Examples of spite

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In spite of these investments, the cocoa industry stagnated during the oil boom years.
Contributing to a personal pension in spite of low earnings was much more common among women than men.
In spite of the rapid spread of agent technology, there is, as yet, little evidence of an engineering approach to the development of agent-based systems.
In spite of having a low number of items, the internal consistenc ies are satisfactory or good.
In spite of an increasing number of females engaging in the musical profession, the textbooks hardly mention famous female composers and performers.
Further, the percent carbon-13 in acetate decreased with time in spite of the increase in the percent carbon-13 in glucose.
During the last twenty-five years, however, not much seems to have happened, in spite of the advent of digital recording technology.
In spite of this pessimistic assessment, there seems to be a theoretical possibility by which the output of a laser can be increased substantially.
In spite of this, his speech is still far more standardized than that of his audience interlocutors for variables (r) and (l).
In spite of the fact that it is kept in the name of the book, the name is wrong.
Therefore, high precision trajectory tracking is achieved in spite of uncertainties and modelling errors.
In spite of that, the criteria by which female poets were evaluated and judged were almost always put for th and applied by men.
In spite of not formally owning the land, crown tenants enjoyed a lifetime right of occupation and the possibility to choose a successor.
In spite of its historical framework the work is dominated by the fates of its three principal characters.
After total correction at the age of 1 year, the cardiomegaly did not improve in spite of reduced atrioventricular valvar regurgitation.
In spite of the number of studies conducted in this area, our understanding of the temporal variation exhibited by various soil attributes is relatively poor.
In spite of many ethical considerations for neural implant technologies being shared with generic research ethics questions, there are subsets needing special attention.
Occupational pension scheme membership had remained stable over the period from 1987 to 1993-4, in spite of increased opportunity to join a scheme.
In spite of this chemical variability, their use as probes of pore size has given systematic and interpretable results.
In spite of accommodating many frugivorous residents, there was no constant fruit-rich condition in the hill forest.
In spite of his conscious determination to appear young, his unconscious fears ultimately become realized.
In spite of their formal knowledge of letters and writing conventions, these children failed to understand how the letters function to represent language.
In spite of the above general criticisms it must be said that some of the individual contributions merit serious attention.
In spite of the difficulties associated with natural language processing and writing automated queries, the system performed very well.
In spite of having fewer power resources, client organisations with clear-cut interests may well be more important in explaining the variance between programmes.
In sum, in spite of scholarly disregard, public financing and monetary policies directly shaped the performance of the rural economy.
In spite of basing redemption payments on existing obligations, however, other aspects of the emancipation process pointed to something more than maintaining the status quo.
In spite of this, 68 % of the persons in the oldest age cohort responded.
In spite of the many and abundant bribes, the prospective traitors either were neutralized or, in most cases, did not stir.
In spite of the power and dominance of the small-state realistic interpretation during the post-war era, a couple of distinct counter-narratives could be discerned.
In spite of a request made by his personal physician, the patient refused any further laboratory (liver enzymes) or radiology investigation.
The results remained significant in spite of a small number of subjects in both the groups.
In spite of his introvertedness, the visitors found him pleasing in appearance.
In spite of this resistance, the gas industry developed.
In spite of their comparative disadvantage at presentation, female patients had a similar likelihood of a favorable one-year treatment outcome.
If all cultures, in spite of natural differences, had a common, moral base, it would be possible to claim equivalence of all cultures.
In spite of a host of imponderables it is possible to speculate on the composition of some of the smaller properties.
In spite of her title, she does not pursue in detail questions about the language in which men and women reason.
In spite of all the grandeur that surrounded it, there was no one to call it creator; for it had not brought forth creation.
In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, the first attempts of the missions to teach the value of cash were not a success.
In spite of this recent interest, the drawing can never assume equivalence to built architecture.
In spite of these considerations, the entire ecosystem is more than just species and habitat conservation.
In spite of such similarities between the two patterns, there are also robust differences between them.
In spite of the problems discussed, my overall assessment of this book is positive.
In spite of cross-section data, there is price variation because farmers buy inputs from different sources.
