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To speak more clearly despite a lisp, he went through his speeches with stones in his mouth.
Despite all these challenges they faced, they were trying to help their children.
Despite the urgency of a war, it still took a full 100 years for actual social inclusion to occur.
But despite this strong opposition, on the last European Parliament vote, two thirds of the representatives supported this law.
At one point, a congressional staffer said that there was no way that I was going to be confirmed by the United States Senate because of my past, despite the fact that I had been in recovery for over 20 years, and despite the fact that this job takes a little bit of knowledge around addiction.
They were encouraged to play on the fire pole despite any trepidations that they might have, and often the parents offered guidance on how to use it on their own.
But I was told this was the story of human beings, despite the fact that it only had two women in it.
I should probably say right up top that despite the hype, teenagers are not engaging in intercourse more often or at a younger age than they were 25 years ago.
I want them to see sexuality as a source of self-knowledge, creativity and communication, despite its potential risks.
CA: It's puzzling to a lot of people on the left that so many women voted for him, despite some of his comments.
Actually, maybe they're supporting him despite those, because they see something exciting.
CA: But despite the criticisms you just made of him, it does at least seem that he's listening to a surprisingly wide range of voices; it's not like everyone is coming from the same place.
And this is where the magic happened, in that classroom when all the students started taking their seats and I began to speak, despite this renewed feeling that I didn't deserve to be there, that I didn't belong there or have a right to break the silence.
But despite his success, personally and professionally, Clyde's story had a sad ending.
And I can tell you about the legislator who despite heavy lobbying directed at both sides of the aisle pushes for environmental protections.
My mind was flooded with reflections of my own infection that I had to struggle with for a year past childbirth despite having access to the best medical care, and memories of my conversation with my father, who had lost his mom to childbirth, on how he thought his life would be so different if she would have been just next to him growing up.
What I learned through this process was that these women, despite their extreme poverty, placed great value on their health and well-being.
And before that year was finished, doctors sat my husband and I down and let us know that his tumor had returned despite the most aggressive chemotherapy and radiation that they could offer him.
And despite this very shaky entry into the world of debate, I loved it.
So it was so satisfying going to these little openings despite the fact that I was kind of largely ignored or humiliated, but it was actually fun going to the openings, so I decided that I wanted to get the people in my office who had worked on these projects, get the illustrators and photographers, and I said, why don't we rent a van and drive around the five boroughs of New York and see how many we could hit at one time.
And despite the distant relation, convergent evolution has made it remarkably similar to the human brain, with as many neurons and synapses and a highly developed hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
Despite decades of evidence that light was a wave, Einstein proposed that it could, in fact, be a particle, showing that mysterious phenomena, such as the photoelectric effect, could be explained by his hypothesis.
No, they tend to be places where people have to hold their noses and rub along together despite their mutual contempt.
But despite these insights, we can't pin bipolar disorder down to a single cause.
Despite this, the disorder is controllable.
Despite decades of research, we still have no disease-modifying treatment and no cure.
And if, despite all of this, you are someday diagnosed with Alzheimer's, there are three lessons I've learned from my grandmother and the dozens of people I've come to know living with this disease.
But the better answer, I think, is that the US and the West were utterly unequipped to recognize and respond to a modern information operation, despite the fact that the US had wielded information with devastating success in an era not so long ago.
And despite this, there is no place on Earth that I would rather be than the Arctic, especially as days lengthen and spring comes.
Instead, we learned to accept both joy and sadness at the same time; to uncover beauty and purpose both despite and because we are all born and we all die.
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