Despite the inevitable xenophobia from the locals, the French colony at Fort Lee was enthusiastic about finally invading the coveted American market.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.

Despite improvements in the laws in recent years, Indonesia's intellectual property rights regime remains weak ; lack of effective enforcement is a major concern.

Despite this, Singer argues that it has led to a difficult intellectual climate, with professors not able to teach courses in Germany on applied ethics and campaigns demanding the resignation of professors who invited Singer to speak.

Despite Germain's intellectual achievements, her death certificate lists her as a “ rentière – annuitant ” ( property holder ), not a “ mathematicienne.

Despite selling more than a million copies by 1945, its influence within Nazism ( beyond providing specious intellectual cover for unintellectual governance ) remains doubtful.

Despite the prominence of early modern intellectual historians ( those studying the age from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment ), the intellectual history of the modern period has also been the locus of intense and creative output on both sides of the Atlantic.

Despite the profound differences regarding their ethical and world visions, Albizu's fiery and charismatic rhetoric captured Balaguer's imagination and his recollection of this occasion was a harbinger of his passion for politics and intellectual debate.

Despite its relatively small population, Greifswald retains a supra-regional relevance linked to its intellectual role as a university town and to the taking of the central functions of the former Prussian Province of Pomerania after World War II, such as the seat of the bishop of the Pomeranian Lutheran Church, the state archives ( Landesarchiv ) and the Pomeranian Museum ( Pommersches Landesmuseum ).

Despite focusing heavily on basketball, Wake Forest psychology department chairperson Deborah Best was quoted: " Tim [...] was one of my more intellectual students.

Despite his generally poor health, his intellectual grasp and wide knowledge and research gradually made him famous as a jurist and historian.

Despite his later political beliefs, he was, in the early years of his career, a self-proclaimed and unrepentant artistic snob who firmly believed that true art was only for the intellectual elite.

Despite some reservations, the great Spanish philosopher and intellectual, José Ortega y Gasset, wrote:

Despite moving among high society, the family and their friends, condescend to Julien for being an uncouth plebeian — his intellectual talents notwithstanding.

Despite her undiminished love for Julien, his imperiously intellectual nature, and its component romantic exhibitionism, render Mathilde ’ s prison visits to him a duty.

Despite persistent popular interest, it took a long time for the intellectual establishment of England to give serious attention to animal magnetism.

Despite such criticisms, his reputation as a notable young writer and intellectual continued to develop.

Despite this, the post-World War II economic liberation enabling Germany to once again lead Europe, which Röpke and his allies ( Walter Eucken, Franz Böhm, Alfred Müller-Armack and Alexander Rüstow ) were the intellectual muscle behind, occurred by implementing policy divergent to that advocated by Ludwig Von Mises.

Despite his legal efforts, his intellectual property rights were passed from company to company until they ended up at Westinghouse.

Despite this additional work, however, women continued to encounter prejudice from men, who typically challenged their intellectual prowess.

Despite this, she was still an intellectual force in London's educated classes.

Despite having an intellectual outlook somewhat at odds with Christian fundamentalism, many of Manhattan's books were sold by Jack Chick, an American fundamentalist publisher.

Despite its appearance, the Germanic name is not derived from the Latin name, judging from the change from earlier o into a, which is characteristic of the Germanic languages.

Despite the fact that the sympathetic strings are now thought of as the most characteristic element of the instrument, early forms of the instrument almost uniformly lacked them.

Despite these comments, it is important to note that the ' bounce ' described is characteristic of many African American vernacular dance forms.

Despite the decreasing use of the 3 pin " rat trap " (" rottefella " in Norwegian ) binding in lighter cross country, the characteristic " duckbill " toe it uses is still assumed in the design of heavier cable bindings, and 75 mm boots are still widely available, especially for telemark technique and more rugged touring.

Despite his belief that the Bible was fallible, Martineau continued to hold the view, which was not so much characteristic of the man as of the school in which he had been trained, that " in no intelligible sense can any one who denies the supernatural origin of the religion of Christ be termed a Christian ," which term, he explained, was used not as " a name of praise ," but simply as " a designation of belief.

Despite the absence of an actualized sweeping change to the existence of large industrial conglomerates in Japan, the zaibatsu's previous vertically integrated chain of command, ending with a single family, has now widely been displaced by the horizontal relationships of association and coordination characteristic of.

Despite this, the cells often present a certain shape, with a characteristic small size, with typically about 10 % of the volume of an Escherichia coli cell.

Despite the frequent appearance of a characteristic " HE " monogram, the attribution of works to Eworth — and the identification of his sitters — remains in flux.

Despite its location in the tropics, due to its high altitude, Huambo features spring-like temperatures throughout the course of the year, a characteristic common among cities with this climate.

Despite all handicaps the Balti language has retained many honorific words characteristic of the Tibetan dialects and many other languages.

Despite the inefficient production of aldosterone, the more characteristic mineralocorticoid effect of 11β-OH CAH is hypertension.

Despite this characteristic, Senator Kerry still managed a slim victory in Upstate New York, with 1, 553, 246 votes to 1, 551, 971 for Bush.

Despite the cartoonish graphics characteristic of family-friendly computer games, the game has several violent death scenes.

Despite early findings of an association between the DRD4 48bp VNTR and novelty seeking ( a characteristic of exploratory and excitable people ), a 2008 meta-analysis compared 36 published studies of novelty seeking and the polymorphism and found no effect.

Despite this inherent contradiction, the book lacks much of the cynical tone and humour that is so characteristic of Machiavelli's other works.

Despite his Deviant heritage, Kro possesses a number of superhuman traits characteristic of an Eternal.

Despite patient-to-patient variability and the diversity of radiographic findings, the X-ray is diagnostic in infantile hypophosphatasia, and can reveal the characteristic abnormalities found in other forms.

Despite the characteristic reserve that eschewed historical reconstruction, this work, revised in a 1984 second edition, remains the indispensable guide, tool, and authority for every Dravidianist.