Despite clear directives from the country's beleaguered elections commissioner, state-controlled news media continued to favor the president overwhelmingly.
A German pharmacist had to wait 18 months for approval of her qualifications in France, despite Union directives that provided for the automatic recognition of her license.
When I visited a Wal-Mart in Germantown, Md., on Thursday, I even found Maxim and FHM still on the shelves, despite the directives from corporate headquarters.
Despite issuing directives to followers in all mediums, the founder and manifestor of futurism remained a writer – and it's perhaps on this subject that his exhortations are most interesting.
The champions were seen celebrating their win with, among others, Rihanna, who was pictured holding the trophy, despite Fifa directives saying that only winners of the tournament and heads of state can touch it.
Despite EU directives calling for member states to both end the burning of all recyclable materials and achieve recycling rates of 50percentthethe current average is 25percentt) by 2020, public subsidies support the expansion of incineration capacity in many European countries.
Despite EU directives aimed at liberalising postal services in Europe, it was always open to interpretation what form this took – and while most European governments protected their state run postal services for a period to allow for adjustment, only the British government adopted this particular option, choosing to subsidise the private mail companies at the Royal Mail's expense.
Despite those directives, Daniel Bogden, a US district attorney based in Las Vegas, recently sent a letter to the tribe, reminding it that the sale, transport, and use of marijuana is still illegal under federal law.
37 Despite policy directives aimed at early diagnosis, 38 this study and similar work finds Aboriginal people still experiencing late diagnosis.
