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Despite these achievements, the influence of Aristotle's errors is considered by some to have held back science considerably.

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

Despite these facts, most mathematicians accept the axiom of choice as a valid principle for proving new results in mathematics.

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

Despite these troubles Andronikos III secured the extension of Byzantine control over Thessaly in 1333 and Epirus in 1337, by taking advantage of succession crises in these principalities.

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 the failure of Philip's Bastarnae strategy, the suspicion aroused by these events in the Roman Senate, which had been warned by the Dardani of the Bastarnae invasion, ensured the demise of Macedonia as an independent state.

Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite these achievements, Attlee's government failed to introduce the comprehensive education for which many socialists had hoped ( as a means of making the educational system less meritoric ).

Despite these problems, one of the main achievements of Attlee's government was the maintenance of near full employment.

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 rejecting these terms, Constantius still tried to avert war with the Sassanid Empire by sending two embassies to Shapur II.

Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.

Despite the differences between comparative law and these other legal fields, comparative law helps inform all of these areas of normativity.

Despite the lack of complexity, there does seem to be forethought and skill in making these tools and should be considered such.

Despite the recession of the late 1950s, the company sold $ 94, 000 worth of these modules during 1958 alone, turning a profit at the end of its first year.

Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.

Despite these uncertainties, there is agreement that destruction of rainforests remains a significant environmental problem.

Despite these advances in Cognitive psychology, there is still much to be discovered in terms of the operating mechanisms of declarative memory.

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 these grand designs Domitian was determined to govern the Empire conscientiously and scrupulously.

Despite the arguments by the Giants, the league upheld O ' Day's decision and ordered the game replayed at the end of the season, if necessary.

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Despite the arguments " in favor of an adaptive immune response in s-IBM, a purely autoimmune hypothesis for s-IBM is untenable because of the disease's resistance to most immunotherapy.

Despite theoretical arguments against the existence of faster-than-light particles, experiments have been conducted to search for them.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.

Despite the original mix-up, monkey-and-typewriter arguments are now common in arguments over evolution.

Despite having arguments with Gandhi, Patel respected his instincts and leadership.

Despite the central arguments of Greenberg, Adorno and others, the term " avant-garde " has been co-opted and misapplied by various sectors of the mainstream culture industry since the 1960s, chiefly as a marketing tool to publicise popular music and commercial cinema.

Despite such arguments, Richelieu remains an honoured personality in France, particularly for his stubborn refusal to let courtly intrigues and foreign interests dominate the government.

His arguments against the doctrine of revolutionary unions known as anarcho-syndicalism were later developed in a series of articles, where he wrote “ I am against syndicalism, both as a doctrine and a practice, because it strikes me as a hybrid creature .” Despite their drawbacks, he advocated activity in the trade unions, both because they were necessary for the organization and self-defense of workers under a capitalist state regime, and as a way of reaching broader masses.

Despite these arguments, advocates of “ financial modernization ” predicted consumers and businesses would enjoy cost savings and greater convenience in receiving financial services from integrated “ financial services firms .”

Despite arguments about the actual population size, Las Casas's accounts of widespread slaughter are not widely disputed.

Despite the secrecy rule, details of the votes and the arguments in Council are sometimes leaked to the press, resulting in ( generally fruitless ) investigations and criminal prosecutions of the leaking staff member.

Despite this uneven relationship, Aberhart was not all together closed-minded, and would entertain — and sometimes even be convinced by — arguments from his staff.

Despite the arguments and his differences with Rothermere, Trenchard was able to put in place planning for the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

Despite arguments defending the traditional direct-impingement system, the Enhanced M4 uses an articulating link piston operating system.

Despite the difficulties, most theories of syntax and grammar distinguish on the one hand between arguments and adjuncts and on the other hand between optional arguments and adjuncts, and they grant a central position to these divisions in the overarching theory.

Despite her almost exclusive intercourse with Christians and her utter lack of prejudice, her purpose, apparently, was to equip English Jewesses with arguments against conversionists.

Despite Hubmaier's arguments, the council sided with the native Zwingli and ruled in Zwingli's favor.

Despite being friends, Patchy and Potty usually get into arguments sometimes.

Despite these arguments, this theory was rejected by later scholars such as Finnur Jónsson, Fredrick Sander, and Felix Niedner, in favor of identifying Hárbarð with Odin, based, among other things, on Odin's statement in Grimnismál 47 that Hárbarð is one of his by-names.