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Despite all of these similarities, we see huge differences in savings behavior.
Their river is dry despite the rain just having ended, and we have 150,000 people on almost permanent food aid.
When I was 19, I wrote, "I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite."
To this day, despite a loving husband, she doesn't think she's beautiful, because of a birthmark that takes up a little less than half her face.
To this day, he is a stick of TNT lit from both ends, could describe to you in detail the way the sky bends in the moment before it's about to fall, and despite an army of friends who all call him an inspiration, he remains a conversation piece between people who can't understand sometimes being drug-free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
But I want to tell them that all of this is just debris left over when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be, and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.
In fact, we applied a lot of rocket design techniques to make the car light despite having a very large battery pack.
I was me, but I was now me despite a limp, and that, I suppose, was what now made me, me.
What texting is, despite the fact that it involves the brute mechanics of something that we call writing, is fingered speech.
We've got problems all over our educational system despite Race to the Top.
Today, productivity is at an all-time high, and despite the Great Recession, it grew faster in the 2000s than it did in the 1990s, the roaring 1990s, and that was faster than the '70s or '80s.
And the challenge here is a building that will be green, that is compact despite its size and is about the human experience of travel, is about friendly, is coming back to that starting point, is very, very much about the lifestyle.
But despite our electoral mandate, the markets mistrusted us.
Europe, despite its recent failures, is the world's most successful cross-border peace experiment.
And in Kenya, it's a very different reality, and one thing that remains despite the leaps in progress and the digital revolution is the electricity problem.
Too human for some, like conservative Muslim theologians who maintain that the account of his wanting to kill himself shouldn't even be mentioned, despite the fact that it's in the earliest Islamic biographies.
I have faith, for instance, that peace in the Middle East is possible despite the ever-accumulating mass of evidence to the contrary.
In fact, most of us do, whether we're atheist or theist or anywhere in between or beyond, for that matter, what drives us is that, despite our doubts and even because of our doubts, we reject the nihilism of despair.
Despite exercising three or four hours every single day, and following the food pyramid to the letter, I'd gained a lot of weight and developed something called metabolic syndrome.
But despite that cold, you could have rain falling down on the surface of Titan.
The vast majority of its people are living in really miserable poverty despite an income per capita that's on a par with that of Portugal.
So we sent an undercover investigator in to secretly film meetings with members of the ruling elite, and the resulting footage, well, it made some people very angry, and you can see that on YouTube, but it proved what we had long suspected, because it showed how the state's chief minister, despite his later denials, used his control over land and forest licenses to enrich himself and his family.
In the case of Peru, despite a growing economy, there's malnutrition and anemia in places that export their own food, while the Amazon and our seas are being destroyed and overfished.
And despite their extremely small sizes, they have these incredible properties.
Despite all that, I tried to understand him.
The numbers of deer, because there was nothing to hunt them, had built up and built up in the Yellowstone Park, and despite efforts by humans to control them, they'd managed to reduce much of the vegetation there to almost nothing, they'd just grazed it away.
The cybercriminals I talked about, despite theft of millions of dollars, actually still haven't been arrested, and at this point possibly never will.
Most laws are national in their implementation, despite cybercrime conventions, where the Internet is borderless and international by definition.
China and the U.S., despite the recent meta-meeting in California, are locked in all kinds of anger, resentment, and rivalry for number one.
I think that Torajans socially recognize and culturally express what many of us feel to be true despite the widespread acceptance of the biomedical definition of death, and that is that our relationships with other humans, their impact on our social reality, doesn't cease with the termination of the physical processes of the body, that there's a period of transition as the relationship between the living and the dead is transformed but not ended.
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