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

It is written, spoken and used in all provinces territories of Pakistan despite the fact that the people from differing provinces may have different indigenous languages, as from the fact that it is the base language of the country.

The fact that the rate of child marriage is still high despite these other achievements is unfortunate, and a question that needs to be answered.

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.

This is all the more urgent given the fact that, even though 30 years have passed, we are still discussing the topic in this Hall.

Despite the fact that the final provision of the Bonn Agreement has been implemented, many challenges remain in Afghanistan.

However, cultural diplomacy and initiatives such as Muslim Voices can open the door to the reality of the Muslim world as a rich space for world class artistic production.

It outsold the Mazda 323, despite being almost identical to it, because the Laser was manufactured in Australia and Ford was perceived as a local brand.

On 8 September, thousands gathered in Tehran's Jaleh Square for a religious demonstration, despite the fact that the government had declared martial law the day before.

Israel drew one quarter of its water from the Jordan River, despite the fact that only 3 per cent of the river flows inside its pre 1967 borders.

The nobles were given more weight in voting for a zemstvo, as evidenced by the fact that 74 of the zemstvo members were nobles, even though nobles were 1.3 of the population.

But, despite all these benefits, politicians are generally unwilling to accept that money can be earned honestly from those at the bottom of the income pyramid.

While marketing has contributed to the rise, the luxury market s robust growth is actually rooted in biology.

The key thing is, explained Jacobs, even though Tor is used for anonymity, it doesn't hide the fact that you're using Tor if you're not using pluggable transports.

Despite its difficulty in grasping the reality and depth of the Arab revolutionary process, Turkey is nonetheless more than ever a key player in the region.

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.

Why? While marketing has contributed to the rise, the luxury market s robust growth is actually rooted in biology.

The heavy hand of nomenklatura rule was gone, and the vision of a new life like that in the open societies of the West seemed real. Yet, in fact, things initially got worse.

Secondly, Uganda will not only achieve those Goals, but will surpass them a factor highlighted by our achievement of a human development index (HDI) rating of 0.508, terrorism in northern Uganda and other forms of interference notwithstanding.

This is an important fact.

For example, the real estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford.

After more than a half century of Israeli Palestinian conflict, translating opportunity into reality will be difficult enough without introducing new requirements that, however desirable, are not essential.

Although violence was often thought to be more common in specific groups, in fact it transcended societies, cultures, geographical regions and the passage of time.

Despite the open market rhetoric of the EU, for most citizens of the new member states free labor mobility will not be a reality for the next seven years at least.

Cavemen are frequently represented as living with dinosaurs in popular culture, even though dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years before the emergence of the human species.

While a number of steps have been taken in this direction during the past several years, the current crisis underscores that Turkey still faces a long road before that goal is fully realized.

This explains growing concern about the role of trade in development, despite the obvious fact that increased global trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades.

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.

That fact casts doubt on Karl Popper s concept of open society, which is based on the recognition that, while perfect knowledge is unattainable, we can gain a better understanding of reality by engaging in critical thinking.

Inevitably, the new course hinges in part on recognizing that economics and finance, while integral elements of all areas of the Bank s activities, are no longer the institution s main drivers.

The decision also highlighted an important fact Despite its severe limitations, the TRIPS agreement does have some (rarely used) safeguards that give developing countries a certain degree of flexibility to limit patent protection.

Despite the fact that changing from fossil fuels to green energy requires a total economic transformation, Denmark s Climate Commission claimed that the price tag would be next to nothing.

The next element is the fact that I have applied a value judgment and my value judgment is that the presence of life is better than no life.

Few are willing to accept that Syria s President Bashar al Assad, despite his abominable record, now almost certainly must be part of the solution. And the open sore of the Israel Palestine conflict plays into every other rivalry.

I urge them to accept the fact that there is a Chair's proposal.

A classic example is the way that family has replaced marriage in public discourse, with the implication that all lifestyles are equally valuable, despite the fact that most people persist in wanting to get married.

Kennedy had proved a powerful truth.

Whose truth are we going to listen to?

So the birth and development of the welfare state reflects an inescapable fact freedom and equality are both in tension and intimately linked, because both values are part and parcel of the democratic project.

After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims and the mother wore a full burqa.

The fact that Tsarnaev, despite his many requests, was not initially informed of his right to remain silent and be represented by an attorney normally a required part of any US arrest caused considerable anxiety.

He is rich but he is not happy.

There are exceptions, though.

Austen continued to work in spite of her illness.

The bottom line is that Social Security s long term funding difficulty, while real, is projected to be much smaller and much further in the future than any of the nearer, larger, and more significant fiscal problems currently facing the US government.