Companies are learning they can increase profits as a result of their CSR efforts, not despite of them.

公司逐渐认识到履行CSR的结果能提高利润，不再忽视CSR。

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It is clear: we must tell the story of our asthma, not despite the fact that people are dying from it, but because they are not.

这很清楚：我们必须要讲述我们的哮喘的故事，不是因为“尽管人们正在死于哮喘”，而是因为人们并不死于哮喘。

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Our society does not—despite rhetoric to the contrary—put much value on raising children.

尽管与此相反，有很多华丽的辞藻，但是我们的社会并没有把养育孩子看得很重要。

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Despite their name, they are not whales.

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So, Peter the Great, despite his dramatic expansion of the Russian empire, does not get this outlet on the Black Sea.

所以,彼得大帝,虽然为俄帝国的扩张立下汗马功劳,仍旧没能夺取黑海的入海口

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They're not stories about pious people whose actions are always exemplary and whose lives should be models for our own, despite what Sunday School curricula will often turn them into.

不是讲那些应该拿来做榜样的,圣人的典范故事,只有主日学校会把他们讲成那样。

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Yet to a large degree the students succeeded--not despite the turmoil, but because of it.

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And he illustrates a profound truth, that we are great not despite our failings, but including them.

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That way we can finally make rugby a national game, which it's not despite what people think.

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