Despite progress since the Soviet era, the unemployment rate still hovers near 30 % and there remains a huge gulf between actual and potential Gross Domestic Product.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

Despite a huge amount of government sponsored publicity, especially during the Park era, it was not clear by the late 1980s that the Saemaul undong had achieved its objectives.

Despite this huge increase, no further breakdown is given by Singstat.

Despite that, like all agencies that deal with huge volumes of timely information, UP and later UPI had its share of remembered mistakes.

Despite his strong dislike of Wegener, Raeder agreed that it had been a huge mistake on the part of Germany not to have occupied Norway, the " Gate to the Atlantic " in 1914 as control of Norway would allowed Germany to escape the North Sea by breaking the British distant blockade.

Despite having valuable technology, CDC still suffered from huge losses in 1985 and 1986 while attempting to reorganize.

Despite its progress, there are still many fundamental problems faced by this field as " unlike medicine, evaluation is not a discipline that has been developed by practicing professionals over thousands of years, so we are not yet at the stage where we have huge encyclopaedias that will walk us through any evaluation step-by-step ", or provide a clear definition of what evaluation entails ( Davidson, 2005 ).

Despite huge investments by their parent companies, neither Viewtron nor Gateway lasted into the second half of the decade.

Despite it being named after an outlaw named Cullen Baker, it is a huge family event and has a parade, craft / food booths, a pageant, a tug-of-war competition, bouncy houses, a street dance, and a rodeo.

Despite the boost to the local economy, Salt Lake and the surrounding communities did not appreciate the huge military presence and tried to limit soldiers to the area around the base.

Despite the huge amount of buildings and artists involved with the BAT ( over 50, 000 buildings have been uploaded to the SimCity3000Unlimited web site at EA. com ), some feel that it has not gained the cult-status the SCURK has.

Despite Lane's resignation, Friday Night Football proved a huge success for Channel Nine, in no small part due to the presence of, in his own words, " the biggest name on the Nine Network ", McGuire himself.

Despite being a puppet show, it has, like the real-life Kukla, Fran and Ollie TV show, a huge audience of all ages.

Despite the early criticisms from the media, Passion Tour achieved huge success.

Despite a police investigation and huge press interest, Lucan has not been found and is presumed dead.

Despite the " huge potential upside ," Lebanon and the region also face a danger, he said.

Despite the achievements, the Shock were viewed as huge underdogs to the two time defending champion Los Angeles Sparks, who were looking for a three-peat.

Despite being a huge box office success, it is the lowest grossing film in the series, making roughly two million less than American Reunion.

Despite the huge migrations during and after Partition, India is still home to the third largest Muslim population in the world ( after Indonesia and Pakistan ).

Despite the criticism, Hewitt managed to balance the books of the NHS, which had previously been in huge debt.

Despite pouring rain, a huge public rally was held at Sydney's Circular Quay, protesting against the continuance of transportation to New South Wales, and the agitation was kept up until success was achieved in 1852, when an end was put to the practice by the British Government.

Despite local authorities initial attempt to prevent it, many locals turned out with fish and hand-feed the birds, apparently allowing the huge pelicans to survive the winter.

Despite his huge success he has yet to be inducted into either The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame or Country Music Hall of Fame.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

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 this, the show was well received by critics.

Despite only five appearances throughout the entire show, Vicious is arguably the series ' main antagonist, or at any rate the only recurring one.

Despite this show of force, far more free-soilers than pro-slavery settlers migrated to Kansas.

Despite the deep erosion of the valleys, the surrounding uplands show little evidence of glaciation, suggesting that the ice was thin, or at least unable to cause much erosion at these higher altitudes.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite their different backgrounds they shared a common interest in experiment and invention, and their activities would show Darwin's theoretical understanding and Boulton's practical experience to be complementary.

Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Despite decent acclaim and even some respectable ratings, almost every show was canceled quickly, usually within the first season.

Despite this, Huxley strongly supported Darwin on evolution ; though he called for experiments to show whether natural selection could form new species, and questioned if Darwin's gradualism was sufficient without sudden leaps to cause speciation.

Despite concerns raised about its possible contribution to global warming, comparisons between urban and rural areas show that the urban heat island effects have little influence on global mean temperature trends.

Despite a large fan campaign, UPN declined to pick up the show.

Despite her world famous role, Smith is rarely recognized in public, which she does not mind, saying " it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall ; people never recognise me solely from my voice.

Despite the extensive intervention of central banks, including partial and total nationalization of major European banks, the crisis of sovereign debt became particularly acute, first in Iceland, though as events of the early 2010s would show, it was not an isolated European example.

Despite her reservations, Christine complied with the band's touring schedule, and then performed for the group's 1998 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the Grammy Awards show, and the BRIT Awards in the UK.

Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams thought theatre, film and television were superior forms of entertainment.

Despite perceived differences between Eastern and Western philosophy, some of Heidegger's later work, particularly " A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer ", does show an interest in initiating such a dialogue.

" Despite Whedon's intentions of not making Buffy about overcoming issues, he said Willow's exploration of her sexuality " turned out to be one of the most important things we've done on the show ".

Despite differences in the content, the format is usually the same: first the show introduces the subjects in their current, less-than-ideal environment.

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.