But, despite the administrators' recent efforts, their reluctance, or inability, to close some notorious loopholes has given the voting process the reputation of, as the Australian recently wrote, "a lobbying exercise worthy of a House of Cards plot".
Despite dedicated administrators such as NIGMS's Poodry and John Ruffin, who heads NIH's National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bailar says that "a lot of senior managers view these programs as an obligation and don't give them the attention they deserve".
Despite the administrators' stance, lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender (LGBT) students and allies continued to campaign against the restaurant.
Despite system administrators' efforts to maintain critical health systems, symptoms of data slowdown cannot be detected in time and actions cannot be taken quickly enough to prevent performance decrease or system failure.
Some of the most highly promoted missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or perhaps even canceled under the agency's new budget, despite its administrator's vow to Congress six months ago that not "one thin dime" would be taken from space science to pay for President Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
Despite the administrator's bid to keep the club running the match against the Broncos this weekend could still be in jeopardy as hooker Diskin says that the players have been locked out of the training facilities.
I was on a jury, in fact, that despite the administrator's objection nominated only two books, unable to agree on a third that we felt to be on a par with the two we were recommending.
Despite these challenges, administrators said it was the Class of 2017 that decided all seniors would apply to college.
Christophers and Perez said that despite meetings with administrators last spring, they have been disappointed by Princeton's response to their concerns.
For three months as an unpaid volunteer, she rewrote the company's job descriptions as part of its accreditation requirement -- but despite approaching hospital administrators about six possible job openings, she got no offers.
