Despite its overall performance rating, the report said that progress had been made in most other priority areas.

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Despite this progress, the company is struggling to restore its credibility after numerous setbacks.

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Scotland still lags behind the rest of Europe in its provision of insulin pumps to treat diabetes despite recent progress, a Tory MSP has said.

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Despite the cuts to its hydrogen program, DOE has been making progress on those obstacles as well.

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Despite the integration progress and the fact that HP hasn't warned on its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in October, shares of HP have been similarly hammered.

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So far, despite a much weaker exchange rate this year, the UK has made little progress in addressing its external imbalances.

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Almost any significant progress Italy has made in recent decades toward overhauling its economy has been achieved despite its politicians, whether structural adjustments required under EU obligations or measures introduced by technocratic governments in response to specific crises.

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More men have landed on the moon than have reached the deepest part of our own planet and despite the progress I wrote about earlier, we are a still struggling to recognize that this planet and all its wonder should be valued above all else.

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But even I knew that, despite all of the admirable progress that was made under Saakashvili, the country remained extremely poor and unequal and that its unemployment rate was shockingly high.

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