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

Despite real growth in gross domestic product, most least developed countries have fallen even further behind.

They were actually abusing them, despite the fact of how peaceful these guys were they were not even protesting.

Despite this general applicability of international humanitarian law during armed conflict, even this law has a threshold of applicability.

Female condoms are even less readily available, despite the fact that they allow women more control over their sexual relations.

Despite threats and intimidation from extremist groups targeting the electoral process, voter turnout was high even in the most vulnerable conflict areas.

Even one like, say, Tickle Me Elmo which, despite its ingenuity, really only does one thing, whereas boxes offer an infinite number of choices.

Parents are often unemployed, ill, divorced, or even incarcerated. Children become trapped in a persistent generational cycle of poverty, despite the society s general affluence.

In the future, it is possible that it may be even more difficult to obtain evidence through sampling despite improvements in detection and analysis.

The Committee notes with concern that even the most basic standard of living is not assured for millions of young children, despite widespread recognition of the adverse consequences of deprivation.

And yet, despite everything, India s economy did record roughly 9 growth for several years, and even now is growing by nearly 6 annually, behind only China and Indonesia among major economies.

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

His coalition government, despite some internal bickering, was expected to serve out its term. Not even 10 of Israelis would have preferred the opposition leader, the Labor Party s Yitzhak Herzog, as Prime Minister.

Ms. Yin said with a lingering fear that, despite the danger, she will still support her daughter's choice and she is proud of her daughter even if she was placed in that scene again!

Despite his riches, he's not contented.

Despite this institutional structure, problems remain.

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

Then there is the US Federal Reserve Board. Despite legitimate questions about the effectiveness of its unconventional and ever experimental policy stance, the Fed appears willing to be even more activist if the economy weakens.

Unfortunately, the Japanese government, despite much circumstantial and even documentary evidence supplied by Japanese historians, now chooses to deny the wartime regime s responsibility for this ghastly project. Not surprisingly, that stance has further inflamed Korean emotions.

Despite adversity, the architect achieved worldwide fame.

History suggests otherwise, despite a vulnerable dollar.

Despite all his faults he is popular.

Despite everything he is still playing dumb.

Despite some improvements, the answer remains mixed.

So Clinton, despite her so far lackluster campaign, and despite a popular perception of inauthenticity, even outright shiftiness, will probably hang on to her party and scrape through in the end. She will prevail not because her views look any more convincing than those of the center left professional pols of the Labour Party, but because her opponents look so much worse.

OIOS noted that despite the statutory role of the subregional offices as the operational arms of ECA, seminal ECA initiatives rarely addressed their role in concrete terms, even when the issues of regional collaboration were dealt with.

Despite this, you deny the Day of Judgment,

Despite this, you deny the Day of Judgment,

However, despite Lomé, the country plunged into war.

Despite his extravagancies and authoritarian style, the masses loved him. They fervently believed that he was on their side, and voted overwhelmingly for him up to the end, even when they knew that he was dying of cancer.

But, despite the pains my father had taken, the other designers expressed growing discontent about Korolev getting all the publicity, even if anonymously. In their secret world, it wasn t any secret who was behind the title Chief Designer.

While, in the development sphere, we suffer from weak implementation, on the security side, despite a heightened sense of threat among many we lack even a basic consensus and implementation, where it occurs, is all too often contested.

However, despite a modest rise in aid from an all time low of 0.22 per cent, ODA remains far below what it was during the 1980s and early 1990s, even though all donor countries became richer during 2004.4

In Japan, Abe is universally regarded to have performed badly in his first stint as Prime Minister in 2006 2007, despite his distinguished lineage. Now he takes over an even more troubled country with huge domestic and external challenges.

Despite the emphasis on improving the Organization's efficiency and effectiveness, and despite the human resources management reforms under way, the resources allocated to training seemed insufficient.

But despite our verbal assurances, they wanted some proof.

Despite different languages and cultures, everyone still became friends.

Despite this, the human being still tends to rebel

Despite this, the human being still tends to rebel

Despite certain improvements, China's human rights record remained poor.

Despite continuing economic recovery, economic fundamentals remain, however, inadequate.

Despite those impressive accomplishments, much remains to be done.

Despite the constitutional guarantee, its implementation still is precarious.

Concerned that, despite the efforts of the international community, acts of hostage taking in different forms and manifestations, inter alia, those committed by terrorists and armed groups, continue to take place and have even increased in many regions of the world,

Concerned that, despite the efforts of the international community, acts of hostage taking in different forms and manifestations, inter alia, committed by terrorists and armed groups, continue to take place and have even increased in many regions of the world,