Despite having the same or similar names, they fulfilled different roles.

However, cities, despite having this negative aspect to them, are also the solution.

We are pleased to see that the Court, despite having been established only recently, is fully operational.

Despite having made complaints to the police, no investigations were made, and no one was prosecuted or arrested.

In May 2004, Kelsey Patterson was executed in Texas for double murder, despite having suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since 1981 and having been recommended for commutation of sentence by the Texas Board of Pardons.

Despite having a research establishment that is the envy of the world, more than half of the American public don't believe in evolution.

Some international engagements undertaken by the United Nations were not covered by the Convention, despite having serious security undertones.

Despite extensive racial mixing since the time of Spanish colonization, a percentage of the Uruguayan population should still be identified as having indigenous ancestors.

Their river is dry despite the rain just having ended, and we have 150,000 people on almost permanent food aid.

Two groups among you almost lost courage despite having God as their Guardian. The believers should always have trust in God.

Two groups among you almost lost courage despite having God as their Guardian. The believers should always have trust in God.

And they repeated the trick after finishing a lowly sixth at March's Track World Championships in London, despite Hoy having since retired.

Many of those who are disabled as a result of participation in the war feel that they have not been given sufficient attention despite having fought for the country.

Any alien who does not leave the territory of the Sultanate within the duly specified period, despite having been notified that the renewal of his residence has been denied.

Despite the recognized difficulties of establishing a new working group, Ms. Hampson stated that this would be preferable to having a Special Rapporteur to do such work alone.

Cuba is making efforts despite being a country of scarce resources and having been subjected to a strict economic, commercial and financial embargo for more than four decades.

And the idea is you fast forward and good students start failing algebra all of a sudden and start failing calculus all of a sudden, despite being smart, despite having good teachers, and it's usually because they have these Swiss cheese gaps that kept building throughout their foundation.

Earlier this year, French journalists Franck Escudie and Basille Longchamp were deported from Papua for a lack of coordination with related institutions despite having been granted rare permission to film.

The authors further state that the Supreme Court decision in the Sjolie case is already having a significant effect as a precedent, despite the entry into force of the new legislation.

Despite having pleaded their case jointly before the domestic courts, the parties opted to send complaints both to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and to the Human Rights Committee.

Those who responded to the call of God and the Messenger, despite their having received an injury, and such of them as did good deeds and feared God, shall have a great reward.

Those who responded to the call of God and the Messenger, despite their having received an injury, and such of them as did good deeds and feared God, shall have a great reward.

The successful cheaters would most likely be authoritarian states with little transparency. After all, North Korea says that it has developed nuclear weapons despite having signed the NPT.

There is no information before the Committee that, despite their having being raised by the author's son, the trial court or the Supreme Court took these matters into account.

The memory of this short lived crisis with the US is still fresh in Turkish government circles. So why, despite having burned his fingers two years ago, is Erdoğan taking up the issue again?

Participants voiced concern with regard to the difficulties being encountered in implementing action plans, despite initiatives having been taken by national human rights institutions to assist Member States in this regard.

It is also of relevance that, despite strong briefings from several national statistical offices, the potentially misleading conclusions from having inadequate information on MDG indicators did not rate a mention at the 2005 World Summit.

Sino Japanese relations are particularly fraught, with two decades of economic stagnation in Japan and rapid growth in China fueling nationalist overreaction on both sides. Having become accustomed to outsourcing its security to the US, and despite having the world s third largest economy, Japan neglected to develop its own constructive diplomatic vision.

But most cancers are made, not born, arising from damage to our genes that occurs throughout our lives. Despite having remarkably similar genes at birth, identical twins do not develop the same cancers.

Despite having been ruled contrary to international law by the International Court of Justice, construction of the wall was uprooting hundreds of Palestine civilians who were denied access to their lands, work, social services and, in many cases, their own homes.

829 1998), decided on 5 August 2003, where the Committee held that Canada, despite having abolished capital punishment, violated article 6 by deporting the author of the communication to another country where he would face the risk of the death penalty.

All of this to say, that despite the horror, and despite the death, women are never really counted.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tried to defuse the issue by first ascertaining whether the Cubans actually wanted to be invited. Having sent his foreign minister to Havana to ask, he received a surprising response Cuba did wish to attend, despite having rejected in 2009 an invitation to return to the OAS.

Meanwhile, public support for the idea of convening a constituent assembly had been growing despite the unwillingness of the leadership of the governing party (which maintained power by having the necessary votes in both houses of the Legislative Assembly) to launch a process of decolonization.

And sanctions, despite having crippled Russia's economy, have proved inadequate, thus far, to breaking Putin's will. This leaves only accommodation which means effectively granting legitimacy to the Kremlin's claim to authority over Ukraine and, presumably, the rest of its near abroad.

Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7 , despite having fallen slightly over the last year. And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25 .

But despite that, and despite the Group of Eight's important debt relief initiative, there is an urgent need to do more.

Many Europeans now resent the expanding powers of EU bureaucracy. British resistance to grand European plans is the democratic grit in an enterprise that could become authoritarian, despite having the best intentions, and should serve as a necessary corrective to the utopianism of the technocrats.

Despite British forces having been engaged in two major military operations since 2003, defense spending represents only 2.3 of GDP the lowest since the 1930 s. As a share of total government spending, defense expenditure has fallen from 7.8 in 1998 to 6.1 in 2006.

But, despite having finalized the terms of the agreement, Obama failed to persuade Afghanistan s outgoing president, Hamid Karzai, to sign it. That means that America s role in the country can be settled only after the new Afghan president assumes office in May.

The Islamic Revolution has survived a brutal war with Iraq, economic sanctions, and decades of international pressure and isolation from the US. Moreover, Iran s leaders remember that the Shah was forced to flee the country in 1979, despite having strong international support.

The Group was surprised to learn during its first meeting in Kampala that the Government had not received its notes verbales with attached questionnaires, despite their having been communicated to the Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations on 11 June 2005.

The Human Rights Committee found in 2000 that three executions had taken place in the Philippines despite pending communications alleging violations of articles 6 and 14 and the Committee having acted under its rule 86 requesting the State to refrain from executing them.

Despite this, you deny the Day of Judgment,

Despite this, you deny the Day of Judgment,