Despite widespread awareness of the problem, little has been done to reverse this ecological disaster.
Despite widespread condemnation among world leaders, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad still has his supporters.
Despite widespread abuse, some selective-distribution deals do benefit consumers, and others cause no harm.
Malicious hackers won access despite widespread use of security tools that aim to spot and stop intrusions.
Meanwhile, Yeung says that despite widespread speculation, he finds little evidence that Apple is working on a low-end iPhone.
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Netflix positioned itself to be a winner, and implemented the tactics to make that strategy work despite widespread skepticism.
Despite widespread scepticism, boasts the site manager, it did so in record time.
And citizens of weaker nations (such as Greece and Ireland) are accepting austerity measures, despite widespread unhappiness about cuts in government services.
Despite widespread claims of a demand slowdown due to high crude prices, Chinese oil demand rose 10.6% year over year in March.
The longtime Egyptian leader forged a number of agreements with Israel, despite widespread antipathy toward the Jewish state from others in the Arab world.
Despite widespread criticism over Sotomayor's remark, those defending her say they hope the Senate will judge her by her qualifications and not her 2001 Berkeley speech.
Despite widespread misgivings, yet another American -- Michael Foale -- was placed on Mir when astronaut Jerry Linenger's 4 month-long tour came to an end last month.
Despite widespread exposure to risk, relatively few respondents report board-level oversight of their water policies, strategies or plans (39%), and even fewer report setting concrete targets or goals (30%).
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President Bush put his chips on a date-certain vote, despite widespread doubt and opposition inside Iraq, in the region, in Europe, in the United Nations and in the United States.
Such an argument worked well in 1992, helping the Tories to increase their share of the vote and even gain a seat, despite widespread frustration with years of Tory rule.
Despite widespread concern over the size of the increase, Mr Walker refused to forecast whether there would be another increase in four months' time when the next price review takes place.
However, Spanish sports authorities have often refused to act against those affected, and many have been officially cleared despite widespread calls from Spain and abroad for a stronger stance on the issue.
In a statement, the FSA said it had acted as GE Capital Bank had not reviewed its sales procedures, despite widespread evidence which emerged in 2005 that it was failing to meet recommended sales practices.
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In our view, the persistence of strong growth in Chinese oil demand could drag 2011 oil demand another leg higher, despite widespread fears of a slowdown, with all the rate hikes, in our view, are largely unfounded.
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Mr. Capitalism ought to realize that the case for free trade does not end when BTUs enter into the conversation and that energy independence provides few economic or foreign policy advantages despite widespread belief to the contrary.
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But Mr McLaughlin said the headline from the election should be that Sinn Fein are now a force to be reckoned with - he polled 117, 643 first preference votes despite widespread speculation that the continuing search for IRA victims, known as the "disappeared", would affect his vote.
Charley Casserly, the former general manager of the Washington Redskins, said that despite widespread claims that informal bounty arrangements have existed in the league for decades, he never had any direct knowledge of their existence at any of his teams or at other teams in the league.
But despite their widespread use, the drone systems are known to have security flaws.
Yet despite the widespread expectation of impending loan-quality problems, the big banks reduced impairment charges in Q3.
But there are clear challenges, despite the widespread reach of corporations like Unilever.
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This was despite a widespread campaign to boycott the service in favour of other sites such as Flickr or Starmatic.
Despite these widespread beliefs, there is no hard evidence at this time that consuming extra vitamin C is beneficial to our health.
Despite its widespread acceptance today as an infertility treatment, these embryo techniques have never strayed far from tabloid headlines or political controversy.
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"Despite the widespread appeal of its products and their high return on investment, VMware does not seem immune to recessionary budgets, " she added.
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