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Despite the use of the prefix anti -, the terms Semitic and anti-Semitic are not directly opposed to each other.
Despite the name, the off-label use of " antipsychotics " is said to involve deploying them as antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, mood stabilizers, cognitive enhancers, anti-aggressive, anti-impulsive, anti-suicidal and hypnotic ( sleep ) medications.
Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.
Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.
Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.
Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.
Despite this papal condemnation, both Catholicism and Protestantism permit the use of ambiguous and equivocal statements in specific circumstances.
Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.
Despite the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.
" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.
Despite having a tremendous chronology, their use was not at all consistent or unchanging.
Despite the criticisms, DES was approved as a federal standard in November 1976, and published on 15 January 1977 as FIPS PUB 46, authorized for use on all unclassified data.
Despite its relatively recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration and the guideline recommendations, digoxin use is decreasing in patients with heart failure, likely the result of several factors.
Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.
Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").
Despite the worldwide ban, agricultural use continues in India North Korea, and possibly elsewhere.
Despite the popularity of these events, the Dachshund Club of America opposes " wiener racing ", as many greyhound tracks use the events to draw large crowds to their facilities.
Despite the evolution of Ethernet technology, all generations of Ethernet ( excluding early experimental versions ) use the same frame formats ( and hence the same interface for higher layers ), and can be readily interconnected through bridging.
Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades.
Despite the demonstrated efficacy of awards in changing behavior, their use in education has been criticized by proponents of self-determination theory, who claim that praise and other rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.
Despite these differences, it is possible to use characters and monsters from a D & D game in Gamma World and vice versa.
Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.
Despite the use of " Hatti ", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.
Despite the efforts of philologists from all parts of the world, and despite the use of modern cryptographic analysis, the signs remain undeciphered.

Despite and graphics
Despite his favorable comments on the Grecian scenery, he criticized the graphics for its small, bicolored and barely animated sprites, its black backgrounds, and the absence of multiple scrolling layers.
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 the release of Microsoft Chart, a graphics companion software, Multiplan continued to be outsold by Lotus 1-2-3.
Despite the graphics, players were confined to back and forth motion as seen in other fighting games.
Despite the prevalence of computer aided drafting, many older architects and even some structural designers still rely on paper and pencil graphics produced on a drafting table.
Despite the limited computer graphics | graphics capabilities of the Apple II family | Apple II, the player's view of the SunDog warping to a new system was impressive for the era in which it was released.
Despite a host of new features and graphics, RDX sold very poorly in stores, due to some bugs and slow gameplay ( most notoriously the F4 map screen, which brings the game to a crawl ).
Despite the LC's minimal video specs with a 12 " monitor, any LC that supports the card can be switched into 560x384 resolution for better compatibility with the IIe's 280x192 High-Resolution graphics ( essentially doubled ).
Despite claims of " enhanced " graphics, bugs plagued bleem!
Despite superior graphics technology and a wide array of non-gaming capabilities, however, the PSP has failed to overcome Nintendo ’ s DS system, which, with its addition of a second, touch-sensitive screen, remains the fastest-selling console worldwide and in most territories.
Despite dated graphics by today's standards, the gameplay mechanics and field HQ interface still have significant merit and popularity.
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 varying bit depths in CGA's graphics mode ( see below ), CGA processes colors in its palette in four bits, yielding 2 < sup > 4 </ sup > = 16 different colors.
Despite the difficulties in creating a visual component to early electronic games imposed by crude graphics, small view-screens, and power consumption, video games remained the primary focus of the early electronic game market.
Despite having the truest-to-arcade graphics of all the home versions of Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat Gold did not receive high marks for visual quality ; Game Revolution commented: " The graphics are inexcusably horrible it's quite a depressing let-down on Sega's 128-bit masterpiece, especially when compared to Soulcalibur ".
Despite the superiority of the technology in comparison to typical SuperVGA cards of the era, the relatively high cost and emerging local bus graphics standards meant that IT distributors and PC manufacturers could not see a niche for these products at consumer level.
Despite its age, GPL has remained a top class sim even in 2008 thanks to a strong community, who collectively have updated the graphics to utilize the current CPU and graphics capabilities and have created loads of add-on tracks of a high quality.
Despite intriguing gameplay and impressive graphics, the high learning curve and somewhat experimental gameplay translated into poor sales.
Despite limited graphics, and a side view of the action ( whereas Kick Off had recently introduced the bird's-eye perspective ), EHIS held its own because of a powerful control system that gave the players unprecedented control over the game.
Despite complaints such as lessened interactivity compared to previous games and poorer graphics, publications including Macworld, Computer Gaming World, and The Washington Post judged the game a fitting end to the series.
Despite this, the internal architecture of Mesa 3D was designed to be open for attaching to graphics processor-accelerated 3D rendering.

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