Despite this, Indonesia has consolidated its democracy.

This approach continues despite its persistent failure.

Despite its seeming plausibility, this view is wrong.

Despite its long history of political violence, its creative industries are expanding.

Moreover, Venezuela has its own economic problems, despite its enormous dollar reserves.

Second, countries should support Iraq s government, despite its shortcomings.

Despite these painful losses, RBSS is continuing its work.

Despite the constitutional guarantee, its implementation still is precarious.

Despite its popularity, however, Al Jazeera has not succeeded financially.

However, despite its many advantages, congestion charges face some skepticism.

But, despite its recent poor performance, Japan retains impressive power resources.

Finally, the international finance community, despite its current problems, must be mobilized.

The League of Arab States remains one obvious choice despite its limitations.

Despite its financial difficulties, he hoped that UNRWA would continue to deliver its services to the refugees.

We know that despite its great wealth and its groundbreaking medical research America s health care system is awful.

MAYNOOTH, IRELAND Despite its many woes, the European Union remains a lodestar for poorer states outside its borders.

Despite its problems, the euro is very likely to survive the current crisis.

Despite its frequent economic booms, Asia is also a strategic and security minefield.

Despite its abundant land and water resources, Iraq is a net food importer.

Despite its declared commitment to non interference, China s interests in Sudanese oil imply otherwise.

Nevertheless, despite the merits of its analysis, the IMF underestimates China s progress in rebalancing.

This is the approach still preferred by the Obama administration, despite its poor performance.

Singapore should continue to be a role model for China, despite its smaller size.

Indonesia s new democracy may be imperfect, but has thrived despite its initial poor prospects.

It is also the problem that plagues Turkish democracy, despite its longer track record.

This turn towards authoritarianism bodes ill for the Turkish economy, despite its strong fundamentals.

This is unfortunate, because, despite its problems, the EU does have much to offer.

But despite its central place in America s collective memory, Pearl Harbor remains little understood.

That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.

Despite its current travails, it will discover a path to prosperity when the US does.

And despite recurrent bouts of concern throughout its history, America reaps huge benefits from immigration.

Not surprisingly, despite its theoretical benefits, health IT has few fans among health care providers.

Despite a comparative large military spending, it has been relatively slow to modernize its forces.

Despite its nominal autonomy, it was subjected to strong direct rule from central Soviet authorities.

The F 15E, despite its origins, includes significant structural changes and much more powerful engines.

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

But, despite its international isolation and its domestic discredit, Ortega s has nonetheless renewed his pact with Alemán to preserve his misrule.

Should it lose this, it would drastically weaken its own position vis à vis its potential regional partners (and rivals), despite its ideal geopolitical location.

Taiwan deserves great credit for standing on its own two feet, despite the international isolation imposed.

Despite its failures, the UN is probably still the best placed organization to oversee such efforts.

Despite having permission for its events, PalFest attracted the attention of members of the Hamas government.

Despite power consumption issues, and repeated predictions of its end, Moore's law is still in effect.

Despite its imperfections, the United Nations embodies humanity's hope for a peaceful and equitable world order.

With its assistance the Government would continue, despite all constraints, to strive towards the common objective.

Moreover, despite the changes in Iran since its presidential election in June, international negotiations over its nuclear ambitions remain a dead letter.