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Despite their best efforts, genetically engineered crops are the most rapidly successful agricultural innovation in history.

In fact, only one out of these 306 grandparents had died of TB, despite the fact that in the early 20th century, TB caused up to 20 percent of deaths in large Eastern European cities.

Despite her prolific writing, teaching and activism, de Beauvoir struggled to be taken seriously by her male peers.

It's in the middle of Soho, in this working class neighborhood, this little girl becomes sick and it turns out that the cesspool, that they still continue to have, despite the Nuisances Act, bordered on an extremely popular water pump, local watering hole that was well known for the best water in all of Soho, that all the residents from Soho and the surrounding neighborhoods would go to.

But despite this, despite the evidence connecting terrorism and counterfeiting, we do go on buying them, increasing the demand to the point where there's even a store in Turkey called "I Love Genuine Fakes."

I suddenly realized that despite their own problems that had brought them to the emergency room, they had all come together to root for this baby.

And, despite the best of evidence-based treatments, we also found that for about 40 percent of the kids with anxiety, they remained ill throughout the course of the time.

Because skills develop with exposure over time, repeated exposure to everyday situations that kids encounter: self-soothing skills or the ability to calm oneself down when upset; problem-solving skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts with others; delay of gratification, or the ability to keep your efforts going despite the fact that you have to wait over time to see what happens.

Despite this constraint, the Pan-African economy is booming.

And he was expressing his frustration that the aid market had bypassed low-income farmers altogether, despite the fact that 200 million farmers alone in India make under a dollar a day.

Despite his very difficult start in life, he has always been very intelligent, he has always been very funny.

Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria.

What if my roommate knew about Nollywood, full of innovative people making films despite great technical odds, films so popular that they really are the best example of Nigerians consuming what they produce?

Every time I am home I am confronted with the usual sources of irritation for most Nigerians: our failed infrastructure, our failed government, but also by the incredible resilience of people who thrive despite the government, rather than because of it.

We hail a blockbuster film about a suicidal wheelchair user, despite the fact that actual wheelchair users tell us that stereotype is unfair and damaging.

Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time.

Income has gone up for a majority of the world's population, despite the population going up by about two billion people over this period.

What Diop is adding to this picture is this crucial element, which is the football under his arm, and by doing that, Diop is actually touching at our hero worship culture of African football stars, who unfortunately, despite their fame, their immense talent, and their royalty status, they are still invisible.

But despite its very small weight, enough of it is emitted into the atmosphere every year to equal the weight of all the people on the planet.

So soft power is something that really emerges partly because of governments, but partly despite governments.

But these movies are made to be understood despite such handicaps, and she has a great time in the song and the dance and the action.

So, despite the fact that I'm going to talk to you about an object that's supermassive, and I'm going to get to what that really means in a moment, it has no finite size.

But nonetheless, despite the hostility, firefighters left the vehicle and successfully fought the fire.

It turns out you can't do fusion on a table top despite all that cold fusion nonsense.

And, sure enough, with all the other pressures on the river, like sand mining, for example, very, very heavy cultivation all the way down to the river's edge, not allowing the animals to breed anymore, we're looking at even more problems building up for the gharial, despite the early good intentions.

But despite all of this, I sometimes wonder if the way we think about emotions is becoming impoverished.

And one of them is that despite all our accomplishments, a billion people go to bed hungry in this world every day.

And I blamed immigrants for taking jobs from white Americans, completely neglecting the fact that my parents were hardworking immigrants who struggled to survive, despite not getting help from anybody else.

I wish to share three lessons today, three lessons from water-poor countries and how they survived and even thrived despite their water crisis.

What intrigues me most is how women are doing this, despite a set of paradoxes that are both frustrating and fascinating.

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