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

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

Despite this legal status, the ELDR party has yet to achieve significant grassroots involvement and retains much of the character of a mere confederation of national political parties.

Despite the downturn, Hong Kong ’ s economic strengths, including a sound banking system, virtually no public debt, a strong legal system, ample foreign exchange reserves, rigorous anti-corruption measures and close ties with the mainland China, enable it to quickly respond to changing circumstances.

Despite its decline in facial popularity, realists continue to influence a wide spectrum of jurisprudential schools today, including critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, sociology of law and law and economics.

Despite the coin's legal tender status, economic sanctions against South Africa for its policy of apartheid made the Krugerrand an illegal import in many Western countries during the 1970s and 1980s.

Despite such criticisms of Marbury v. Madison, judicial review has been accepted in the American legal community.

Despite its growing dominance in the constitutional hierarchy, the Premiership was given little formal recognition ; the legal fiction was maintained that the Sovereign still governed directly.

Despite this legal framework, Évolués still faced substantial discrimination in Africa and the Metropole alike.

Despite some significant political differences between them, all of these administrations share similar legal structures, much of which are predicated on the judicial systems of previous Somali administrations.

Despite the relative ease of executive agreements, the President still often chooses to pursue the formal treaty process over an executive agreement in order to gain congressional support on matters that require the Congress to pass implementing legislation or appropriate funds, and those agreements that impose long-term, complex legal obligations on the U. S.

Despite the seniority and added prestige, the Chief Justice's vote carries the same legal weight as each of the other eight justices.

Despite the deep-seated norm against legal proceedings, litigation in the Chinese courts has increased dramatically, especially in recent years.

Despite the newly elevated role of courts in Chinese society, there still remains some consensus about defects in China ’ s legal system in regards to progressing towards the rule of law.

Despite the legal disputes surrounding this invention, it is unquestionable that Campbell was the first to actually construct a telephone circuit using loading coils.

Despite the legal usage of the Old Ruthenian language ( the predecessor of both modern Belarusian and Ukrainian languages ) which was used as a chancellery language in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the literature was mostly non-existent, outside of several chronicles.

Despite the legal and political complexities, the territory historically occupied by the Tlingit can be reasonably designated as their modern homeland, and Tlingit people today envision the land from around Yakutat south through the Alaskan Panhandle and including the lakes in the Canadian interior as being Lingít Aaní, the Land of the Tlingit.

Despite Cicero's legal defence ( Pro Milone ) he is found guilty and exiled in Massilia ( modern Marseille ).

Despite a protracted legal battle with Random House in 1996, she has since published many books: both fictional, non-fictional and autobiographical.

Despite the legal restriction among countries party to the international treaty, coca chewing and drinking of coca tea is carried out daily by millions of people in the Andes as well as considered sacred within indigenous cultures.

Despite the above legal wrangling, Archie Comics never took any action against Kurtzman or Elder for their 1954 Mad magazine story " Starchie ".

Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence in many jurisdictions, according to press reports collecting evidence of adultery or other " bad behaviour " by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake, as the stakes being fought over now are child custody, alimony, or marital property disputes.

Despite some off-season legal issues, the Oilers were again the top team in the NHL during the 1985 – 86 regular season, with 56 wins and 119 points.

Despite this, on September 25, the SEC announced that Texas A & M was being accepted unconditionally — regardless of legal threats.

Despite being personally opposed to early marriage, Tilak opposed the 1891 Age of Consent bill, seeing it as interference with Hinduism and a dangerous precedent.

Despite the precedent set by some of his predecessors, Johnson never addressed the Senate on the occasion of a tie-breaking vote ; he did once explain his vote via an article in the Kentucky Gazette.

Despite Marlborough's refutations ( claiming ancient precedent for the first allegation, and, for the second, producing a warrant signed by the Queen in 1702 authorising him to make the deductions in lieu of secret-service money for the war ), the findings were enough for Harley to persuade the Queen to release her Captain-General.

Despite being placed in a position to shape the office of the presidency via precedent, Hyde by and large opted for a quiet, conservative interpretation of the office.

Despite the disappointing conclusion of the 1993 Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel, and even though the 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace has not fully normalized relations with Israel, both of these significant developments had little chance of occurring without the precedent set by Camp David.

Despite losing Internacional's most important match ever, it set a precedent of great moments to come in this decade, as the team went on to win the Campeonato Gaúcho four years in a row starting in 1981.

# Despite the legal precedent set by ex parte Quirin, " the president lacked inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to detain American citizens on American soil outside a zone of combat.

Despite their attempts to present a clear stance on school-sponsored religious activity, Engel, Abington, and the cases for which these serve as precedent are cited by some proponents of school prayer as evidence of a contradiction between the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.

Despite its status as a civil code, legal precedent does play a limited role ; the way the courts construe and interpret the regulations of the code has changed in many ways, and continues to evolve and develop, due particularly to the high degree of abstraction throughout.

