Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it.

Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

Despite using advanced Jet and rocket propelled aircraft, it was overwhelmed by Allied numbers and a lack of trained pilots and fuel.

Despite its controversial subject, the film is still recognized for its revolutionary approach to using music and cinematography.

Despite his reputation as a democrat, Chaves imposed a state of siege three weeks after he took office, using his emergency powers to attack the supporters of González and ex-President Felipe Molas López.

Despite great initial excitement, the seed was found to be that of a European Juncaceae or Rush plant that had been glued into the fragment and camouflaged using coal dust.

Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s.

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

Despite his advanced age, he himself hauled most of his 32, 000 books a quarter of a mile to their new home, using his wheelbarrow.

Despite the legal disputes surrounding this invention, it is unquestionable that Campbell was the first to actually construct a telephone circuit using loading coils.

Despite the fact that optical fiber had been invented in 1970, this cable was still using coaxial cable technology.

Despite his concerns, Aman continued using Elad for intelligence operations until 1956, when he was caught trying to sell Israeli documents to the Egyptians.

Despite using an irrational number base, when using standard form, all non-negative integers have a unique representation as a terminating ( finite ) base-φ expansion.

Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of 1 – 2 hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm.

Despite improvements, the road was still considered a challenging drive ; the Victorian Police motor school even using it for training around 1966.

Despite accepting the above arrangements, Stalin dominated the conference, using the Soviet victory at the Battle of Kursk and military might, as well as key positions on the German front, to get his way.

Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott lures the alien from the forest to his bedroom using a trail of Reese's Pieces candy.

Despite these setbacks, in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley.

Despite this, they can often be verified using information from folklore.

Despite using the Tetris name, this game has no resemblance to its Russian namesake.

Despite this, wherries were using the navigation until 1912, when a disastrous flood damaged the locks.

Despite such examples of a similar construction that uses a participle instead of a gerund, using a noun or pronoun in anything except the possessive case as the subject of a gerund ( He affected me going there ) is incorrect in formal writing.

Despite its unpopularity, the Rump was a link with the old constitution, and helped to settle England down and make it secure after the biggest upheaval in its history.

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 logo changes since 2005, the old " DC bullet " continues to be used only on the DC Archive Editions series.

Despite the Soviets ' possession of Hitler's remains, Stalin did not believe that his old nemesis was actually dead, a belief that remained for years after the war.

Despite being renamed to CSG, all chips produced were still stamped with the old " MOS " logo until 1989.

Despite the slingshot's reputation as a tool of juvenile delinquents, the NSA reported that 80 % of slingshot sales were to men over 30 years old, many of them professionals.

Despite being underdogs against the defending Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division semifinals, Gretzky led the Kings to a shocking upset of his old squad, spearheading the Kings ' return from a 3 – 1 series deficit to win the series 4 – 3.

Despite the meeting, Ní Mháille later returned to her old ways, though nominally directing her raids against the " enemies of England " during the Nine Years War.

Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".

Despite the name, the skeleton is that of a young man who lived about 33, 000 years ago at the end of the Upper Paleolithic Period ( old stone age ).

Despite their long-time in the music business, Psyche proved once again with some newer selections " Assassin " and " Misguided Angels " that they remain unique and inspiring to both new and old generations of synth-pop fans.

Despite the increased cost, the more modern variation ( which can be considered as " heavier " than old streetcar systems, even though it is called " light rail ") is the dominant form of urban rail development in the United States.

Despite this, many parts of Latin America and Europe continue to have large Trotskyist groupings, with followings both young and old, who are attracted to its " anti-Stalinist " positions and its rhetoric of workers ' internationalism.

Despite this, there are also smaller parades and demonstrations on 1 July, the date which maps the old style date of the Boyne to the new style in the usual manner and which also commemorate the heavy losses of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Despite their efforts to keep the plot a secret, especially from Mrs. Partridge's husband, the trio of old men were well aware of the affair.

Despite the fact that Achilles and Deidamea could have been as young as eight years old, the two soon became romantically involved to the point of intimacy.

Despite his fury of war, Diomedes held back his sword so that the old man might speak.

Despite opposing the collaborating regime, the French Résistance generally sympathised with its antifeminism and did not encourage the participation of women in war and politics, following, in the words of the historian, Henri Noguères, " a notion of inequality between the sexes as old as our civilisation and as firmly implanted in the Résistance as it was elsewhere in France.

" Despite this title, much of his engineering work was done elsewhere, repairing old forts and building new ones on the Florida coast and in Mobile, Alabama.

Despite this, the expression " out in the tules ( toolies )", referring to the tule rush plant that lined the lakeshore, is still common in the dialect of old Californian families and means " beyond far away.

Despite concerns of " The Cannon " being retired along with the old field, it has been taken out to the new complex and can still be heard following every Lions ' score.

Despite the Emperor's ambitions for him, Gregory, then barely twenty years old, withdrew to Mount Athos in the year 1316 and became a novice there in the Vatopedi monastery under the guidance of the monastic Elder St Nicodemos of Vatopedi.

Despite having a name that evokes images of the Texas Frontier, Gun Barrel City is only fifty years old.

Despite the fires, many of the old blocks have been rebuilt and the business district has been extended considerably.