Despite efforts by the Tribunal to recruit more qualified staff, many sections still remain understaffed.

Despite my efforts,

Despite the efforts of the Government of Cyprus and recent positive developments, the fate of many missing persons remained unresolved.

Despite many efforts, there is a lack of sustainable and adequate funding, as well as a need for improved coordination.

Despite efforts made internationally, regionally, nationally and many times locally, there are indications that the marine litter problem keeps growing worse.

Concerned that, despite the efforts of the international community, many thousands of innocent human beings continue to be victims of genocide,

Despite all my efforts... you still...

That evaluation report highlights the considerable efforts that have been made to clean up the police force, despite the many difficulties encountered.

3. Despite these efforts, formidable challenges remain.

Despite that, however, their efforts to improve the living conditions of young people through sustainable development have been very limited for many years.

Despite their best efforts to adjust, many of those countries remained in the grip of wrenching poverty, acute unemployment and crushing external indebtedness.

Field systems efforts are progressing steadily despite limited resources.

Despite those efforts, many affected people, including children, have yet to receive the attention they need in AIDS specific and related initiatives and in funding mechanisms.

However, I cannot conceal my disappointment at the fact that so many opportunities have been lost while so many avenues for Arab intraregional cooperation remain inadequately exploited, despite some noteworthy efforts in recent months.

The Ministers noted that despite IRNA's untiring efforts to make NANAP a success, it has for many years been inactive due to declining support from Member Countries.

Mr. Popkov (Belarus) said that, despite the efforts of the international community over the past three years, it had been impossible to prevent many recent terrorist acts.

Despite these improvements, the situation remains tense in many places.

Despite the gains, the peace process still faces many challenges.

Instances of torture have always occurred despite efforts to eliminate them.

Despite the efforts made, housing supply falls far short of demand.

Despite those efforts, there had been no change in their situation.

Iraqis turned out despite many difficulties and attempts at violent disruption.

Despite those achievements, many challenges remain in each of those areas.

Existing efforts cover many sectors and operate at many levels.

But despite the attention paid to these efforts, they remain emphatically extracurricular.

Despite those encouraging figures, it is clear that more efforts are needed.

Despite their efforts, his family have been unable to determine his whereabouts.

With the war and the embargo and the increase in the cost or the unavailability of needed materials, reconstruction has become more difficult, despite many efforts by the Burundian authorities.

Despite progress made, the diamond sector continues to face many serious challenges.

Despite Kazakhstan's best efforts, more help was needed from the country's development partners.

Despite the efforts of Governments, the demand for narcotic drugs continued to rise.

Despite all such efforts, we, like many developing countries, know that much remains to be done in order to honour all the national commitments that have been made to our youth.

35. Despite the efforts made and the constructive spirit of partnership shown by many countries, much remained to be done if the agenda was to be completed as soon as possible.

Despite being fascinated with English, many Japanese don't even try to study it.

Many more educational efforts would be needed.

Despite the New York Times' and Vanity Fair's best efforts recently, they're not brothers.

Despite efforts to mitigate natural disasters, response was constrained by limited capacity and resources.

Despite those efforts, drug abuse continued to rise among both young people and adults.

But appearances can deceive. Despite improvements and reforms, many of Japan's fundamentals remain woeful.

Finally, despite the highly technical character of DSA, it does not address many issues.

Despite admirable mine clearance efforts, there was much work ahead and international support was indispensable.

151. The low level of participation by women in political and social affairs, despite the efforts of many churches and NGOs, should also be a source of particular concern to political parties and universities.

Many developing countries had also made substantial efforts.

Despite renewed economic growth in many developing countries, unemployment and underemployment were still serious problems.

While mobilization of domestic resources has improved in many developing countries, the efforts made by the landlocked developing countries in that respect remain far from adequate, despite the good national policies that are in place.