Despite the limitations that certainly lead to underestimation of our estimated total economic costs of smoking and SHS exposure, we found that smoking still imposes a huge financial burden on Taiwanese society even though smoking prevalence and SHS exposure in Taiwan have declined in recent years.
I attended all three nights of Visual Japan Summit, and yet I'm still having a hard time putting my finger on exactly what made the event so special, and I can't say what made the acts so cohesive, despite the fact that they certainly didn't sound like they had anything in common.
Despite almost certainly never having heard of him – a deficiency that doesn't hold him back here – His Royal Highness should recall Bertolt Brecht's parable about the troubled king of the east who summoned his wise men and commanded them to inquire into the source of all the miseries in the world.
Clean energy and climate legislation didn't make it through the U.S. Senate this summer, despite the overwhelming scientific and economic evidence, and despite the fact that there almost certainly were more than 50 (aka, a "majority" of) Senators willing to vote for such legislation.
Despite knowing that it's almost certainly a fabrication, I will admit that it's nonetheless thrilling to watch.
Despite their certainly archaic origins, the oldest trulli you see standing today seem to have been built only in the past three or four centuries.
Despite these certainly useful recommendations, it remains questionable whether HICs will move toward this direction.
In fact, the rain delay probably helped the Reds more than the Red Sox, despite the fact that Sparky Anderson was certainly pulling his hair out in Boston.
Object recognition is one of the most important functions of the human visual system, yet one of the least understood, this despite the fact that vision is certainly the most studied function of the brain.
"It was good, wasn't it?" Potter said, despite a defeat that will almost certainly prevent St Helens from finishing top of the table for the fifth consecutive season.
And, despite a year that they would certainly admit to being among the worst in their firm's long histories, both are holding tight to their perches of power.
