Despite the long recognition of its distinction from younger Ordovician rocks and older Precambrian rocks, it was not until 1994 that this time period was internationally ratified.

Despite its status as part of an occupied city, East Berlin was claimed as the capital of East Germany, as the Soviets did not honor the distinction of a free city for their sector.

Despite a number of significant differences, many Western fans do not make a distinction between shōnen manga and seinen manga.

Despite the lack of distinction, this period of his life gave him a good working knowledge of continental war methods and strategies, even if most of his own experience was limited to defensive operations.

Despite the Agency's reference to Ulster Scots as " a language ", this eliding of the distinction between Ulster Scots as a linguistic form, and " Ulster Scots culture " broadly referring to cultural forms associated with the Scottish-descended population, continued thereafter.

Despite these changes, the binary system with a distinction between research-oriented education and professional higher education remains in use.

Despite class differences between freeborn and freedmen, the Corps served with distinction at the Battle of Port Hudson.

Despite their lackluster recording career, The Charlatans hold the distinction of being the first of the underground San Francisco bands of the 1960s and as such, their importance is felt by the dozens of successful Bay Area bands that emerged later in the decade, and by all the bands that those groups influenced.

Despite this low level of differentiation between them, tree reconstruction and principle component analyses allowed a distinction between Balkan – Carpathian ( Romanians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Macedonians and Gagauzes ) and Balkan Mediterranean ( Greeks, Albanians, Turks ) population groups.

Despite this distinction, Addisonian crises can happen in all forms of adrenal insufficiency.

Despite the fact that all of them were considered Spanish, and that there was no legal distinction between Criollos and Peninsulares, most Criollos thought that Peninsulares had undue weight in political conflicts and expected a higher intervention in them.

Despite this distinction, Milnrow did not increase much further in size or population until the dawn of the woollen trade in the Late Middle Ages.

Despite being only an enlisted man and without distinction in civilian life, the King has become a major power in the enclosed society of the P. O. W.

Despite his long impressive career, Gartner never won the Stanley Cup or played in the Cup Finals, never won an NHL award, and was never named to the postseason All-Star Team, being one of the few Hockey Hall of Fame inductees to hold this distinction.

Despite the unification, a distinction between the three systems survives in the service labels: IRT lines ( now referred to as A Division ) have numbers and BMT / IND ( now collectively B Division ) lines use letters.

Despite its distinction as a strategic stronghold during the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic prosperity came during the Early Modern period, as the port developed into a fishing town.

Despite the name, the console used cartridges, not cassettes, and it has the distinction of being the first successful programmable console video game system to be made in Japan.

Prior to his resignation, in 1991, Daim ’ s contribution was succinctly summed up as thus: “ Despite having much of his tenure clouded in controversy, the outgoing Finance Minister has nonetheless earned the reputation as one of the country ’ s ablest economic architects, having steered Malaysia through recession into four straight years of high growth .” In another article, “ Daim exits office having earned the distinction of being a hard – driving technocrat, who resisted pressure by rival ministers who wanted to alter fiscal policy for political expediency ….”

( Despite its name, the " voiceless labial-velar fricative " is actually a voiceless approximant ; the name is a historical remnant from before the distinction was made.

Despite not having a commune named after it, Capellen lends its name to the canton of Capellen, and is the only town in Luxembourg to bear the latter distinction but not the former.

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 the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.

Despite the legal status of the Dublin Region, the term " County Dublin " is still in common usage.

Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.

Despite making a number of mockumentaries, Guest dislikes the term.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Despite efforts and considerations of expanding his political domain, Kemp never held a fundraiser outside of his suburban Western New York district until well into his eighth term in Congress.

Despite Roe's somewhat casual use of the term ' atheist ', he could not quite put his finger on Jahangir's real beliefs.

Despite the regular holding of relatively free and fair elections to the National Assembly, Kuwait is not a democracy by the usual definition of the term because the prime minister is not responsible to parliament.

Despite the European origin of the liberal arts college, the term liberal arts college usually denotes liberal arts colleges in the United States.

" Despite the LDS Church's position, the term Mormon is widely used by journalists and non-journalists to refer to adherents of Mormon fundamentalism.

Despite Gandhi's opposition, Bose won a second term as Congress President, against Gandhi's nominee, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya ; but left the Congress when the All-India leaders resigned en masse in protest of his abandonment of the principles introduced by Gandhi.

Despite various contradictions, the term, dimension is sometimes interchangeable with universe or reality.

Despite the early proposals for replacing the paraphyletic Reptilia for a monophyletic Sauropsida, that term was never adopted widely or, when it was, applied consistently.

Despite the British colonialists ' pejorative application of the term, Jamaican youth appropriated it as an ingroup designation.

Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.

Despite economic growth during Lacalle's term, adjustment and privatization efforts provoked political opposition, and some reforms were overturned by referendum.

Despite its origin as a term for man-wolf transformations only, lycanthropy is used in this sense for animals of any type.

Despite this, the Labour government remained in power for the full five year term.

Despite this, publications such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, use this term to refer to current evolutionary theory.

Despite the use of French words in the phrase nom de plume, the term did not originate in France.

Despite its name the Act has fairly little to do with " trusts " in the ordinary sense of the term.

Despite the metaphysical basis for the term, academics in science, aesthetics, heuristics, psychology, and gender-based sociological studies have advanced their causes under the banner of Essentialism.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.