Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

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

Despite Lady Sayer's establishment background, she was a fearless and impassionedfighter in the defence of Dartmoor: frequently she deliberately interrupted army live-firing exercises on Dartmoor's military ranges, and in 1985 snubbed The Prince of Wales over the Duchy of Cornwall's management plan for Dartmoor, since this allowed for a continuance of military usage.

Despite having a single Chinese spelling, 太極拳, there are two different spellings in English usage, one derived from the Wade-Giles and the other from the Pinyin transliteration, with the West mostly being familiar with the Wade-Giles, t ' ai chi ch ' uan.

Despite its longlasting trademark status, the word Teletype went into common generic usage in the news and telecommunications industries.

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 common usage, the person who shoes horses is a farrier ( though a blacksmith may fabricate the shoes ).

Despite this usage of " covariant ", it is more accurate to say that the Klein – Gordon and Dirac equations are invariant, and that the Schrödinger equation is not invariant.

" " Despite occasional usage notes, lexicographers generally disclaim any intent to guide writers and editors on the thorny points of English usage.

Despite using the existence of the Lithuanian language as a patriotic argument, the usage of the language itself became more and more narrow among the higher strata of nobles.

Despite being ranked first in worldwide subway usage, subways make up a small fraction of heavy rail rapid transit in Tokyo alone — only 274 out of 882 railway stations, as of 2007.

Despite Generation 2's usage of the yellow and orange Constructicons, a pair of " Construction Green " Decepticons were released in 1995.

Despite its popularity in informal usage, the name is rarely recorded on birth certificates in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, as it is considered a diminutive and not a formal name.

Despite receiving widespread attention in popular books on dinosaurs, and the usage of a complete mounted skeleton cast in museums throughout the world, Dromaeosaurus is surprisingly poorly known from actual fossils.

Despite this, the national usage rate climbed from 15 % to 50 %.

Despite several decades of usage, the term only recently began to receive full theoretical elaboration.

Despite the League trying to discourage its usage, the name has stuck ever since.

Despite the modern chainsaw, they are still in wide use around the world, not only in competition matches against chainsaws but also in regular, real-life usage since they afford certain advantages over gasoline-powered saws.

Despite mist net's common usage very little research had been done into their effects on their relative safety.

Despite a fallout in popularity among machine shops, cast iron remains the most popular material for surface masters ( different usage from a surface plate ) among laboratory metrologists, machine builders, gage makers, and other high-accuracy industries that have a requirement for gauging flatness.

Despite millennia of change in shape, usage and meaning, a few of these characters remain recognizable to the modern reader of Chinese.

Despite the rundown in the line's usage over time, all the timetables required three locomotives to operate the passenger services each day.

Despite the absence of laws, the CDSS vendors would almost certainly be viewed as having a legal duty of care to both the patients who may adversely be affected due to CDSS usage and the clinicians who may use the technology for patient care.

Despite its toxicity, Native Americans used very small amounts of clematis as an effective treatment for migraine headaches and nervous disorders.

Despite preparing vast amounts of audience research, programming proposals and an extremely comprehensive application document for the ITC, the TVS board – now minus its founder James Gatward – calculated that it needed to outbid all opposition in order to retain its licence.

Despite this effort, the movement gained popularity in the early 1940s, when some 300, 000 American troops were stationed in the New Hebrides during the Second World War, bringing with them large amounts of supplies, or " cargo ".

Despite the considerable amounts of money Hofmann had made from document sales, he was deeply in debt, in part because of his increasingly lavish lifestyle and his purchases of genuine first-edition books.

Despite all the success, Factory Records is losing vast amounts of money, both on The Haçienda and on recording its bands.

Despite Isaacs ' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, " calm, sedate and suburban " life, which he prefers to the " hideously compromised lives " of the more rich and famous: " I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives.

Despite its ethical claims, the bank does invest substantial amounts from its investment funds in Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco both of which have faced numerous claims of irresponsible marketing to children, and accusations that they provide support to smugglers.

Despite containing considerable amounts of indigestible tannins, mulga leaves are a valuable fodder source, particularly in times of drought, as it is palatable to stock and provides up to 12 % crude protein.

Despite the large amounts of precipitation, it was considered beneficially due to drought conditions in some areas, especially in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon.

Despite being thin, he is capable of eating astonishingly large amounts of food and is constantly seeking to do so.

Despite this warning, DeMeo's crew continued to sell large amounts of cocaine, marijuana, and a variety of narcotic pills, a violation many members of all Five Families continued to commit through the late 1970s and early 1980s due to the tremendous profits gained.

Despite Theodoros Stamos protestations that he had done nothing wrong, the Tax Court also ruled against him for liability for various self-dealing excise taxes under IRS code section 4941 for the years 1970 through 1976 in the total amount of $ 19, 407, 500, and additions to tax under sections 6651 ( a )( 1 ) and 6684 for the same years in the respective total amounts of $ 724, 375 and $ 2, 957, 500.

Despite, or because of, its deliberately vulgar and anti-commercialist title, Cunt proved to be the band's most successful release to that point of their career, earning them high amounts of radio play, especially by Triple J, even though its title did make life difficult for the distributors and it didn't make it into many high street shops for the same reason.

Despite never being finished, large amounts of grading and construction were done, including many large concrete supports.

Despite large amounts of arable land south of the Sahara Desert, small, individual land holdings are rare.

Despite its being severely understrength and an ad-hoc formation, the Müncheberg Division eventually received small amounts of the latest in supplies and equipment, including several Panther ( Type G ) tanks equipped with Sperber Infrared ( IR ) systems, as well as a company of Panzergrenadiers equipped with Sperber IR systems.

Despite this, he appears to be very lax and lazy, as he is almost always asleep during classes and car rides, as his transformations and brawls tend to be highly taxing, thus requiring large amounts of sleep and relaxation to compensate.

Despite that most Voxel rendering tests use very large amounts of memory ( up to several Gb ), Jon Olick of id Software claimed the technology is able to compress such SVO to 1. 15 bits per voxel of position data.