But for every gain we have made, enormous difficulties still remain.

Despite these reforms, many inflexibilities remain. For example, shop opening hours still must comply with highly restrictive rules.

Despite these reforms, many inflexibilities remain.

Yet, despite all this, Ortega has yet to diminish Lewites s ability to rally the masses.

Despite the beauty of the island, one can still see the destruction caused by typhoon Haiyan everywhere.

Despite an international campaign calling for his release, Badawi is still in prison today.

But, despite everything I have endured, I remain hopeful that change is possible.

Despite all his faults, everybody likes him.

Although the violence was escalating, the death toll was still in the thousands, not tens of thousands.

Despite the many challenges that remain, there has been much recent progress in Africa.

Despite the sadness sown by the earthquake, a subtle beauty exists in the crumbling 19th century buildings.

However, despite all these national, subregional and regional initiatives, we still have not solved the problem.

Despite the disappointments, private insurance is still the best way to deal with possible future disasters.

Thanks to them, despite the blighted economy of the lost decade, Japanese income is still higher than it is in Europe.

Despite the recent cuts, America s defense budget is still five times higher than China s.

Thanks to them, despite the blighted economy of the  lost decade, Japanese income is still higher than it is in Europe.

Retired but very active, Julie defines herself as a storyteller and photographer.

The bill is sitting in committee.

Despite the sometimes downright pornographic on screen writhing of Bollywood starlets, India is still a deeply conservative society.

Despite all this, the police do not leave.

Despite all his wealth, he is stingy.

Despite his errors everyone respects him.

I did that in spite of all the difficulties.

But, although banking and finance have taken center stage, the EU s constitutional problem refuses to go away.

Skirmishes, however, still occur on the front line despite a 1994 ceasefire agreement.

Despite the current unfavorable situation, the path to stabilizing the Middle East still leads through joint economic projects.

Despite all this, comprehensive education would be unimaginable in Afghanistan just ten years ago, blogger writes.

Whatever the facts, both the panic and the conspiracy theories will likely smolder for a while.

The proposed measure is still pending in Congress despite the pledge of the president to pass the bill in 2010.

Anna is still receiving notifications about the social media routine of TV Rain, despite having logged out of all active sessions of Telegram.

Despite recent challenges, Pakistan put vaccinators back on the job in 28 districts, where 12 million children needed to be reached.

In spite of all his efforts, he failed the exam.

Despite all of this and other we registered...

Despite all his setbacks, he remains an optimist.

Even after all my objections, she went home.

Tom did it in spite of all the difficulties.

Sadly, while on one hand we are happy, on the other we are not.

Despite a recovery in asset prices in many countries and the deceleration of negative growth, unemployment is high and rising.

Even though we have had good results in the past few years, we are still in the nascent stages of this struggle.

Amidst all of this, the HB56's consequences are becoming apparent.

With all her merits she was not proud.

Although the worst was avoided, much pain remains.

And it happened so fast in the United States, however, that even just last month Jon Stewart said this Jon Stewart Where is polio still active?

Although the first report on Chernobyl appeared in Pravda on April 28, the situation was far from clear.

We shouldn t, but increasingly it appears that we will have to endure another one nonetheless. A failure of either Europe or the US to return to robust growth would be bad for the global economy.