Despite Theremin being only in his second academic year, the deanery of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy recommended him to go to the Nikolayevska Military Engineering School in Petrograd ( renamed from Saint Petersburg ), which usually only accepted students in their fourth year.

Despite calls for a boycott by Gazan students, and a request to boycott from PACBI Atwood visited Israel and accepted the $ 1, 000, 000 Dan David Prize along with Indian author Amitav Ghosh at Tel Aviv University in May 2010.

Despite the relatively small number of Greek-letter organizations on campus, many students participate in Greek life at Ole Miss.

Despite this, he always found it difficult to relate to his students and to other humans generally.

The Mexican newspaper, The News, reported that “ a tribunal of three circuit court judges ruled that there was not enough proof to link Echeverria to the violent suppression of hundreds of protesting students on Oct. 2, 1968 .” Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

Despite this problems the university grew and attracted famous scholars and students.

Despite concerns and skepticism of other teachers, who feel that " you can't teach logarithms to illiterates ," Escalante nonetheless develops a program in which his students can eventually take AP Calculus by their senior year, which will give them college credit.

Despite the Public Instruction Act of 1865, which earmarked public funds for the education of African American students, Maryland county and city school boards refused to distribute the allocated money for the building and maintenance of African American schools.

Despite the small number of students in the town's high school ( 7-12 in a graduating class ), basketball, track and field, volleyball, cheerleading as well as American football are accessible to all students because of cooperation with a neighboring high school.

Despite its size, the college is relatively small in terms of student numbers, with about 400 students.

Despite the short-lived threat of closure to the University of Glasgow part of the campus in 2006, a campaign by students, academics and local supporters ensured that the University of Glasgow remained open in Dumfries.

Despite the outcome of Briggs and Brown, as of 2004 Summerton's schools remain effectively segregated, with nearly all white students now attending the private Clarendon Hall, leaving the public schools almost entirely African-American.

Despite Liszt's lack of financial support, Smetana was able to start a Piano Institute in late August 1848, with twelve students.

Despite the stress, lack of sleep, and inefficiency involved, students become trapped into a perpetual mode of procrastination.

Despite his difficulties, however, his students uniformly described him as a kind, patient and encouraging teacher.

Despite being French, he advised his students to avoid French music and concentrate on Beethoven and Mozart-music the public more likely wanted to hear.

Despite its satirical appearance, silat pulut actually enables students to learn moves and their applications without having to be taught set techniques.

Despite being fired, Howard attends the graduation ceremony to support his students.

Despite the aforementioned efforts to keep Gray's Anatomy readable by students, when the 39th edition was published, students were identified as a secondary market for the book, and companion publications such as Gray's Anatomy for Students, Gray's Atlas of Anatomy and Gray's Anatomy Review have also been published in recent years.

Despite its proximity to the University of Warwick on Coventry's southern outskirts, it has only a small student population of mostly postgraduate students, although many staff at the university choose to live in Kenilworth.

Despite a perceived weakening of his sovereigntist resolve in the last years of his government, he reaffirmed his belief to friends and, notably, to a crowd of Université Laval students months before his death, of the necessity of independence.

Despite the appropriation of " pow-wow ", taken from an Algonquian word for a gathering of medicine men, the collection is actually a very traditional collection of European magic spells, recipes, and folk remedies of a type familiar to students of folklore.

Despite focusing heavily on basketball, Wake Forest psychology department chairperson Deborah Best was quoted: " Tim [...] was one of my more intellectual students.

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 his outspokenness, Prince Konoe was destined to achieve the very heights of political life in Japan.

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

Despite the tactical victories won, they failed to achieve a decisive victory.

Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.

Despite successes in neutrino astronomy and neutrino astrophysics, Kamiokande did not achieve its primary goal, the detection of proton decay.

Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners was still unable to achieve star power.

Despite its odd plot and mixed critical reception, the film was a major box-office success, grossing nearly $ 100, 000, 000 in the U. S. alone, almost becoming the first non-Disney animated film to achieve that feat.

Despite awareness and the political power struggle existent in the play, Antony and Cleopatra both fail to achieve their goals by the play ’ s conclusion.

Despite being commonly known as sweep picking, both hands essentially perform an integral motion in unison to achieve the desired effect.

Despite some critical acclaim, and a successful UK tour supporting Babes in Toyland and Trumans Water, they failed to achieve mainstream popularity.

Despite having superiority of numbers, McClellan's attacks failed to achieve force concentration, allowing Lee to counter by shifting forces and moving interior lines to meet each challenge.

Despite the village's location in the northern state of Wisconsin, studies demonstrated that it was feasible for new buildings to achieve a majority of their heat from solar energy.

Despite the success of this experiment, it appears that selective breeding cannot always achieve domestication.

Despite their territorial gains following the Paris Peace Conference, the Greeks still hoped to achieve the Megali Idea and annex Constantinople and larger areas of Ottoman Asia Minor ; they therefore invaded Anatolia beyond Smyrna and sought to take Ankara, with the aim of destroying the Turkish resistance led by Mustafa Kemal ( later known as Atatürk ).

Despite efforts of international transplantation societies, it is not possible to access an accurate source on the number, rates and outcomes of all forms of transplantation globally ; the best that we can achieve is estimations.

" Despite Proposition 209, however, Berkeley Law was still able to achieve a diverse student body.

Despite these setbacks, Wolves overcame their seven game winless start to eventually achieve some commendable results, in particular a 1 – 0 win over Manchester United.

Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, by 1977 Marceline Jones admitted to the New York Times that, as early as age 18 when he watched his then idol Mao Zedong overthrow the Chinese government, Jim Jones realized that the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to mobilize people through religion.

Despite the presence of Calloway and much of his former team, the Clash failed to achieve the dominance achieved by the Blackhawks.

Despite the film appearance and three more single releases and one LP release, the group failed to achieve any chart success.

Despite some successes, these did not achieve any permanent results, nor did they force Basil to abandon his campaigns in Bulgaria.

Despite the simplicity of concept, Conquest can be difficult to achieve as other civilizations will, naturally, resist.

Despite the efforts of several of these movements to expand their membership in Israel and achieve official recognition by the Israeli government, non-Orthodox movements have remained largely a feature of Judaism in the diaspora.

Despite guiding the club to its first trophy in eight seasons, Graham could not achieve a finish higher than tenth in the Premiership and remained unpopular with a large section of the supporters, because of his previous role at Arsenal, Tottenham's most bitter rivals.