Despite these prohibitions, numerous elements of the pre-Christian culture of the Anglo-Saxon people survived the Christianisation process.

Despite United States prohibitions on the import of balisongs, beginning in the 1980s, a variety of Asian manufacturers continued to export low-cost Balisong knives to the United States.

Despite prohibitions against educating slaves, he was educated surreptitiously and had mastered the three R's, geography and grammar by the age of 10.

Despite Hovsgol's protected status, illegal fishing is common and prohibitions against commercial fishing with gillnets are seldom enforced.

Despite product warnings and federally mandated marketing prohibitions, Red Man remains a popular and profitable brand.

Despite the Austrian prohibitions against crossbreeding, other countries have practiced this to some extent.

Despite prohibitions, residents would sometimes dump trash and human excrement out the windows and into the surrounding streets and alleys.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

Despite the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he became president.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite the apparent peeling on the LM's outer skin, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Despite Nazi propaganda presenting all of the regions annexed as possessing significant German populations that wanted reunification with Germany, the Reich's statistics of late 1939 show that only 31, 000 out of 994, 092 people in the annexed Polish western territories were ethnic Germans.

Despite not possessing the four-octave range boasted by Kiske, Deris's vocal similarity to Kai Hansen, his enthusiasm, his strong songwriting skills, the return of the " classic " Helloween sound in songs such as " Where the Rain Grows " and " The Game Is On ", and the seeming rejuvenation of Weikath and Grapow seemed to strike a chord with the fans.

Despite possessing features that, today, are considered limited ( such as a 320 × 200 pixel resolution ), the versatility and ease of use offered by this engine have created a community of users who remain active to the present day.

Despite possessing, this engine could not be turbo-supercharged and Republic finally modified the design again, this time to accommodate the enormous Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, which produced.

Despite possessing greater support in the parliamentary party than Howard, Peacock unexpectedly resigned and Howard was comfortably elected Opposition Leader on 5 September.

Despite the efforts of Mathilde, Madame de Rênal, and the priests devoted to him since his early life, Julien Sorel is determined to die — because the materialist society of Bourbon Restoration France will not accommodate a low-born man of superior intellect and æsthetic sensibility possessing neither money nor social connections.

Despite the defeat and loss of many ships in the first Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, Denmark-Norway, possessing Schleswig-Holstein and Iceland, still maintained a considerable navy.

Despite starring for Beauport, and a strong junior career ( finishing with 261 points in 191 games ), Daze's value amongst NHL scouts dropped sharply due to his unwillingness to play a rough game, despite possessing the abilities for it.

Despite possessing this potent attack, Australia lost the series by 1 – 3 when Ian Botham turned in a series of brilliant individual performances.

Despite possessing what draft experts believed was a good frame for a quarterback ( 6 ' 5 ", 230 pounds ), they believed his lack of a strong throwing arm, such as that possessed by his predecessor at USC, Carson Palmer ( now with the Oakland Raiders ), would be a detriment in his professional career.

Despite possessing the two top goalscorers in the league, including 41 goal Rory Patterson, Coleraine could only finish the season in seventh.

Despite not possessing any superpowers, she has persistently proven herself a powerful foe of the superheroes of the DC universe as well as an antihero.

Despite his relationship with Sofia, he is particularly hard on her New Mutant teammates like David Alleyne, the New Mutants ' other leader, whom he views as possessing a particularly useless mutant power and as a genuine competitor as a leader and strategist.

Despite possessing such advantages, he was defeated by Yohken Asakura, one of his descendants, and Matamune, who reluctantly put aside his love and loyalty for Hao for the sake of saving the world.

Despite being exceptionally powerful for the time, the engine initially proved a disappointment, possessing poor reliability at first so that cars either Did Not Start or Failed To Finish races.

Despite this, they are still technologically advanced, possessing quantum computers, helicopters, communications and biological recording instruments.

Despite possessing the superior force, Mathews was unable to secure a decisive result, and the enemy were able to escape with the loss of one ship, while Mathews's fleet lost one and had several others badly damaged.