Both Lusimbo and Ghoshal are keen to point out that despite past hostilities, life continues.
Despite past efforts at diversification, including via acquisition, Intel remains highly dependent on the PC market.
After months of debate, the French Cabinet took on the proposal despite past declarations of support from Jospin for the technology's potential benefits in treating and curing disease.
She has called for constructive dialogue rather than a repeat of recent rioting against poor services, and has been promised by ministers that despite past attempts to muddy her name, she will be allowed to do her job, whatever her investigations unearth.
Sir Digby once called the unions "increasingly irrelevant", but when he was appointed by Mr Brown he said, despite past criticism of the government, it would be wrong to pass up the opportunity to help put business at the heart of a new administration.
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Moreover, financial markets remain in positive territory for the year, despite the past week's gyrations.
Despite its past as a Hutu rebel group, the movement claims to have rapidly recruited Tutsis since becoming a political party.
And yet despite all of this, despite the bitterness of the past, despite the difficulties of the present, despite the uncertainty of the future, Dr. King held fast to his dream.
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Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have managed to move higher over the past week despite closing lower for nearly half of the past few trading days.
Despite his unattractive past, Garcia quickly built Ugly Duckling into the top seller and financer of used cars for people with lousy credit histories.
Its occupancy rate hovers around 44% despite its glittering past.
Despite that violent past, Barton has carved out a reputation as one of football's more cerebral thinkers, building up a Twitter audience of 1.7 million followers thanks to his musings on philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and lyrics from songs of The Smiths.
But in the end, despite Sanford's past being an issue for some voters, she was defeated.
He said the city was beginning to "find its feet, " despite its troubled recent past.
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House prices in Scotland have dipped slightly over the past year despite more homes changing hands, according to official statistics.
It was those valuable assets that allowed her to hold steady this past year despite the economic turmoil facing her country.
Mr. Musk also has recruited a crop of young, hard-charging engineers, attracted by the company's freewheeling culture and past accomplishments despite long odds.
Why has house-price inflation been so robust over the past year despite a recession or at least a sharp slowdown in most economies?
She said it was an "appropriate donation" despite concerns over the past activities of Mr Taylor's company, Vitol, in places like Iraq and Serbia.
Despite not being taken past 30 on serve the Scot still required a tie-break but he remained ice cool, breaking immediately and consolidating with a huge ace.
Of course, Obama won reelection over Mitt Romney this past November despite the sour state of the economy, for a host of reasons which included running a far more organized and coordinated ground game.
Biden said he hoped there is still a path forward to allow the White House and congressional leaders to reach agreement on a major deficit reduction deal -- one that has so far eluded them despite optimism in the past.
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Despite the bleakness of the past few days, Georgians around the world held out hope.
More significantly, this growth has accelerated in the past two years despite the financial crisis.
Despite the court's past successes, however, the prosecution will have to work hard to win this one.
Despite the upheavals of the past two years, this sentiment has not evaporated.
Bonds clearly is the focus of major-league baseballs investigation into past abuses, despite denials from Commissioner Bud Selig's office.
Despite its no-tax past, Amazon now supports nationwide sales tax rules, while Overstock stopped its New York affiliate program.
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Despite the carnage of the past two years, investors still haven't shaken their infatuation with certain Wall Street darlings.
The Philippines' dominant phone company, PLDT, could not supply more phones despite repeated requests in the past ten years.
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