Despite its toxicity, a considerable fraction of petroleum oil entering marine systems is eliminated by the hydrocarbon-degrading activities of microbial communities, in particular by a remarkable recently discovered group of specialists, the so-called hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria ( HCCB ).

Despite the group ’ s eventual break up, one of its members, Seido Kobayashi, went on to form the group Oedo Sukeroku Daiko, which is credited for being the very first professional Taiko group.

Despite this, many of the group, including Henry Treece, modelled their work on Thomas.

Despite this generality, the theory of group actions contains wide-reaching theorems, such as the orbit stabilizer theorem, which can be used to prove deep results in several fields.

Despite warnings from local authorities, the group continued to meet privately and attract even more followers.

Despite this setback, within ten days he had caught up with his group and continued on to Khambhat in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Despite this, he sent a three-page letter to US President Barack Obama imploring him to " annul a wrong and mistaken action " and stop striking Libyan targets, repeatedly referring to him as " our son " and blaming the uprising on the terrorist group al Qaeda.

Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group.

Despite peace talks, a southern separatist group in the Casamance region has clashed sporadically with government forces since 1982.

Despite the fact that the group had not signed a contract with EMI, the single reached the UK Top 40 and began selling well.

Despite Orbison's death, the remaining group members recorded a second and final studio album, which they intentionally misnumbered Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Despite their victories, the small group of senators continued to lock up the senate to prevent any pro-war legislation from passing.

Despite the fact that this group was a minority, Russia and Austria, intent on maintaining their influence within Poland, recognised Augustus as king.

Despite New Zealand's immigration liberalisation in the 1980s, Britons are still the largest group of migrants to New Zealand, due in part to recent immigration law changes which privilege fluent speakers of English.

Despite these thoughtful moods, Psyche's next album would re-introduce the group as innovators in electronic dance.

Despite this, his recognition of group defences in the " Basic Assumption Group ", has been highly influential.

Despite Party efforts, initial charges levelled against Falun Gong failed to elicit widespread popular support for the suppression of the group.

Despite Stuckists in UK, The Prague Stuckists, founded in 2005 in Czech by Robert Janás, is a flourishing Stuckist group.

Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages that summer, Shearer was soon subject to a British transfer record-breaking £ 3. 3million bid from Blackburn Rovers.

Despite very few cultural differences from the Baloch, the Brahui are still regarded as a separate group on account of language difference.

Despite Picard's effort to force her to do her duty, in the end, she betrays Starfleet and joins the rebel group.

Despite investment in the team including Tore Andre Flo for a club record £ 12 million, European success beyond the Champions league group stages again proved elusive.

" Despite the fact that the group had neither performed outside the Bay Area nor appeared on TV, the album garnered considerable attention in the USA and sold well enough to earn a gold record award.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.

Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

Despite the warning, there was a unanimous vote to enter a candidate, according to Republicans who attended.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite his lack of formal qualifications, Ampère was appointed a professor of mathematics at the school in 1809.

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

Despite Frankish advances in the years that followed, Alaric was not afraid to take the military initiative when it presented itself.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.