Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite dispersal and elaborate camouflage, a lack of antiaircraft artillery and poor warning / communication systems resulted in the loss of 65 FEAF aircraft on the ground alone.

Despite requesting a quiet funeral without pomp and ceremony, the event was elaborate and attended by the Prince of Moldovia.

Despite having an elaborate military, South Vietnam was too corrupt and too lacking in self confidence to effectively resist the invasion by North Vietnam, and Saigon fell to the North in 1975, thus ending the war.

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

Despite his elaborate justifications for his act, he has, in fact, committed murder, and he expects God to punish him-or, at least, to take notice.

Despite their often elaborate design, the vestments are generally intended to focus attention on God, and the office of the person wearing them, rather than on the person himself.

Despite more elaborate credits and yet another title — now simply, Walt Disney — the format remained unchanged.

Despite its relatively short life, Spy was among the most widely acclaimed and discussed of American magazines of its time, chiefly for its detached and ironic tone, its use of quasi-scientific charts and tables to convey information, and its elaborate, classically influenced typography and layout.

Despite an elaborate plan many things go awry and the gang members can scarcely escape.

Despite his " somewhat obsessive desire to be first ", and his limited formal scientific training, he has been acknowledged as a pioneer in Antarctic work and as a forerunner for later, more elaborate expeditions.

Despite the elaborate set-up and tireless hours, Kim said he could not get enough of the Matrix experience.

Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion ( i. e. the eventual emergence of cloning as a replacement for the sexual reproduction of the human race ), the narrative focuses almost exclusively on the bleak and unrewarding day-to-day lives of the protagonists ; two half-brothers who barely know each other.

Despite the general terms of the definition, Colani's Hoabinhian is an elaborate typology as indicated by the 82 artefacts from Sao Dong that Colani classified into 28 types ( Matthews 1966 ).

Despite originally only appearing in one episode, the character became very popular and, as a result, appeared in a third series episode, in which he used more elaborate methods to capture men and women alike, and imprison them inside the animals in his circus.

Despite its cleverness and some positive critical response, many fans felt alienated by the shows ; new material from the Pop album didn't go down as well as U2 might have hoped and too many people just didn't seem to get the joke and took the elaborate effects on face value.

Despite relatively low numbers, in their many thousands of years of existence the cyborgs build several elaborate facilities which serve as starting points for missions, and gathering points for new recruits.

Despite these elaborate protective measures, Petrie found that none of the trapdoors had been slid into place and the wooden doors were open.

Despite being rare and expensive, thulium has a few applications.

Despite its expensive budget, Noah's Ark was profitable.

Despite their less-than-perfect conditions, the buildings remain highly sought after and most expensive in the city's property market.

Despite being highly popular and sporting a successful design, the new ships had also been very expensive.

Despite its innovative design, critics complained that it was too expensive.

Despite sales figures, the quantity of unsold merchandise, coupled with the expensive movie license and the large amount of returns, made E. T.

Despite the area's rich ore deposits, investment in mining in the Neihart region remained low because it was too expensive to get ore out.

Despite the expense, refined sugar did appear much more often in published recipes of the time than honey, suggesting that it was not considered prohibitively expensive.

" Despite good notices, the play was not a financial success, as the demands of the large-scale production made it expensive.

Despite the increase in deployment of IVR technology in the 1970s to automate tasks in call centers, the technology was still complex and expensive.

Despite being more expensive than the Astra H, the Astra I / J has been a strong sales success in the UK, where it was the best selling car in June 2010 with well over 10, 000 sales-outselling its crucial rival the Ford Focus by nearly 50 %.

Despite the difficulties in cocking and firing the weapon, it did have several advantages ; its barrel did not have to be replaced or require high-grade materials that were expensive to produce, there was little muzzle blast that could give the user's position away, and the size of the barrel meant it could accommodate relatively large calibre munitions.

Despite being home to a large student population as well as being one of the most expensive German cities to live in, Munich stands out as being one of the few German cities which currently does not offer a semester transportation pass ( generally known as a Semesterticket ) to students.

Despite being cheaper and simpler than the Voyager Mars program ( using the same Mariner 8 / 9 design for the orbiter, but with an automobile-sized lander with a very expensive microbiology lab ), the Viking 1 and Viking 2 probes were launched to Mars on separate Titan IIIE / Centaur rockets in 1975 and reached Mars in 1976.

Despite their modest income, Mary Adelaide had expensive tastes and lived an extravagant life of parties, expensive food and clothes, and holidays abroad.

Despite community-wide efforts in structural genomics, the output of experimentally determined protein structures — typically by time-consuming and relatively expensive X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy — is lagging far behind the output of protein sequences.

Despite this, distribution costs of expansive food trade must also be factored in ; with increasing gas prices, it becomes more expensive to ship food from outside sources.

Despite having some of the country's most expensive homes, most of the dwellings are on small lots.

Despite Avro Canada's success in producing the CF-100, Canada's first jet fighter for the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ), aircraft development had proven to be a time-consuming and expensive process.

Despite the expensive work undertaken by Edward II, a survey of 1335 recorded that many of the castle's buildings were in a ruinous state, and the south wall of the Roman fort had been damaged by the sea.

Despite their name, not all linear induction motors produce linear motion, some linear induction motors are employed for generating rotations of large diameters where the use of a continuous primary would be very expensive.

Despite being expensive, these coaches were very successful in the Spanish market and competed well with Pegaso's own Monotrals and all other conventional chassis-body models.

Despite her appearance, Sing regularly visits her and even takes Mui to look at very expensive dresses at a high-end department store after hours.

Despite requiring more expensive transformers at each home, the overall system cost was manageable.