Despite several peace proposals, Kony and his gang have not responded.

Despite the adoption of several commendable measures, persistent institutional and governmental shortcomings might require attention.

The construction work continues to this date, despite several objections UNIFIL addressed to the Lebanese authorities.

The US has been lucky to escape further terrorist strikes since September 11, 2001, despite several attempts.

Despite limited resources, India has, over the years, made contributions to several Africa specific funds and programmes.

Several European heavyweights, led by Germany and France, said no, despite strong support for the idea from the United States.

Indeed, judging by several key indicators, progress toward democracy in China has stalled, despite unprecedented economic prosperity and personal freedom.

Several offers seem to go back on previous commitments or lack real change in the level of commitment, despite modifications.

However, despite the passage of several years since the adoption of resolution 1379 (2001), there seems to be little progress.

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Moreover, several African countries continued to implement long term reforms to improve their business and investment climate, despite the daunting challenges presented by the crisis.

Despite massive injections of funds and unprecedented security, insurgents have still managed to halt or reduce oil production and exports several times since the invasion.

Several Latin American leaders and commentators recommended that US President Barack Obama attend, despite Castro s presence, in order to confront him about Cuba s dearth of democracy.

The town council has refused to return the boat despite several requests by the United Kingdom, most recently by John Stuttard, the Lord Mayor of London.

(a) Despite the methodology outlined above, the GoE should attempt to outline a proposal combining several of the themes that have been addressed by individual groups.

Yet, despite talk of a rising Asia, only a handful of East Asian economies have moved from low to high income status during the past several decades.

Despite a detailed critique of the prosecution s case by two Chinese defense lawyers, the sentence, which had been known privately among officials for several days, was confirmed.

But women remain excluded from the vote, despite attempts by several to participate in areas that the Wahhabi religious authorities deem acceptable to the nature of women.

However, despite the officially proclaimed support for returns that was expressed on several occasions, one more so called year of returns is passing, and there are no results.

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Despite the siege and the bombings, the construction of Moscow's metro system continued through the war, and by the end of the war several new metro lines were opened.

Concern was expressed at the fact that some States used seized material for the licit manufacture of pharmaceuticals, despite several Economic and Social Council resolutions cautioning against that practice.

Several nominations had been for the same quantities in 2005 and 2006 and had not proposed any progress towards phase out despite the fact that alternatives were apparently available.

Despite several protests, a police report, and multiple press conferences, many in the trans community feels they are being mocked and silenced, while the violence against them continues with impunity.

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.

Despite the considerable progress achieved primarily in the fight against poverty and famine in Asia all reports draw attention to the extremely alarming and unacceptable downturn in several parts of Africa.

Despite written agreement from the Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia to cooperate with the audits, several institutions or individuals refused to provide relevant information in a timely manner.

Multiple people familiar with the conflict have pointed out that the film deals almost exclusively with Uganda, despite the fact that the LRA has not been active in the country for several years.

Poverty is borne equally by men and women, yet despite this, there are several examples of gender inequality which deepen differences between men and women in relative poverty levels in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The level of sensitivity involved has prevented the Bureau from seeking and accepting external funding from several potential sources and the proportion of cost sharing has been relatively low despite strong international interest.

(b) Despite IMF lending and several rounds of IMF programmes, the economic deterioration could not be redressed, and in most of the cases there were runs on bank deposits and an ensuing bank crisis.

It is also of relevance that, despite strong briefings from several national statistical offices, the potentially misleading conclusions from having inadequate information on MDG indicators did not rate a mention at the 2005 World Summit.

Despite these successes, it is suspected that there remain several hundred child soldiers who have not yet gone through this disarmament process and thus have not been removed from the influence of their commanders and abductors.

The Committee is further concerned about the low quality of education in many schools to the extent that there are many children who, despite several years of school attendance, cannot read and write or do basic calculations.

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Some learners learn quickly and reach a near native level of competence, but others learn slowly and get stuck at relatively early stages of acquisition, despite living in the country where the language is spoken for several years.

(h) Despite the increasing importance of statistics and the push towards evidence based decision making for assessing the effectiveness of programmes, the statistical activities of several regional commissions have been downgraded since the initiation of the MDG initiative.

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The first signal was sent when Ukraine and Georgia were denied the Membership Action Plan (MAP) that they sought. Several European heavyweights, led by Germany and France, said no, despite strong support for the idea from the United States.

However, the auditor was unwilling to retrieve the electronic data in relation to any of the claimants in this instalment for which the firm allegedly reissued contemporaneous pre invasion audited financial statements despite several requests by the mission team.

I spent several weeks during that three month period listening to friends defend the loss of freedom on the basis that it made them feel safe this despite the fact that the SoE in fact did little to curb crime.

Despite the commitment and personal efforts of the judges and the cooperation provided by several countries in setting up the Tribunal, he is concerned that the pressure weighing on the judges and the prevailing insecurity in Iraq may undermine its independence.

The State party also suggests that the Bangladeshi authorities do not take a great interest in the complainant, since he could travel about the country for several years doing political work, despite the fact that he was charged with murder.

Though it had been put on hold at several points since the matter had been brought before the Israeli courts, construction of the Wall continued, despite the Advisory Opinion given by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July 2004.

The State party did not respond to the Committee's request, under rule 86 91 of the rules of procedure, to submit information and observations in respect of the admissibility and merits of the communication, despite several reminders addressed to it.