Despite the term's humorous intent, CNN, the BBC, and National Public Radio's programs Morning Edition, Day To Day, and All Things Considered have used it several times to discuss public opinion.

Despite this, he was to be re-elected in the following term's elections.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite the historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite Kemp's voice on minority issues, Colin Powell's support and polls that showed about 30 % of blacks identified themselves as conservatives on issues such as school prayer, school vouchers and criminal justice, the Republicans were unable to improve upon historical support levels from African-American voters.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite these genre blending elements, wuxia is primarily a historical genre of fiction.

Despite many popular folktales, historical accounts of the ninja are scarce.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

Despite its persistence, however, it is not known whether the account is historical or fabricated.

Despite the confusion of dates the Roman Conquest is the first of 103 historical events in the book characterised as a Good Thing, " since the Britons were only natives at that time ".

Despite crediting the Chicago Historical Society for assistance with historical research, much of the film is fictionalized.

Despite similarities, most Tolkien ' authorities ' are wary of drawing analogies between his fictional works and the historical narratives they so strongly resemble.

Despite popular claims that LeMay advanced the notion of preventive nuclear war, the historical record indicates LeMay actually advocated justified preemptive nuclear war.

Despite this, the silent final S has never been universal, and other ethnic and historical influences tend to argue over it.

Despite this, Benabarre continues to be a significant historical and cultural center of attraction.

Despite this link, and the historical ties, there is no University of Paris system that binds the universities at an academic level.

Despite this emphasis on the differences between standard Slovene and the dialects of the Slavia Italiana, the very same policies of Italianization that were first applied to the neighboring Julian March were extended to the Slavia, thus paradoxically bringing the local populations, which diverged in their historical experiences, closer together.

Despite earlier strong feelings against the BBC, he lectured for a BBC historical series in 1961 and made more series for it in 1963, 1976, 1977 and 1978.

Despite modern man's claims to be nonreligious, he ultimately cannot find value in the linear progression of historical events ; even modern man feels the " Terror of history ": " Here too [...] there is always the struggle against Time, the hope to be freed from the weight of ' dead Time ,' of the Time that crushes and kills.

Despite the liberties Chariton took with historical fact, he clearly aimed to place his story in a period well before his own lifetime.

Despite Berg's approach, most scholars do not accept this view, as the historical record corresponds with Chinese materials that could not have had similar intention.

Despite the use of magic or other fantastic elements such as dragons, the world is normally presented as one that would function normally, one in which people could actually live, making economic, historical, and ecological sense.

Despite criticisms that Gibson deliberately and severely departed from historical accounts of first century Judea and Biblical accounts of Christ's crucifixion, some scholars defend the film as not meaning to be historically accurate.

Despite being the capital, the city is not the state ’ s main tourist attraction, eclipsed by Manzanillo and Comala, as it lacks major cultural and historical sites.

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

Despite such humble origins, he was accepted into the hugely wealthy court of Charlemagne around 791 or 792.

Despite their origins & horrific appearance, the Ulkmen are a largely peaceful people.

Despite becoming one of the largest polities in Europe at one time, strangely the origins of the Khazars are unclear.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Another view is that Robin Hood's origins must be sought in folklore or mythology ; Despite the frequent Christian references in the early ballads, Robin Hood has been claimed for the pagan witch-cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe.

Despite this, origins such as Syracuse or the Iranian city of Shiraz have been proposed.

Despite their common origins, the two technologies diverged, with each technology retaining a subset of the features of the original Objective-C code base, while adding some new features.

Despite its origins, the Charleston is most frequently associated with white flappers and the speakeasy.

Despite the controversial philosophical origins of the concept, particularly its close association with logical positivism, operational definitions have undisputed practical applications.

Despite its mixed origins, this aircraft had excellent performance and formed the basis for a number of future fighters.

Despite the Irish origins of the genre, Celtic metal is not known to be popular in Ireland.

Despite his humble origins, he showed great ability in running the affairs of state, leading a revival of Imperial power and to a renaissance of Byzantine art.

Despite this success, Zeno continued to be unpopular with the people and Senate because of his barbarian origins ; his right to the throne was limited to his marriage with Ariadne and his relationship to Verina, the dowager Empress.

Despite his father's origins there is little to suggest that Stilicho considered himself anything other than a Roman, and his high rank within the Empire suggests that he was probably not Arian like many Germanic Christians but rather a Nicene Christian like his patron Theodosius I, who declared Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Empire.

Despite her Etruscan origins, she later became identified with Venus.

Despite the criticism, The Origins of the Second World War is regarded as a watershed in the historiography of the origins of the Second World War.

Despite the various theories of the work's origins, Rodríguez de Montalvo's Spanish version, as the only complete edition known, is considered definitive, and it was the one who made the character widely known on a European scale.

Despite their San Francisco Bay Area origins, they positioned themselves as Southern rock stylists, singing about bayous, the Mississippi River, catfish, and other popular elements of Southern iconography.

Despite the anti-German hysteria of the time, there seems to have been no adverse comment on his German origins.

Despite its Wellington origins, the West Coast town of Blackball is often regarded as the birthplace of the party, as it was the location of the founding of one of the main political organisations which became part of the nascent Labour Party.

Despite the Congressional origins of, and President Roosevelt ’ s lack of support for, the 1933 Banking Act, many descriptions of the New Deal or of the 1933 Banking Act refer to the Act as New Deal legislation.

Despite the modern pasty's strong association with Cornwall, its exact origins are unclear.

Despite Joanna's deep spirituality and friendships with Catherine of Siena and Saint Bridget of Sweden, her court was notable for its extravagance with her collection of exotic animals and servants of various origins including Turkish, Saracen, and African.

Benjamin Madley wrote: " Despite over 170 years of debate over who or what was responsible for this near-extinction, no consensus exists on its origins, process, or whether or not it was genocide " however, using the " U. N. definition, sufficient evidence exists to designate the Tasmanian catastrophe genocide.

Despite Ludendorff's maternal noble origins, however, he married outside them, to Margarete née Schmidt ( 1875 – 1936 ).