family-friendly, such advertising for these services goes on undisturbed by police or hotel security.

Despite earlier soviet penetration, SIS began to recover as a result of improved vetting and security, and a series of successful penetrations.

Speaking on this measure in the House of Lords, Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough said " I trust your Lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property …" Despite a brilliant speech by Romilly, all Bills were defeated.

Despite these efforts at caution and security, he could at times be reckless.

Despite stringent security measures at Hogwarts, Harry is confronted by Black at the end of his third year of schooling, and Harry learns that Black was framed and is actually Harry's godfather.

Despite e-business being business done online, there are still physical security measures that can be taken to protect the business as a whole.

Despite the incident having led the Secret Service to prepare for his return, Weaver was able to bypass security and meet the then recently inaugurated George W. Bush in 2001.

Despite the presence of Cruz and other security watching the building the theft takes place in the final seconds of the new 2000 millennium countdown.

Despite such tight security, an incident occurred on November 17, 2002 in which a man apparently slipped through airport security at Ben Gurion Airport with a pocketknife and attempted to storm the cockpit of El Al Flight 581 en route from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, Turkey.

Despite the apparent peeling on the LM's outer skin, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally.

Despite its toxicity, a considerable fraction of petroleum oil entering marine systems is eliminated by the hydrocarbon-degrading activities of microbial communities, in particular by a remarkable recently discovered group of specialists, the so-called hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria ( HCCB ).

< span id =" switch_vulnerabilities "> Despite this, switched Ethernet should still be regarded as an insecure network technology, because it is easy to subvert switched Ethernet systems by means such as ARP spoofing and MAC flooding .</ span >

Despite the differences between systems, the purposes are the same: to guide users of clinical research information on which studies are likely to be most valid.

Despite the intent of the original allocation, in recent years the fastest-growing uses of these bands have been for short-range, low power communications systems.

Despite being modest in number ( perhaps 7, 000 units total as of 1988 ), Lisp machines commercially pioneered many now-commonplace technologies – including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, computer mice, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering, and networking innovations like CHAOSNet.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Despite rigorous research and development projects, end-users experience mixed results with handwriting recognition systems.

Despite some significant political differences between them, all of these administrations share similar legal structures, much of which are predicated on the judicial systems of previous Somali administrations.

Despite the existence of vi clones with enhanced featuresets, sometime before June, 2000, Gunnar Ritter ported Joy's vi codebase ( taken from 2. 11BSD, February, 1992 ) to modern Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux and FreeBSD.

Despite these problems, the VESA Local Bus became very commonplace on later 486 motherboards, with a majority of later ( post 1993 ) 486-based systems featuring a VESA Local Bus video card.

Despite the popularity of the DISCiPLE and + D systems, most software released for them took the form of utility software.

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 their relatively modest height compared with some continental ranges, walking and climbing in the Scottish mountains may be made treacherous by their latitude and exposure to Atlantic and Arctic weather systems.

Despite the many server-branded products available ( such as server versions of hardware, software or operating systems ), in theory any computerised process that shares a resource to one or more client processes is a server.

Despite the increased cost, the more modern variation ( which can be considered as " heavier " than old streetcar systems, even though it is called " light rail ") is the dominant form of urban rail development in the United States.

Despite the new standards, the older systems remained popular into the 20th century.

Despite technological advances, such as improved varieties, genetically modified organisms, and irrigation systems, weather is still a key factor in agricultural productivity, as well as soil properties and natural communities.

Despite this, they are routinely deposited in numerous ways on land and into water systems, whether as part of an intended process or as industrial and household waste.

Despite this lack of support from IBM, CP / CMS achieved great success as a time-sharing platform ; by 1972, there were some 44 CP / CMS systems in use, including commercial sites that resold access to CP / CMS.

" Despite the uproar that has arisen amongst operagoers, Harada points out that none of the opera houses using acoustic enhancement systems "... use traditional, Broadway-style sound reinforcement, in which most if not all singers are equipped with radio microphones mixed to a series of unsightly loudspeakers scattered throughout the theatre.

Despite dispersal and elaborate camouflage, a lack of antiaircraft artillery and poor warning / communication systems resulted in the loss of 65 FEAF aircraft on the ground alone.

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 this resource limit, and the use of relatively primitive collision detection algorithms, programmers have been able to create believable, if inexact, systems for use in games.

Despite interest in home automation, by the end of the 1990s there was not a widespread uptake-with such systems still considered the domain of hobbyists or the rich.