Despite the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.

Despite Roland's efforts, their new " 303 clone " was an entirely new product that had almost nothing to do with the original TB-303, with the exception of a few bass samples and the familiar interface design.

Despite its prominence in the industry, the grape is a relatively new variety, the product of a chance crossing between Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc during the 17th century in southwestern France.

Despite its product being called the " best $ 1500 " car by a Texas car dealer, the company ceased production of its own model in 1915.

Despite these changes retailers still face complicated and confusing trading laws, which stipulate trading hours based on size and product offer.

Despite its size and global presence BASF has received relatively little public attention since abandoning its consumer product lines in the 90s.

Despite the fact that the initial WebTV sales had been modest, Mundie expressed that Microsoft was impressed with WebTV and saw significant potential both in WebTV's product offering and in applying the technology to other Microsoft consumer and video product offerings.

Despite the innovative packaging, added features and superior performance, this $ 3, 995 product was stillborn and never had a chance to succeed due to the failure of Otrona shortly after its release.

Despite demand from high-end users for more PCI slots in a G3 powered computer, Apple decided not to develop the prototype ( dubbed " Power Express ") into a shipping product, sometimes nicknamed the " Molar Mac " due to its resemlance to a tooth, that was made available only to educational markets.

Despite the time needed to test such a new product, it will pay off in the future for the sales department.

Despite the promise of a deathmatch mode for multiplayer, it was cut from the final product.

Despite weekly or monthly serialized releases in the country of origin, translated editions often take longer to release due to the necessity of translating and repackaging the product before release.

Despite the similarity in name, the e-Sword Bible software program is not a product of The SWORD Project, nor is it built upon The SWORD Project API.

Despite his early career success, his legacy was a sprawling and unprofitable product range, weak distribution and feeble management-ills which took their toll on BL.

Despite being the first multiuser database on any PC platform, the first object-based, visual programming tool, and, perhaps, the first relational database on a PC platform, Helix's marketing and ownership problems led it to a life as a niche product on an OS with a small market share.

Despite this, Henslow pressed on with ideas about field experiments which would try out various fertilisers and measure the resulting product.

Despite the Chicken Whopper's initial success, just over a year after the Chicken Whopper's introduction enthusiasm for the product was waning ; Burger King's largest franchisee, Carrols Corporation, was complaining that the product line was a failure, describing the sandwich as a pedestrian product with a great name.

Despite numerous requests from the stockholders of the Keely Motor Company, which had been established to produce a practicable motor based on his work, he consistently refused to reveal to them the principles on which his motor operated, and also repeatedly refused demands to produce a marketable product by claiming that he needed to perform more experiments.

Despite noting their dated and " unfulfilling " sound, he did call it an " exemplary product ".

Despite advertising being illegal (" ad " is, in fact, a dirty word ), corporations control consumers through the celebrities they set up, and product placement.

Despite gaining market share thru NetScreen, Juniper experienced difficulties penetrating the Enterprise routing segment-partially due to well-entrenched positions of Cisco Systems and partially due to the time it took Juniper to assemble a consistent product lineup.

Despite losing market share in recent years to sucralose, the NutraSweet Company states that its product is used in more than 5, 000 products and consumed by some 250 million people worldwide.

Despite their placement in the order Carnivora, they are omnivorous, or, in the case of the Palm Civets, almost entirely herbivorous.

Despite variations in wording and placement of the various fair trial rights, international human rights instrument define the right to a fair trial in broadly the same terms.

Despite this, he scored consistently through good placement and powerful drives generated by his strong forearms.

Despite these claims, Talkback Thames has denied any suggestion of product placement.

Despite widespread practice by bowhunters and their usual pride in their personal accuracy, " 71 % to 82 % of all shots taken missed " and " shot placement is, for all practical purposes, random ".

Despite being on the special election called by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the measure was not related to the Schwarzenegger initiatives, nor was the placement on the November ballot intended by proponents.

Despite these obstacles, the film's war footage was stunning and James Coburn, in the lead role of Rolf Steiner, gave one of the finest performances of his career.

" Despite Spielberg's support, DreamWorks and Mendes fought constantly over the schedule and budget — although the studio interfered little with the film's content.

Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($ 93 million at the North American Box Office ).

Despite the film's later reputation, some contemporary critics panned it.

Despite the film's kitschiness and melodrama, critics today still highly praise The Champ.

Despite the film's lack of home video release directly to consumers in the United States, audio from the film — both the musical soundtrack and dialogue — were made widely available to the public from the time of the film's debut up through the late 1970s.

Despite the film's success at the box office, Harry Warner remained concerned about the economic threat presented by the Edison Trust.

Despite the film's reception, Hawke's performance was favored by critics ; the Star Tribune noted that Hawke " plays a complex character persuasively ".

Despite the rejection, the film's producers arranged for Allied Artists to release the film without the Production Code seal, with the New York censors licensing the film

Despite involving many of Hong Kong's top stars, the film's profits had been modest, so Wong was not given the opportunity to follow it up, yet as he moved onto other films, he had always retained the dream of doing so.

Despite this film's relatively poor reception at the cinemas, his portrayal of a blind session violinist earned him a Filmfare Award.

* Despite the film's central DIY theme, the original calendar enjoyed sponsorship from British Parliamentarian Glenda Jackson.

Despite the fact that Smith is a practicing Catholic, as Kevin Smith confirmed in an interview on the film's DVD, several religious groups, especially the Catholic League, said the film was anti-Catholic and blasphemous, and organized protests, including one that took place at the November 12 premiere of the film at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Despite its triple platinum start, the soundtrack LP's sales bombed after the film's release.

Despite being a critical and commercial success, an attempt to re-release the film in 1936 was denied approval by the Production Code Office due to the film's " lewd " content.

Despite all of the detail put into the set, only segments of it are ever visible in the film, which later angered the film's producers since so much money was put into the set.

Despite the death of Florenz Ziegfeld during the film's production, Burke resumed filming shortly after his funeral.

Despite this film's failure, in 2009, a haunted house inspired by the climax of this film (" Chucky's Fun House ") was featured in Halloween Horror Nights and the film was nominated for two Saturn Awards.

Despite the film's strong earnings at the box office, critical response was generally mixed.

Despite the film's success, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics and won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay while Tom Cruise was nominated as Worst Actor and Roger Donaldson as Worst Director.

Despite being nominated for the " Palme d ' Or " award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, the film's consideration as candidate for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards was an occasion for considerable controversy.

Despite the money Don Juan was able to draw at the box office, it still could not match the expensive budget the brothers put into the film's production.

Despite that, the script was stolen over a year before the film was released, prompting many " pre-reviews " of the film on several Internet film sites and much fan speculation about plot details including the film's leaked final line, a truck driver exclaiming " Crazy fucking white people ".

Despite the film's financial disaster, critical response for Looney Tunes: Back in Action was mixed to positive, making it more critically successful than the previous Looney Tunes film Space Jam.