These sorts of restrictions, however, should remain safe from challenge, despite this week's ruling.
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Despite this week's rate cut, it is too early for Mr Brown to claim that he has rescued Britain from boom and bust.
So the recent fall in share prices (still down by 15% from their peak, despite this week's rally) has actually come as a bit of a relief.
Despite this week's deal, national rivalries still run deep.
Fortunately for Mr Milosevic, though, there are important issues on which the West and Russia remain at odds, despite this week's visit to Washington by Viktor Chernomyrdin, acting as President Boris Yeltsin's Kosovo envoy.
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The growth in sales last month came despite figures released this week which suggested a sharp drop in footfall on the high street in Scotland.
Despite the news this week, female cadets interviewed after the ceremony said they felt secure during their four years at the academy on the Hudson River.
Despite a postponement this week, Grigory Pasko, a journalist accused of treason for leaking details of the navy's dumping of nuclear waste, is due for trial in Vladivostock in June.
Ancelotti has also had to contend with the shock sacking of his trusted assistant Ray Wilkins, something which has clearly troubled him despite his insistence this week that he has no intention of resigning.
All this despite a slew of government interventions this week, including synchronized 50-basis-point interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and several other central banks, including China's.
Despite the three decisions this week, the expansion of protections is not over yet.
Diminished hope for a substantial agreement in Washington depressed stock indexes on Wall Street this week despite other encouraging economic news.
Despite disappointing trade figures this week, in the year to November export volumes (excluding oil and erratic items) were 7.1% higher than a year before.
Nobody seems to have a big problem with Pitino getting the attention this week despite his small stake in Goldencents, co-owned by Josh Kaplan, Glen Sorgenstein and Dave Kenney.
The Ashton Kutcher comedy was an exception to the downward trend, climbing 6 percent this week despite its "Big Bang" lead-in getting a bit softer in the adult demo.
Those who see higher prices next week remain confident the trend for gold continues to be higher, despite the sharp break in values this week.
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This week, despite New Labour's avowed indifference to the plight of old industries in trouble, the agriculture minister, Nick Brown, promised farmers some respite.
Despite all the fuss made this week by Bayer over its antibiotic Cipro, selling antibiotics to the government for stockpiling doesn't seem to be a great business.
This helped the Istanbul stockmarket to recover this week, despite the news that gdp had shrunk by a whopping 13.8% in the year to the first quarter of 2009.
Turmoil has engulfed the French camp this week but despite Les Bleus' off-field problems, Parreira said the hosts' victory over the 2006 finalists was a clear sign of Bafana Bafana's improvement.
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Minutes later, Hughes was on hand again to block a powerful drive by Didier Drogba - who was selected despite being diagnosed with malaria this week, but was clearly off the pace.
This week, despite the prospect of strong corporate earnings, the indexes remain trapped in a trading range, partially due to investor concerns that pending government actions are going to take a blunt axe to global economic growth.
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MS. PSAKI: And just one thing to add -- obviously the President took three days off the campaign trail earlier this week, despite the fact that the election is next Tuesday, to make sure a robust response effort was set up.
Despite the stock falling a dollar this week, the consensus is that the company has performed well.
Despite a short-term bounce this week, we think stocks are still heading down.
And despite the share-price jump this week, recent market edginess will usefully remind investors about risk and so deter reckless investment.
It was a less happy afternoon for Moody's back-row colleague Martin Corry, despite finishing on the winning side this week in Cardiff.
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Despite the flurry of direct talks this week between Snowe and White House staff, Snowe aides insist she remains engaged in the "Gang of Six" bipartisan talks that have been going on for months.
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