Despite these efforts, Cairo's population has doubled since the 1960s, reaching close to seven million ( with an additional ten million in its urban area ).

Despite this, the cumulative effect of additional species in an ecosystem is not linear — additional species may enhance nitrogen retention, for example, but beyond some level of species richness, additional species may have little additive effect.

Despite Stephenson's losing some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept offers for additional work.

Despite different labeling, the function remains the same — to provide additional power for amplification of the signal.

Despite frigid temperatures, the crowd numbered 57, 167, with an additional several million watching the game on television.

Despite the arrival of additional settlers, including whites, slaves and free blacks, from Bermuda and the receipt of relief supplies from Virginia and New England, the Eleuthera colony struggled for many years because of poor soil, fighting between settlers, and conflict with the Spanish.

Despite serious cash flow problems, they moved UPI's headquarters from New York City to Washington DC, incurring additional major costs due to construction cost overruns.

Despite organizational changes and while additional techniques were added, the Transcendental Meditation technique itself remained relatively unchanged.

Despite the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu ( r. 174 – 160 BCE ) and Emperor Wen ( r. 180 – 157 BCE ) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raided Han territories south of the Great Wall for additional goods.

Despite the value and investment of public capital, growing delays in air and surface transportation, aging electric grid, an untapped renewable energy sector, and inadequate school facilities all have justified additional funding in public capital investment.

Despite the additional transistors, the reduction in ground wires and bit lines allows a denser layout and greater storage capacity per chip.

Despite his penchant for coming in " under budget ," Capra spent an additional five shooting days in multiple takes, testing angles and " new " perspectives, treating the production as a type of workshop exercise.

Despite the appeal of a prominent Irish merchant, James Malo, to the Lord Mayor, Brackley Kennett, no additional protection was offered to the area.

Despite the hardships, in 1934 all downtown buildings in the county seat were in use, and a few additional businesses opened even as the depression continued.

Despite the reduced debt, in November new club CEO Cameron Schwab declared that it required urgent AFL assistance to continue, requesting additional funding to its special annual distribution.

Despite motte-and-bailey and ringworks being common designs amongst Norman castles, each fortification was slightly different – some castles were designed with two baileys attached to a single motte, and some ringworks were built with additional towers added on ; yet other castles were built as ringworks and later converted to motte-and-bailey structures.

Despite the New York City setting, additional skyscrapers in Chicago, Illinois provided inspiration for the opening sequence of the skyline, such as the Merchandise Mart, Aon Center.

Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide.

Despite orders to seek no direct military assistance from France, the American commissioners were instructed to work to acquire most favored nation trading relations with France, along with additional military aid, and also encouraged to reassure any Spanish delegates at that the United States had no desire to acquire Spanish lands in the Americas in the hopes that Spain would in turn enter a possible Franco-American alliance.

Despite the use of cross-platform middleware, Sonic Heroes was Sega's first multi-platform title, and the development team found additional challenges in working with the Xbox, the platform that they had very little experience with.

Despite a nearly completed agreement, talks fell apart at the last minute when Karmanos wanted an additional $ 45 million dollars to cover losses during the three years the new arena was to be built.

Despite these additional flights, passengers at Belfast International did not rise beyond 6 million in 2008 as some had predicted but in fact fell by 10, 000 passengers to 5. 2 million.

Despite this, the tradition of most Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues is to use Hebrew ( usually Ashkenazi Hebrew ) for all except a small number of prayers, including the Kaddish, which had always been in Aramaic, and sermons and instructions, for which the local language is used.

Despite his instructions that his ashes be scattered in Hawaii where he was married, Kevyn's remains are buried with his mother in Louisiana.

Despite instructions from Paschal ’ s successors, Gelasius II and Calixtus II, the archbishop continued to refuse to consecrate Thurstan, and Thurstan was still unconsecrated when Ralph died.

Despite the best efforts in London by authorities such as the Viscount Castlereagh to quell Dutch fears and the continuing efforts to reach an agreement between the nations that eventually became the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London of 1824, as well as to send instructions to Raffles to undertake far less intrusive actions, the distance between the Far East and Europe had meant that the orders had no chance of reaching Raffles in time for his venture to begin.

Despite this hour's warning, only the P-40 squadron at Iba took off, and it ran low on fuel in futile responses to confusing instructions from the 24th PG as it altered its analysis of Japanese intents.

Despite being microprogrammed, the CPU was superscalar, often completing two instructions per cache cycle.

Despite the detailed instructions derived from the testing period, small variations in ambient temperature, humidity and settling dust continually threw off the movement of the parts enough to end the sequence early.

Despite the judge's refusal to present the juries with self-defense instructions, the first trials both ended with hung juries and were declared mistrials.

Despite her reputation for ruthlessness and cruelty, she appeared to be genuinely devoted to her husband and maintaining stability of the empire — so much so that long after Emperor Gaozu's death, she, then firmly in control, continued to carry out his instructions on the succession of ministers.

Despite his boss ' instructions Penny lets them stay in the cabin and gives them a week to move out.

Despite being extremely caustic and a deliberate underachiever, Jaye's life takes an odd turn when various muses, in the form of animal objects, begin talking to her and delivering cryptic instructions.

Despite her specific instructions not to erect a large marble monument, on May 1, 1955, a large memorial stone that " dwarfed the original gravestone " was dedicated by Crosby's " friends to whom her life was an inspiration ".

Despite Granville's instructions, complaints ( particularly regarding allegations of exorbitant fees ) from land holders and prospective purchasers increased throughout the decade.

Despite instructions not to do so, the crew ( perhaps inadvertently ) photographed Area 51, causing a minor dispute between various government agencies as to whether the photographs showing this secret facility should be released.

Despite the instructions referring to a finite fleet, the Commodore 64 game never ends: when you clear the eighth ship called " Itsnotardenuff ", you're just replaced back on the ship, with higher-ranking droids on each deck.

Despite instructions not to, a good number of the delegates would insist on folding their punched card as they would a normal ballot.

Despite Jack's instructions to leave Little Jack to self-soothe by himself, Greg cannot bear to listen to Little Jack's cries and tends to the boy to cheer him up, turning the television on, acting funny and inadvertently teaching Little Jack to say " asshole ".

Despite being able to execute instructions in the same number of cycles as an i486DX, integer performance on RapidCAD suffers due to the absence of level 1 cache and the bottleneck of the 386 bus.

Despite this, the instruction set and assembly syntax are quite similar to other Zilog processors: Load / store operations uses the same LD mnemonic ( no MOV or MOVEs ), typifying instructions such as DJNZ, are the same, and so on.

Despite this incident, no instructions regarding automatic crossings had ever been given to Wynn's drivers, and at Hixon the driver assumed that it was safe to cross because the police car had already done so.

Despite his tendency to be a stickler for rules and regulations, Gunn is respected by Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino because he does not inform Admiral Sandecker of their exploits, which are often in violation of instructions that have been given to them.

Despite his many positive achievements in the formative period of Singapore's development, he adopted measures in his administration which conflicted with Raffles ' instructions, notably in allowing the erection of houses and go downs on the Padang and on the nearby banks of the Singapore River.

Despite standing instructions to police that the firing should be effective and directed below the waist, there were number of cases in which the victims, mostly Muslims, appear to have sustained injuries above the waist, leading to death.