• Despite complaints from motorists and consumer organisations, car prices for virtually identical models can vary greatly across Europe.

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  • Despite complaints by some observers, election officials said the delay was caused by a zealous effort to carefully cross check each result.

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  • Mr Staines has refused to reveal how the messages found their way to him, despite complaints from Mr Draper that they were private.

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  • The City of Lincoln Council said it may reinstate a one-way system during the city's next annual Christmas market, despite complaints from local traders.

    BBC: Lincoln Christmas market: One-way system 'not ruled out'

  • He defended tough security measures Russian officials put in place at sporting events despite complaints by some foreign officials and athletes who consider them excessive.

    NPR: Russia To Increase Security At Athletics Event

  • They also voted to approve central government funding to town halls for 2012-13, despite complaints from Labour that ministers had distributed cuts to local councils in a "fundamentally unfair way".

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  • He made it clear again in testimony to Congress that he doesn't intend to repeat those mistakes, despite complaints from some regional Fed bank presidents that he is doing too much.

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  • Ofqual has held an inquiry into the problems but stands by the gradings despite complaints that pupils who sat the papers in January got higher grades than those who sat them in June.

    BBC: English GCSE: Senior exam board figure quits AQA

  • Despite their complaints, snow-removal people were fired up about the prospect of a huge storm.

    WSJ: Storm Is Mixed Blessing for Snow-Removal Firms

  • Despite three complaints that EPIC has issued against perceived privacy violations by Google Buzz and Facebook's recent data-sharing moves--one released Tuesday--the FTC hasn't taken any action against the companies.

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  • Mr Madoff's investment business was overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but it failed to carry out any examinations despite receiving complaints from investors and rivals since as long ago as the late 1990s.

    ECONOMIST: The Madoff affair

  • Party machines are out there trying to mobilise their voters but there are also some high-profile independent candidates who are in with a shout, despite their complaints of a lack of official funding for a mail shot.

    BBC: Will you vote for the police and crime commissioners?

  • Despite the complaints, the plan looks balanced.

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  • Despite all the complaints, average commuting time remained stable through the 1990s, but the average distance travelled grew.

    ECONOMIST: Road-pricing in California

  • Despite exporters' complaints, the devaluations elsewhere are not putting them under intolerable pain.

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  • The story noted that despite numerous customer complaints, job terminations and a six-week suspension by the New York Stock Exchange in 1995 for unauthorized customer trading, Mandell was still in the securities business.

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  • Still, despite these small complaints, I have to say that after having stayed at just about every major hotel in town, Nobu Hotel is absolutely one of my favorites and I would gladly stay there again.

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  • Despite the usual complaints about government heavy-handedness from Republicans and business lobbyists, the House bill contains none of the expected attempts to impose detailed limits on the size or structure of pay that would merit such alarm.

    ECONOMIST: Regulating executive compensation

  • Chief executive Campbell Robb said the charity believed the number of so-called "rogue landlords" was still underestimated despite the increase in complaints.

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  • So despite lots of quiet complaints about the process, it gradually took on a life of its own and embedded complexity into the organization.

    FORBES: Are you a complexity creator?

  • Despite this, it added, complaints about TalkTalk remained above the industry average at 0.35 for every 1, 000 subscribers.

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  • Despite being inundated with nearly 1, 000 complaints, the then South West Water Authority (SWWA) insisted the water was safe to drink and advised customers to disguise the "foul" taste by mixing it with orange juice to make it more palatable.

    BBC: Carole Cross

  • Despite this mishandling, we believe that the vociferous complaints might not reflect the sentiments of the broader Netflix customer base.

    FORBES: Netflix Slump Overdone Despite Tone Deaf CEO

  • Despite frequent media outrage and a steady stream of complaints, these types of fees continue to show up on hotel bills.

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  • Data regarding millions of nationwide brokerage firm customer complaints is not disclosed to the public, despite the fact that state securities regulators, the SEC and National Association of Securities Dealers, each keep such records.

    FORBES: Misdeeds of Stockbrokerages Under-reported (July 1, 2002)

  • Despite this, passengers were more active than ever in voicing their complaints.

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  • Despite the demonstrations and poor poll ratings, the number of civilian complaints about the police fell to 4, 903 in 1999, the lowest since 1994.

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  • Mr Hanlon said he was "particularly concerned" that complaints against one company - npower - had continued to rise despite warnings from energywatch.

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  • Howard Beales, who led the FTC's consumer-protection bureau from 2001 to 2004, said the recent jump in complaints against debt collectors should have triggered an increase in enforcement actions, despite the agency's limited resources.

    WSJ: Consumers Cry Foul Over Debt Collectors

  • Despite this warning Co-op put in place a policy that was likely to lead to complaints not being dealt with properly during the legal proceedings.

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