Despite aims to create positive links between nature conservation and local development, PAN Parks certification seems to provide few benefits for reindeer herders and adds more pressure in terms of stricter conservation practises which threaten to reduce possibilities for free grazing (Sarkki et al.In press).
Despite aims of containing communism abroad (all while confronting the hyped communist threat at home) or bringing stability to a new world order, the Americans who deployed to Korea, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Libya, Panama, El Salvador, Lebanon, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Somalia never seemed to achieve any sense of lasting peace.
* Despite aiming to withdraw troops from Iraq in 2009, it wound up taking another two years.
Despite aiming for "zero poverty", the first month of the government has seen lay-offs of more than 10,000 state workers, many of them Peronists.
Despite aiming to make music to baffle people, Kelela – who has a jazz background, singing along to Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald – has every intention of becoming a mainstream success.
Despite aiming to regain top spot on the A-League ladder, the Glory looked anything but title contenders and struggled to find fluency with the Mariners dominating possession and looking far more dangerous going forward.
Staples also has very little debt, which means that Sycamore, despite aiming to borrow much of the money it needs to fund the buyout, will not have to overload its purchase with a crushing burden.
My Fitbit, a fancy electronic pedometer stuck in a plastic wristband that I've been wearing for a few months, tells me that yesterday I did only 12,000 steps, or around six miles (9.5km), despite aiming for 20,000.
And despite aiming to reduce carbon emissions, CCS does not qualify for the government's main green energy handout.Britain talks the talk on green technologies, but the walk is wavering.
Tony's Chocolonely is the market leader in the chocolate bar segment in the Netherlands, showing 22,5% growth over the last year (despite aiming for 50% growth).
Mitchell is inarguably intelligent, seemingly sincere, even humble, despite aiming so high, aspiring to gargantuan meritorious blocks of impressiveness, an individual whose writing is highbrow and referential but who also possesses an affable accessibility.