In spite of the importance of this system, there are few existence results in the literature, and these concern specific (ansatz) solutions.
In spite of a general increase of the ionization probability stabilization is still present.
In spite of the lower intensity, we observe similar flyer velocities.
In spite of the title and notation, the paper does not present an explicitly monadic language.
In spite of tremendous environmental changes some parts of the parties' social-policy ideologies have remained fairly stable.
In spite of its shortcomings, there exist few viable alternatives to annual crop production in general, and grain production in particular.
In spite of this progress, additional improvements in soil management will be required to restore and then maintain the functional capacity of the soil resource.
Persevering in spite of hardships stirs the search for comforting life affirmations.
In spite of the fact that the bootstrapping approach is very appealing due to its reduction in handcrafting, it does present some problems.
In spite of these efforts, the vernacular has taken a life of its own, giving rise to forms that often deviate from the prescriptive norm.
In spite of these first ideas, typed transformation in our model is still a subject for future work.
In spite of any apparent limitations, our previous experiences of the approach convince us that it is well worth the investment of serious, further study.
In spite of these simplifications, the ray-based methods give natural-sounding results even in real time.
In spite of this correspondence, there seems to be a different attitude towards types between the two worlds.
In spite of the profusion of theoretical considerations, field practice is largely the same, as are the basic reports.
In spite of these strengths, some limitations should be noted.
In spite of all that was available, it is not clear how much of these materials were used.
In spite of three different and major reforms between 1986 and 1994, policy principles were not even discussed in the evaluations.
Not surprisingly, this was not an effective approach, and in spite of substantial effort, the epidemic raged on.
No difference was observed between any other groups in spite of marked differences in intensity and duration of infection.
There are many examples of domain-specific knowledge that signally fail to be integrated in spite of fully developed language structures for talking about them.
In spite of the difficulties of obtaining raw materials, the prospects for the cotton textile industry were quite good.
In spite of this, the differential calculation is not suited to self-formation.
In spite of centuries of experience and experiment, the practicalities and bene®ts of general education (schooling) remain uncertain.
We may then safely consider it a coherent sociological unit in spite of the extensive geographical space it covers.
In spite of lower dosage with the spray, the effect seems to be favorable, probably due to better absorption in the nasal mucosa.
In spite ofbeing treated as if immune deficient (administration of irradiated andfilteredblood products, infection control measures), these infants were nonsurvivors.
In spite of reasonable long-term survival, very few patients had an uneventful follow-up after surgery.
The first one is that in spite of what was claimed by market traders, some bean seeds may not have been produced locally.
In spite of these and other challenges, we must continue to relate our functional models to brain imaging data.
In spite of these quibbles, this well-written and very readable book can be highly recommended.
The engaging themes within this work develop in spite of the chapter headings rather than through them.
In spite of this, the identified model is in line with the findings from previous studies.
Here too, in spite of the inclusion of fideles 'sworn men' in the address, the writ is directed at the sheriffs.
In spite of the frustrations all agreed that playing sport was not just a physical experience.
In spite of that, the main message of our study is a hopeful one.
Fragmentation has often persisted in spite of mounting pressure.
The authors examine why in spite of these results there are few examples of any lasting impact from them.
In spite of the potential for market-based reforms, the political aspects are often daunting.
In spite of effective techniques to relieve mitral obstruction, 12 % of our patients need early or delayed replacement of the valve.
In spite of the common deficits in achievement, the additional knowledge of social behaviors was useful in distinguishing persistent criminality for the two configurations.
She remains well in spite of arrhythmias at age 32 years and has 2 children.
The chapters are more or less independent in spite of many cross-references and are rather mixed in quality.
Surprisingly, in spite of the utilization of a relative measurement, 86 % of the total variability was still due to traits.
He was, in spite of himself, genial and good-humored, where he had never seemed so to me in class or in his papers.
Looking at such flows in their entirety, we can draw some interesting conclusions in spite of the entropy change across the shock.
In spite of evidence to the contrary, not all obstetricians are convinced of the value of prophylaxis with haematinics.
In spite of this experimental problem we were able to analyse the effects of growth temperature upon the environmental variability.
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