Despite this, the non-Portuguese media still uses Sporting Lisbon ( or equivalent ) due to precedent and to avoid confusion with other clubs such as Sporting Clube de Braga, Sporting Clube da Covilhã, Sporting Clube Farense and Sporting de Gijón, instead of using a more accurate name like Sporting Portugal.

Despite Gardner claiming PAS was generally accepted by the scholarly community and passed the Frye test in two states, a 2006 analysis of court cases involving PAS and cited by Gardner concluded that these decisions did not set legal precedent, that PAS is viewed negatively in most legal scholarship, and that Gardner's writings do not support the existence of PAS.

Despite her return, Tessa's death influenced the rest of the series, making it more pessimistic, and creating a significant precedent ; Tessa was the first main character of the series to die.

Despite the therapeutic effectiveness and proven success of CBT, treatment availability is significantly limited by a lack of trained clinicians, poor geographical distribution of knowledgeable professionals, and expense.

Despite the availability of effective treatment and advances in medical care, approximately three to five percent of patients who become ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever die from the infection.

Despite the availability of syringe access programs, many individuals continue to share and use dirty or infected needles in most American cities.

Despite a general consensus, codified in the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, that emergency care must be provided even to the indigent, it is not widely accepted in the United States that the availability of broader health care should be considered a right and paid for by public funds.

Despite the music's limited commercial availability, house records sold in the tens of thousands, and the music was further popularized via radio station 102. 7 WBMX-FM, where Program Director Lee Michaels gave airtime to the station's resident DJ team, the Hot Mix 5 ( Ralph Rosario, Mickey " Mixin " Oliver, Scott " Smokin " Silz, Kenny " Jammin " Jason, and Farley " Jackmaster " Funk ).

Despite widespread availability of contraceptives, almost half of pregnancies were unintended circa 2005.

Despite the availability of highly effective contraceptives, about half of US pregnancies are unintended.

Despite the wide use of OpenPGP compliant systems and easy availability of on-line multiple key servers, it is possible in practice to be unable to readily find someone ( or several people ) to endorse a new certificate ( e. g., by comparing physical identification to key owner information and then digitally signing the new certificate ).

Despite relatively lackluster performance ( Jane's describes it as having " an indifferent charge to weight ratio ", " unsophisticated aerodynamic shape ", " erratic fragmentation ") compared to more modern high explosive rounds, it continues to be used by many countries, in particular in training exercises because of its low cost, high availability and smaller danger area than more modern designs.

Despite their well-established efficacy, indications for monoamine oxidase inhibitors are currently very limited, due to their significant potential for adverse effects, many interactions, and the availability of newer and safer ( although not necessarily more efficacious ) antidepressants.

Despite the appearance of more advanced ignition systems such as that of the wheellock and the snaphance, the low cost of production, simplicity, and high availability of the matchlock kept it in use in European armies until about 1720.

Despite the availability of AMAX receivers from companies like Sony, General Electric, Denon, and AMAX-certified car radios from the domestic and Japanese automakers, most electronics manufacturers did not wish to implement the more costly AMAX tuner ( radio ) design in their radios, so most AM radios today remain in mono with limited fidelity.

* Despite the sparse and diminishing availability of the brand, this is the only soda currently recommended by Atkins for low-carb dieters because it does not use sugar or aspartame.

Despite the V8 model winning Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 1973, sales of the P76 were adversely affected by a variety of issues: component manufacturers ' strikes limiting parts availability, production problems at Leyland Australia's plant in Zetland all restricted supply of the car ; the release of P76 coincided with the first Oil Crisis, when fuel prices increased dramatically.

Despite the manga's Japan-only availability, at least one writer has recommended Dai-Tokyo to people traveling to Japan as a good guide on how to enjoy their stay without spending too much.

Despite the personalized nature of choppers, and the wide availability of alternative designs, chopper builders have overwhelmingly chosen fat rear tires, a rigid-looking frame ( even for a softail ), and an original or replica air-cooled, pushrod v-twin engine.

Despite the increasingly availability of effectual depression treatment, the level of unmet need for treatment remains high.

Despite these excellent transit links and the availability of land, industrial development was still slow to take root.

Despite the availability of steam, trawling under sail continued to be economically efficient, and sailing trawlers continued to be built until the middle of the 1920s.

Despite the easy availability of miniature key loggers, tamper-evident design is not often used in personal computers.

Despite the availability of such a distribution, the Xbox 360 still isn't considered a popular platform for homebrew development, given the dependence of the exploit on the DVD-ROM being able to load a burnt DVD game, a modified version of the game King Kong, and two older kernel revisions of the console itself.

Despite availability of downloading in multiple formats, being less restrictive on video uploads, and Google being tremendously well-known, Google Videos had only a minor share from the online video market, amassing around 2, 500, 000 videos uploaded.

Despite the availability of almost the same squad, Oxford did not win a single match during 1885.

" Despite the 7 year interruption in the availability of Bibles, and over a year without any competition from imports, his Bible was a commercial failure and he ended up losing over £ 3, 000 on the 10, 000 Bibles he printed.