It is intense: despite the occasional joke and pause for applause, she lacks the easy bonhomie of former president Lula.
Clinton quickly apologized, but the backlash from the LGBT community was intense, despite efforts by the campaign to reassure them that she had made an honest error.
Political and media pressure on Obama to launch air strikes against Isis and then expand the war into Syria has been intense, despite much scepticism on Capitol Hill of Obama's war strategy.
The focus on technology as a driver of performance improvement in clinical trials is intense, but despite years of valiant efforts, study execution remains far from optimal.
Despite being under intense pressure, the full-back managed to rifle the ball into touch, which gave his side possession 20 metres from the St Helens line.
Despite being very intense and unusual, the range of experiences somehow felt very familiar; because I've experienced them before (as a child?), or because they formed an inherent part of everyday experience (or dreams?) that I do not normally have conscious access to, but am somehow aware of.
"Despite being under intense scrutiny since Michael Brown was killed, the police and courts in the St . Louisregion are still trying to squeeze money out of the very residents who are least able to pay," Karin Martin, a professor of public management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said via email.
Ulster's defence held firm despite being put under intense pressure and they turned defence into attack near the end of the first half to notch their second try, Humphreys making a half-break before passing inside to Cave to scorch over under the posts for his second of the night.
Israeli journalist Abraham Rabinovich, in his account of the Yom Kippur War, writes that despite being involved in intense fighting for several days, the Egyptian and Israeli soldiers in the Ismailia sector who survived the battle were among the first to reconcile, even when the first ceasefire was broken in the south and fighting resumed.
Despite being the object of intense scrutiny in the last few years, prosecutors appear to have been unable to build a case directly implicating him in insider trading.
Del Carmen says that he and his colleagues initially refused, despite being summoned to an intense meeting with ministry of health bureaucrats, but he did eventually carry out around a dozen sterilizations in another clinic after witnessing patients being operated on in conditions that put them at risk.
