Despite the crisis, BMW was careful not to cut its annual intake of 1, 000 apprentices.
But despite the crisis being most acute in the city, no London boroughs have used those powers.
But despite the Crisis, only 8.2% of all the companies surveyed were actively searching for new foreign partners.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's Multimedia Super Corridor project remains on track despite the Crisis, although progress has been slowed.
In Jakarta, for example, the minimum wage rose by 50% in real terms between 1997 and 2002, despite the crisis.
Despite the crisis, the team is thriving - they have just notched up a 3-0 whitewash in the one-day series in Pakistan.
Thanks to those attractions, many European nations that aren't yet in the EU, such as Serbia, remain keen on joining, despite the crisis in the euro zone.
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Today, analysts say there is no reason from a business standpoint for the company to cut the dividend, as few people are questioning BP's financial strength despite the crisis brought on by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
No matter what critics may say, Europe, including its central and Eastern parts and despite the crisis, is now a vast, stable but also the richest economic area where people enjoy much better living conditions than those of most other parts of the world.
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The program also contributed to a major expansion of new wind power capacity in 2009, despite the economic crisis underway. 10, 000 MW of new wind power capacity, more than double the capacity forecast at the start that year, came online in 2009.
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More significantly, this growth has accelerated in the past two years despite the financial crisis.
She said despite the financial crisis, the United States hopes to expand trade with countries in the region.
Despite the Korean crisis, Asia is still seen as an area of positive gains and co-operation for the Obama administration.
This implies that the long-term rate of poverty reduction slightly over one percentage point a year continued unabated in 2008-10, despite the dual crisis.
As a Peruvian, I am proud that we are one of the few countries that have continued growth despite the world crisis.
It is not surprising that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have supported Qaddafi's regime despite the severe crisis of legitimacy it is now facing.
Despite the debt crisis in Europe, the online travel market in the region grew by 9% as compared to 4% in US during 2011-12.
Despite the financial crisis of 2008, which has seriously tarnished the reputation of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, Mr Kotkin predicts that the Anglosphere will remain powerful for some time.
But aside from negative surprises from peripheral Europe, on the data side of things, investors are hoping to see U.S. exporters increased their shipments in April despite the European crisis.
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Mr Cameron said, despite the eurozone crisis and his party's coalition with the Lib Dems, he would "continue to work for a different, more flexible and less onerous position for Britain within the EU".
But despite the debt crisis, economic contraction in many European Union countries and instability in the European banking system, experts at Jones Lang LaSalle say confidence in the hotel real-estate sector has risen since October 2011.
Yet despite the looming crisis, for a decade the government has shirked doing what is clearly necessary, just as it has failed to implement key tax reforms, cut public borrowing or open the retail sector to competition.
In an effort to protect the unemployment insurance that stood as the sole support for the families of millions of unemployed Americans who were the victims of the Great Recession, the President was forced to cave in to the GOP and allow the Bush cuts to continue despite the escalating crisis of our national debt.
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Indeed, despite the ongoing economic crisis, it still relies on solid economic foundations.
Despite these differences the crisis in Greece could still dent Britain's recovery.
Despite the eurozone debt crisis, the top five were all European.
He said that despite the global economic crisis, emissions remained high and there was a feeling that economic growth was "totally aligned to the need for burning fossil fuels".
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Now, she says, she is treated with a new respect, partly because levels of default on small loans are next to nothing, despite the Russian financial crisis of 1998.
Despite the ongoing economic crisis, Mrs Merkel remains popular in Germany, but opinion polls have suggested the CDU and FDP may not be able to garner enough votes to work together.
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