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

Despite the complexity involved and the need for technical assistance to the weakest nations in the negotiation, a multilateral investment agreement should be among the top priorities on the international agenda.

Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

Recent steps had been taken to ensure that agencies provided assistance to such groups within their respective areas of competence, on a collaborative basis, though further efforts were needed.

The Lisbon Treaty offers a fundamental redesign of how the Union works, but, despite the pressing need to enhance EU institutions mobility and flexibility, it is still awaiting ratification.

That means that investment is extremely high and that, despite the high share of infrastructure investment, there is an urgent need to manage the potential risks.

Despite some positive trends, there remains a need for continued action to combat deforestation and forest degradation in many countries. Underlying causes of deforestation are complex and varied.

Although the original intent was not met, Rolls Royce eliminated the need for many rows of variable stators, with all its inherent complexity, thereby saving weight, cost and improving reliability.

And yet, despite the urgent need for major policy adaptations at the national level, and much better regional and global coordination, progress has been disappointing.

Despite the need to use new technologies in outreach activities, the importance of traditional means of communication, such as radio, for millions of people was not in doubt.

While this downward trend is positive, the occurrence of assisted return highlights the need for reinforcing the system of verification of voluntarinesss through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the established Management and Coordination Mechanism (MCM) framework.

Beyond this carefully targeted and, in principle, limited task, there remains the need to strengthen the sphere of common values and cooperation in societies that will, after all, remain multicultural.

In conclusion, most responding States have built the political and strategic foundations for effective demand reduction strategies, though further action is needed to improve data collection and evaluation capacity in order to support the development of future interventions.

Although President George W. Bush says he believes in markets, in this case he has called for voluntary action. But it makes far more sense to use the force of markets the power of incentives than to rely on goodwill, especially when it comes to oil companies that regard their sole objective as maximizing profits, regardless of the cost to others.

In the process, inequality has risen further. And yet, despite the urgent need for major policy adaptations at the national level, and much better regional and global coordination, progress has been disappointing.

Many people in the advanced countries, and even some in Russia, look increasingly supportive of a war with Iran, despite or perhaps owing to the need to address the ongoing global economic crisis and failure of international governance.

Redundant workers have ended up in worse performing activities, such as informal services, causing economy wide productivity to stagnate, despite impressive manufacturing performance.

He is rich but he is not happy.

There are exceptions, though.

Austen continued to work in spite of her illness.

By increasing the number of IP addresses available, IPv6 removes the need for network address translation (NAT), a method of sharing a limited number of addresses among a larger group of devices, although NAT will still be required to communicate with devices that are on existing IPv4 networks.

This was despite the fact that during World War I the forts had proved ineffective despite strong support from artillery and infantry.

Access to the public hospital system is based on clinical need.

But progress is nonetheless being made.

It has remained at peace, despite regional wars.

Nevertheless, he is telling the truth.

However, the celebrations were peaceful and joyful.

The people are beautiful and loving despite all the regrets.

Our civilization, despite its drugs, prostitution, alcoholism, incivility, and vandalism, will always be better than rule by Mullahs or soldiers, because its social problems can be allayed, if never entirely eliminated, without changing the foundations of the regime.

Although the need for increasing social spending, as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), is attracting growing attention of countries in all developing regions, the ECLAC region seems to be leading by example.

Although five is a good number, of course.

For all her wealth, she does not look happy.

But, however appealing this logic may be, it is wrong.

That said, we are not doomed to succeed.

The problem is real, though exaggerated.

Although there was calm, the village had not yet surrendered.

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That's what I finally realized, although it was deadly dark.

Despite this they are not officially called soldiers.

It proved a commercial hit despite being a shoestring budget.

Our work is a message to show that we insist on living our lives, although it seems impossible, and despite the restricted potential for growth we need to show to the world our talents to help us grow instead of being defeated.

Nim, though, lives on an island in the South Pacific.

Some delegations and non governmental organizations underlined the need to ensure that there was a genuine link between the fishing vessel and the owner and emphasized the need to define the genuine link.

It is not clear as to the cause of this dispute, though some attribute it to the builder insisting on cash payment (though this has yet to be verified).

However, despite the availability of multitrack tape, stereo did not become the standard system for commercial music recording for some years, and remained a specialist market during the 1950s.