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

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

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

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

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

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

The African countries' determination to maintain a positive momentum, despite the many and complex challenges, is truly admirable.

My own country, despite its many and varied constraints, joined the relief operations at a very early stage.

Despite the fact that the final provision of the Bonn Agreement has been implemented, many challenges remain in Afghanistan.

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

8. Emphasize, however, that many least developed countries, with the support of their development partners, have, despite many difficulties, produced notable achievements through wide ranging and far reaching reforms

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

Despite the many sacrifices we are making, our economies continue to be marginalized, and our trade balances are increasingly in deficit.

Ms. Holguín Cuéllar (Colombia) said that, despite significant achievements, her country still faced many challenges in promoting the advancement of women.

Switzerland deeply regretted that negotiations on agenda item 22 had failed during the current year despite the flexibility of many Member States.

Many just resolutions have been vetoed despite the fact that they have sought the common good, and we have seen the negative results.

Despite some positive trends, there remains a need for continued action to combat deforestation and forest degradation in many countries.

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

Despite progress in many areas, overall the world is falling short of what is needed, especially in the poorest countries (see box 2).

And Italy s parliament rejected many of Monti s proposed reductions in government spending. Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

On the other hand, many encouraging peace processes are currently in progress with respect to all major conflicts in Africa, despite continued instability.

Despite many difficulties described in the Preamble, Viet Nam has worked out appropriate solutions for maintaining political stability and promoting socio economic development.

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

For many years now, Aruba has had no problems with educational participation, despite the fact that it does not yet have compulsory education.

Many of the countries in Latin America, for instance, have experienced slow economic growth despite being fairly advanced in the transition to low fertility.

Despite a steady increase in the number of facilities number, these still fall short of providing the population substantial cover in many important areas.

For instance, corporations, especially in the financial sector, reward too many executives richly despite mediocre performance. But apart from tarring too many with the same brush, there is something deeply troubling about this narrative s reductionism.

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.

Yet, despite many gains for women since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the United Nations estimates that women still lag behind in virtually all aspects of life in many parts of the world.

Noting that, despite achievements in bilateral and unilateral arms reductions, the total number of nuclear weapons deployed and stockpiled still amount to many thousands,

So a tremendous fund of knowledge despite, again, that so many people told her not to do it, it was too expensive.

The Committee is further concerned about the low quality of education in many schools to the extent that there are many children who, despite several years of school attendance, cannot read and write or do basic calculations.

Despite the recent offensive, many of the Taliban are thought to be ready to go home and the Government of Afghanistan has attempted to encourage this.

Assuming despite all the dire predictions from many people about our future assuming we're still around, I can't imagine the world not being populated with robots.

We are disappointed that, despite many statements of intent from the Government of Serbia and Montenegro, progress has not been made on the apprehension of Mladic.

How many a prophet has fought with many devout men alongside him! They did not lose heart, despite all that they had to suffer in God's path. They neither weakened nor yielded. God loves the patient!

How many a prophet has fought with many devout men alongside him! They did not lose heart, despite all that they had to suffer in God's path. They neither weakened nor yielded. God loves the patient!

Despite the many difficulties that the Mission has faced since its inception one year ago, I believe that we have earned the confidence of the international community.

I am sure that many colleagues in this room share the same feeling that, despite some recent progress, we could and should do more for Africa.

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.

But despite the progress made, we know that, judging by present trends, many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be achieved for 100 or 150 years.

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.

He also cited the example of Bangladesh, which despite being a poor country, had developed a sophisticated system for disaster preparedness which offered many lessons for the international community.

Despite the many justified caveats, the Secretary General's recommendation to initiate a critical and comprehensive review of standards implementation this summer is a momentous event for the people of Kosovo.

Many people are suffering from poverty, hunger and disease, and many are subject to unfair international economic and trade practices that fail to take into account the needs and requirements of the developing countries, despite the acknowledgement of the firm interrelation between development and security.