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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 these improvements, the situation remains tense in many places.

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.

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

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

Despite their best efforts, genetically engineered crops are the most rapidly successful agricultural innovation in history.

Despite special fund raising efforts, funding to finance training activities in Nairobi could not be secured.

Despite the Chairman's efforts, it was not possible to reach an overall agreement on those issues.

Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Despite their tireless efforts, African countries, especially in the sub Saharan region, faced numerous development difficulties.

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.

However, we encourage those efforts to continue, despite the apparent lack of progress at the present time.

Moreover, corruption is reportedly still prevalent in some police units, despite the ongoing efforts to tackle it.

This is an issue on which, despite ongoing efforts, we were unable to reach a balanced agreement.

It is regrettable to note that, despite the great efforts exerted, fewer tangible results have been achieved.

Despite those efforts, much remained to be done in order to provide children with a better future.

The reason why despite all the efforts to cut it down, to constrain it, to hold it back why these open models will still start emerging with tremendous force, is that they multiply our productive resources.

It is important to point out, however, that despite these additional efforts, the number of bilateral and multilateral donors or private foundations that support road safety remains far from sufficient to address current and future needs.

Unfortunately, despite those efforts the share of African and least developed countries in international trade continued to decline.

Unfortunately, despite these measures, Al Qaida continues to be able to mount devastating attacks.

In fact, these efforts must overlap.

However, despite the efforts it had undertaken, the international community had not prevented the production of heroin in Afghanistan.

The problem of missing persons remained unresolved, despite the efforts of the Government and the families of those missing.

Despite all efforts, however, the previous year had not seen a substantial reduction of conflict induced internally displaced persons.

Despite efforts to improve governance and combat corruption, the situation regarding economic, social and cultural rights had not improved.

These figures reflected the government's determination to polish its image internationally, but they declined sharply in less than two years, despite women's efforts, executive, managerial, supervisory and advisory positions in government remain largely in the hands of men

And despite the aerodynamic interactions of these propeller blades, they're able to maintain stable flight.

Despite these positive developments, serious problems remained, and salaries, pensions and student scholarships remained unpaid.

Despite these problems, Tajikistan had continued to make payments under its multi year payment plan.

Despite the efforts of the international forestry community, total forest area continues to decline in most regions of the world.

Yet, the international community, despite the consistent efforts it has made, has always encountered enormous difficulties in tackling this problem.

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

Despite efforts to diversify, most households in rural areas still depend on land and natural resources for their basic subsistence.