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 their wealth they had little power in the feudal system dominated by the rural land owners, and across Europe began to advocate for their own privileges and powers.

Despite vinaya prohibitions on possessing wealth, many monasteries became large land owners, much like monasteries in medieval Christian Europe.

Despite a wealth of abundant and diverse natural resources, Madagascar is one of the world ’ s poorest countries.

Despite the justification of Venetian embroilment in the terraferma that was offered in Foscari's funeral oration, delivered by the humanist senator and historian Bernardo Giustiniani, and some encouraging notable victories, the war was extremely costly to Venice, whose real source of wealth and power was at sea, and to her ally Florence ; they were eventually overcome by the forces of Milan under the leadership of Francesco Sforza.

Despite various cutbacks after 1966, expenditure on services such as education and health was still much higher as a proportion of national wealth than in 1964.

" Despite their wealth, the Flashmans " were never the thing ": Flashman quotes the diarist Henry Greville's comment that " the coarse streak showed through, generation after generation, like dung beneath a rosebush.

Despite Roberval's insistence that he accompany him back to Saguenay, Cartier slipped off under the cover of darkness and continued on to France, still convinced his vessels contained a wealth of gold and diamonds.

Despite their wealth and power, Augustus's family continued to live modestly in their house on the Palatine Hill.

Despite QPR's perilous financial condition in 2007 / 2008, the combined personal wealth of the club's new owners ( which included the world's then 8th richest man Lakshmi Mittal ) sparked speculation that QPR would receive significant further investment from their new benefactors drawing parallels to their wealthy West London neighbours Chelsea and Fulham.

Despite being a relatively small town, Wassenaar is well known in the Netherlands as a result of its conspicuous wealth.

Despite being overshadowed by Sputnik, and having to overcome the widespread humiliation of its unsuccessful early attempts, the Vanguard Project eventually met its scientific objectives, providing a wealth of information on the size and shape of the Earth, air density, temperature ranges, and micrometeorite impact.

Despite his newfound wealth and powerful new body, James continues to steal jewelry from people.

Despite his wealth, Getty was known for being a miser.

Despite keen investigation by the media, the extent of Roussel's wealth remains unknown.

* Despite the goal of vast accumulation of wealth, income mobility among the Ferengi seems to be quite high.

Despite this imbalance in the Rhodesian electoral system, Smith and other white politicians argued there was nothing fundamentally racist about it: They stated that improvements in black education and wealth would, over time, ensure a gradual move to majority rule.

Despite the almost identical and highly apomorphic nuptial plumage of their males, which continues to puzzle scientists ( see the Green-winged Teal page for a discussion of the species ' phylogeny ), they seem well distinct species, as indicated by a wealth of behavioural, morphological and molecular data.

Despite his growing wealth and fame he never owned a house of his own.

Despite his continual pronouncements of wealth, Bowie's estate was found to be very small.

Despite this, the Tecks were still seen as minor relatives, with little status or wealth.

Despite any negative stereotypes associated with his incredible wealth, Richie Rich is portrayed as kind and charitable.

Despite his youth, he had demonstrated his strength in several general elections when he had been able to get as many as twenty MPs elected to seats he controlled through his family's wealth and political patronage.

Despite the immense wealth present in the Bazaar during centuries ( still around 1870, according to an English traveler a tour of the inner Bedesten could easily ruin a few Rothschild families ), thievery occurred extremely seldom.

Despite this, the club had recruited many talented young players in the late 70s who would emerge as club greats.

Despite the lack of resources, a number of young talented players were found to play for the club ; crucially, when many of these moved on, including Stephen Pearson and James McFadden, they brought revenue in the form of transfer fees, and with John Boyle waiving the club's personal debt to him, its financial future was assured by the conclusion of the 2004 – 05 season with the club's yearly losses falling to one of the lowest figures in the Premier League and the club coming out of administration in time to avoid a ten-point Premier League penalty which was being phased in for teams in administration.

Despite the bad reputation in later times, he was a talented and realistic politician.

Despite having talented rosters, the Mystics have the most playoff appearances ( 6 ) without making it to the WNBA Finals.

Despite having become a popular senior at Gold Crown Academy () and known throughout the student body to be a very talented ballet dancer, he possesses no emotions, and is largely dependent on his roommate and childhood friend Fakir for his well-being and survival.

Despite being unwilling to think, he enjoys cooking and baking — which he is shown to be very talented at on many occasions — and a natural born soldier.

Despite some talented players like Papin, Éric Cantona or David Ginola the French national team fared disappointingly, missing the 1990 and 1994 World Cups – the later after two humiliating defeats at home against Israel and Bulgaria – and being ousted in the group stage of Euro 1992 by Denmark after a perfect record in the qualifications.

Despite setbacks, many new and talented young players are coming through to the top level.

Despite several very talented Artists of the Tudor Court in England, portrait painting was slow to spread from the elite.

The site's consensus states " Despite the presence of a large, talented cast, the jokes in Little Nicky are dumb, tasteless, and not that funny, and Adam Sandler's character is grating to watch.

Despite many extremely talented entertainers and movie stars, past and future, working for ENSA, the organisation was necessarily spread thin over the vast area it had to cover.

Despite being regarded as one of the most talented Liberal MPs and, until 1950, the only Liberal MP from Toronto, Croll was never summoned to the Canadian Cabinet where he would have become the first Jewish federal cabinet minister.

Despite the fact that the Irish League had not left Celtic Park between 1936 and 1948 ; Belfast Celtic were forced to leave the Irish League and Ballymena benefited by grabbing some of their talented players, including a new player-manager Billy McMillan.

Despite early setbacks and opposition, Motaung succeeded in assembling a good mix of veterans and talented rookies and the club soon became a force to be reckoned with.

: Despite the fact that Reiko is an extremely forgetful and absent-minded girl ( perhaps a result of the shock from the divorce of her parents ), she is an extremely talented pianist who discovered her Gate of Illusion when Invaders attacked her during her very first public recital at a theater.

Despite its talented cast, the result lacks Wilde's trademark bite ; it's soft and middlebrow, even though he was anything but.

Despite containing talented musicians, the Home Service were not commercially successful.

Despite being noted as a talented actor, Sukumaran did not receive any offers for some time after.

Despite such talented players all appearing in the same team, Yorkshire proved victorious.