The Chief Justice is wrong in the marriage case, however, because, despite the acceptance that same-sex couples have gained in much of the United States, reflected in state laws allowing them to marry, there are parts of the country where they are victims of prejudice.
Yet despite increasing acceptance that children can never be willing participants in sexual contact, and even in the face of growing media coverage and legal pursuit of offenders, it seems we are still too often failing to observe the direct line that exists between "inappropriate" behaviors and the life-shattering actions that can follow.
Despite the acceptance that pregnancy is associated with suppression of cell-mediated immune responses, the mechanisms regulating this suppression are not well defined [ 15].
Despite general acceptance that the outer lipid envelope associated with influenza viruses would make them susceptible to chlorination, no published reports specifically address the effect of chlorine on the H5N1 subtype of avian influenza.
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00627185 Despite widespread acceptance that tobacco use is the primary preventable cause of death; rates of this risky behavior have not substantially declined in the past decade [ 1].
Despite general acceptance that both of these biodiversity effects are likely to occur in natural systems, empirical studies that seek to test these mechanisms explicitly provide mixed results and have largely focused upon buffering effects at the expense of performance-enhancing effects.
Despite the general acceptance that there are such benefits from sodium intake during ultramarathons, there has been little investigation to support or challenge these ideas.
But despite the widespread acceptance that we have a problem, we still seem far from a solution.
Despite the widespread acceptance that helminthic infections influence each other directly or indirectly, little attention has been paid to helminth- Plasmodium coinfections.
Despite the common acceptance that 'poor' sagittal adult standing posture is not closely aligned with the gravitational line [ 8- 10], there is no standard threshold of deviation as a marker of 'poor posture'.
