Despite these efforts, however, the living conditions at the camp remain poor.

Despite these achievements, and all the government's efforts, there are still some major weaknesses

Despite these efforts, Madagascar is faced with certain weaknesses that hinder improvement in health indicators.

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

As oil prices rise, these countries dependence on the oil sector increases, despite all efforts to diversify their economies.

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

Yet, despite these international initiatives and efforts by Maghreb governments, the situation is fragile stability and security cannot be taken for granted.

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.

Despite these problems, Japan still has remarkable strengths.

Yet, despite these measures, the situation remains worrying.

These efforts include

And, despite the government s efforts, childhood poverty also has increased under Blair.

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.

Yet despite these gales of change, institutional atavism prevails.

Despite these painful losses, RBSS is continuing its work.

In that case, a recession can occur despite the central bank s best efforts.

Despite our efforts, the film is still banned and it s not clear why.

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

Despite Nepal's determined efforts, children continued to suffer from poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition.

These efforts are ongoing.

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

Despite efforts to give it precision, estimating political risk is not an exact science.

Despite the Bush campaign's efforts at spin control, the situation in Iraq is dire.

But, despite these trumpeted results, the reality is much harsher.

Despite these successes, however, microfinance has struggled recently in India.

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

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,

These efforts have encountered difficulties.

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.

These states are electoral underachievers weak political rights despite relative affluence.

Yet, despite all these positive developments, Senegal s unusual democracy is imperiled.

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

Despite these ethnic ties, and despite having hosted them for 30 years, Pakistan does not officially allow Afghans to integrate locally.

These efforts dwarf expected US initiatives.

But these efforts ultimately went nowhere.

Yet these efforts are also costly.

In fact, these efforts must overlap.

Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.

Obama s efforts to stabilize the banking system, it almost pains me to acknowledge, succeeded despite themselves.

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

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.