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 using old systems of classification that incorrectly separated plantains as a different species solely because of their culinary use, they are now known to belong to the same species as dessert bananas.

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 on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite publication of the recovered copy in western media, for decades, it was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of the secret protocol.

Despite theoretical arguments against the existence of faster-than-light particles, experiments have been conducted to search for them.

Despite the existence of vi clones with enhanced featuresets, sometime before June, 2000, Gunnar Ritter ported Joy's vi codebase ( taken from 2. 11BSD, February, 1992 ) to modern Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux and FreeBSD.

Despite the existence of mills, the drawing of wire down to fine sizes continued to be done manually.

Despite the existence of many of the venues, it was still a difficult task to organize a Winter Olympic Games in less than 18 months.

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Despite such unpromisingly reactionary trappings the Schimmelpenninck regime actually accomplished more in its short existence than the previous regimes had accomplished in the ten years since 1795.

" Despite those remarks, there are still some groups in existence today, although the numbers are dwindling.

Despite the existence of a narrow channel through the beach obstacles, the ramps and mines there accounted for the loss 22 LCVPs, 2 LCI ( L ) s and 4 LCTs.

Despite the existence of a large city of 5 million people, the Community of Madrid still retains some remarkably unspoiled and diverse habitats and landscapes.

Despite a scarcity of archaeological evidence, the existence of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite state has been deduced from a colossal statue erected at Luxor by Pharaoh Ramesses II, in the 13th century BCE, which lists Mu ' ab among a series of nations conquered during a campaign.

Despite being a close ally of the United States and India, Afghanistan has no relations with Israel and has criticized its existence several times.

Despite the state's interest in protecting the public and so-called " learned professions " from having unschooled persons practising them, and the state's insistence on enforcing a monopoly, the existence of laws governing ( or defining ) " unauthorized practice of Law " does not, ipso facto mean that they will be enforced.

Despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, now a tourist attraction, there is absolutely no evidence for Gelert's existence.

Despite very limited sympathy, American society began at least to acknowledge the existence of a sizable population of gays.

Despite sizable patronage, passenger services, as well as freight, operated in the red, prompting the state government to reassess its commitment to existence of the Michigan Northern Railway.

Despite a reduction in the area covered during the ten years of its existence, the company grew its core fleet from fewer than 300 passenger vehicles to a total of 379-a capacity increase of over 28 %.

Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.

Despite the decline, several appropriate technology organizations are still existence, including the ITDG which became Practical Action after a name change in 2005.

Despite the absence of an actualized sweeping change to the existence of large industrial conglomerates in Japan, the zaibatsu's previous vertically integrated chain of command, ending with a single family, has now widely been displaced by the horizontal relationships of association and coordination characteristic of.