3. Despite these efforts, formidable challenges remain.

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

Despite my efforts,

Despite these efforts, a limited number of Rwandan refugees chose to return during most of 1996.

Despite these efforts, statistics pertaining to Maori students continue to show a wide disparity between these students and the rest of the population.

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

Despite these valiant international efforts, there should be no illusion as to how long it will take to rebuild affected communities.

Despite these efforts, in early 2004 media reports began to circulate alleging widespread sexual exploitation and abuse by MONUC personnel in Bunia.

Despite these improvements, operational bottlenecks persisted.

Despite all these efforts, the Democratic Republic of the Congo still has a huge backlog of reports to submit to the relevant bodies.

Field systems efforts are progressing steadily despite limited resources.

Despite these pledges the following problems remain

Despite the efforts of UNFICYP, United Nations programmes, interested diplomatic missions and non governmental organizations, no progress has been made in removing these obstacles.

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.

Despite these efforts by you and the Bureau of the Commission on Human Rights, and despite the proven falsehood of the statements made by the observer for Palestine, the latter has so far failed to correct his remarks.

Despite these problems, an abundance of useful data exists.

Despite these achievements, there is still cause for concern.

These payments continued despite recommendations made by the auditors.

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

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

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

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.

These efforts should include

Despite the protests of UNICEF and SC UK, however, CEAWAC continued to organize forced returns from IDP camps and other settlements while insisting on financial support for these efforts.

However, despite these efforts, the results achieved are still not optimal, bearing in mind the tremendous potential of TCDC and ECDC as cost effective modalities of international development cooperation.

Despite these efforts by the bureau and the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, and despite the proven falsehood of the statements made by the observer from the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the latter has so far failed to correct his remarks.

Despite that, these animals grow back in about a year's time.

Despite these statistics, women still remain largely silent on the issue.

These efforts are hampered, however, by onerous rules and non competitive regulations and conditions of service that apply to civilian peacekeeping staff, despite the urgent recruitment needs of current operations.

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.

I strongly support these efforts.

Noting that, despite these bilateral achievements, there is no sign of efforts involving all of the five nuclear weapon States in the process leading to the total elimination of nuclear weapons,

Despite all of these similarities, we see huge differences in savings behavior.

Despite these measures, however, participation of men has never exceeded 30 rate.

Despite these achievements, the economic and developmental challenges facing Afghanistan remain daunting.

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

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

Despite these advances, however, the underlying materialistic assumptions driving poverty eradication efforts remain virtually unchallenged it is generally accepted that an increase in material resources will eradicate this condition from human life.

40. Despite these efforts, a significant weakness persists in the State s institutional framework with regard to the functions assigned to it by the Peace Agreements in the socio economic and agricultural spheres.

In fact, these efforts must overlap.