Despite the large number of species in order Asterales, they do not compare in economic benefit for mankind to the Poales or to the Fabaceae.

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

Despite trailing the Nintendo Entertainment System in terms of number of units sold, the 7800 was a profitable enterprise for Atari Corp., benefiting largely from Atari ’ s name and the system's 2600 compatibility.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

Despite the opposition of some of their number, the Israelites assemble and send away their foreign wives and children.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Despite the loss, Cleveland players took home a number of awards.

Despite financial difficulties, Caligula embarked on a number of construction projects during his reign.

Despite its being a non-metric unit, a number of metric countries have used this unit for its limited range of application.

Despite making a number of mockumentaries, Guest dislikes the term.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

Despite a large number of Homo fossils finds, chimpanzee fossils ( genus Pan ) were not described until 2005.

Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single " Sound and Vision ", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two.

Despite this, there is a substantial number of chamber works that incorporate the double bass in both small and large ensembles.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite a number of invitations, the Court has so far refused to apply the protections of this article to same-sex marriage.

Despite ( or because of ) the recession, the total number of franchised units increased by 5. 3 % from 2009 to 2010.

Despite its unpleasantness and expense, a diagnostic fast may be the only effective way to confirm or refute a number of serious forms of hypoglycemia, especially those involving excessive insulin.

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

Despite its small size, Hong Kong has a relatively large number of mineral occurrences.

Despite the need for an heir, Elizabeth declined to marry, despite offers from a number of suitors across Europe, including the Swedish king Erik XIV.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

Despite the classical precedents, which Machiavelli was not the only one to promote in his time, Machiavelli's realism and willingness to argue that good ends justify bad things, is seen as a critical stimulus towards some of the most important theories of modern politics.

Despite Asser's comment that the dyke ran " from sea to sea ", it is now thought that the original structure only covered about two-thirds of the length of the border: in the north it ends near Llanfynydd, less than five miles ( 8 km ) from the coast, while in the south it stops at Rushock Hill, near Kington in Herefordshire, less than fifty miles ( 80 km ) from the Bristol Channel.

Despite this, the novel ends on an upbeat note with Yossarian learning of Orr's miraculous escape to Sweden and Yossarian's pledge to follow him there.

Despite this mishap, the remainder of Victor Emanuel II ’ s reign was consumed by wrapping up loose ends and dealing with economic and cultural issues.

Despite a setback in which Shooter arrives drunk to a game and ends up in a hospital, the team advances through tournament play, with contributions from unsung players, such as the pint-sized Ollie and devoutly religious Strap.

Despite losing their drummer Mick Shrimpton ( R. J. Parnell ) as he inexplicably explodes onstage, the film ends with Spinal Tap playing a series of sold-out arena shows for enthusiastic fans on their Japanese tour.

* February 16 – Conductor Bruno Walter, the day before his death, ends his last letter with: " Despite all the dark experiences of today I am still confident that Palestrina will remain.

Despite overcoming the inevitable troubles with each other, their relationship ends when Julia's ex, Joe, a soldier, returns from the front line believing Julia to still be his girlfriend.

Despite the efforts of Sergeant Cuff, a renowned detective, the house party ends with the mystery unsolved, and the protagonists disperse.

Despite the Torah redactor usually, according to the hypothesis, interlacing together the sources, the stories here were evidently difficult to combine, as the redactor appears to have cut the end of the JE version, and beginning of the Priestly source version, joining the remaining ends of each source together.

Despite recycling, almost all of it ends up in tailings ponds.

Despite the huge costs of constructing the aqueduct, the canal effectively ends after a short distance on the north side, apart from a feeder canal to Llangollen and the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee.

Despite Somerton being situated in a rural area ; the closest main road from Somerton is the A303 road that runs near the town and stretches all the way into northern Hampshire and finally ends at Basingstoke.

Despite research dead ends, the horror of watching their son's health decline, and being surrounded by skeptics ( including the coordinators of the support group they attended ), they persisted until they finally hit upon a therapy involving adding a certain kind of oil ( actually containing two specific long chain fatty acids, isolated from rapeseed oil and olive oil ) to their son's diet.

Despite her best efforts to excite him, Sam ends the relationship and kicks her out of the bar.

Despite the instructions referring to a finite fleet, the Commodore 64 game never ends: when you clear the eighth ship called " Itsnotardenuff ", you're just replaced back on the ship, with higher-ranking droids on each deck.

Despite his irresponsibility and highly destructive urges, Hammer always ends up getting his man ( or woman ), often through sheer luck, brute force, the initiative of his partner, or some times a flash of brilliance.

Despite its chemical similarity to the compositional spectrum of the pyroxene group of minerals — where magnesium and iron substitution for calcium ends with diopside and hedenbergite respectively — it is structurally very different, with a third SiO < sub > 4 </ sub > tetrahedron in the linked chain ( as opposed to two in the pyroxenes ).

Despite his successes, he was experiencing some financial difficulties, and had to resort to other jobs in order to make ends meet.

Despite the singing, Murat Batmaz of Sea of ​​ Tranquility magazine said that the song " Black Rose Immortal " " ends with one of Akerfeldt's most violent and longest screams in his career which could only be rivaled by his guesting on Edge of Sanity's Crimson album ", and that Opeth created a " dark atmosphere on this album, which is simply unique.

Despite an initial period of awkwardness and jealousy after their romance ends, Luka and Abby become good friends again in fairly short order.

Despite Howard knocking out the midwife, the series ends with the birth of a baby girl, Emily.

Despite being hailed as a hero, Titus is intent on leaving Gormenghast to explore a wider world, and the novel ends with him dramatically riding away to seek his fortune in the unknown lands outside.