Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

Despite their adherence to the status quo, the forces of organized religion were compelled to make adjustments as increasing civilization augmented human knowledge.

Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to grow graver all the time.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

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 these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A. D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.

Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Despite the opposition of some of their number, the Israelites assemble and send away their foreign wives and children.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

Despite their trials, God will not desert his people.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite its age, it is still considered an excellent commentary on simple but high quality code.

Despite the name, most smartjacks are much more than a simple telephone jack.

Despite being morphologically simple, lacking a skeleton and usually being sessile, cnidarians prey on fish and crustaceans.

Despite its simple narrative style, it was received well in the literary world.

Despite its decoration, the exterior is relatively simple and austere, devoid of flying buttresses or major sculpture and giving little hint of the richness within.

Despite this fact, it was widely used by script kiddies because of its simple GUI and ease of installation.

Despite this, the basic operating principles of a microscope are quite simple.

Despite the simplification they can bring to the electronics of an HVDC valve, light triggered thyristors may still require some simple monitoring electronics and have the disadvantage of being available from only very few manufacturers.

Despite such a simple configuration, one operandum and one feeder, it is possible to investigate many psychological phenomena.

Despite attempts to present himself as a " simple man " and, by default, unable to appreciate post-classical art, Lowry seems to have been aware of major trends in 20th century art.

Despite this, Cisneros personally still maintained a simple life ; although a message from Rome required him to live in a style befitting his rank, the outward pomp only concealed his private asceticism.

Despite her favored state, however, she only wore simple dresses rather than elaborate designs, as a means of savings.

Despite the fact that most engaged in sexual relations with their patrons, hetaerae were not simple prostitutes.

Despite their simple appearance, they are a sister subphylum to the Vertebrata.

Despite the simple appearance of the equations they are, in fact, quite complicated.

Despite substantial evidence to suggest that he was an operative of the Obsidian Order, Garak on several occasions denies having ever been involved with the group, claiming he is just " plain, simple Garak, a tailor on the Promenade " and that his difficulties with the Cardassian government stem from tax evasion.

Despite attempts by his friends and family to get him to move on to a more respectable position for his age, such as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) or a Circuit Judge ( referred to as Queer Customers and Circus Judges by Rumpole ), he only enjoys the simple pleasure of defending his clients ( who are often legal aid cases ) at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court: " the honour of being an Old Bailey Hack ," as he describes his work.

Despite their nearly insatiable hunger, Taxxons have enough self-control to do simple tasks, and can fire Dracon beams with their pincers.

Despite its seemingly simple nervous system, however, Aplysia californica is capable of a variety of non-associative and associative learning tasks, including sensitization, habituation, and classical and operant conditioning.

Despite being a good friend, Carl can be very self-centered and workaholic at times – in The Devil Wears Nada, Carl becomes the new supervisor of Homer's sector ( for being the most competent of them ), and starts to abuse his position by forcing Homer to become his assistant, making him do even the mostly simple and unnecessary tasks ( much to Homer's dismay ).

Despite its use of simple chords, including a second theme constructed almost entirely out of tonic and dominant notes and chords, it is full of complex thematic transformations.

Despite some superficial similarities in presentation, excited delirium is a distinct ( and more serious ) condition from simple stimulant psychosis.