Logging, intensive farming and other exploitation of its natural resources, including rare herbs and rich soils that sustain their fertility despite the harshness of Russian winters, have made this place ripe for the urban invaders.
"And despite the harshness of the laws people were still using drugs,selling drugs, going to jail, coming out and doing it again and again," the judge says.
Despite the harshness of the environment, we adapt surprisingly well to our new way of life, but it's also because the Nenets are so hospitable, treating us like their daughters, making sure we are warm and well fed at all times.
And despite the harshness of "deport first, appeal later" and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishing of Offenders Act 2012 stripping many FNOs of the right to legal representation, a new removals policy is being planned with satellite tracking devices introduced for every offender subject to deportation.
Despite their harshness, periodically inundated areas may in some cases be prone to invasion.
Despite a surface harshness, his films were compassionate in the tradition of his fellow Frenchman, Jean Renoir.
His father had a mutt named Bill, who never became disciplined, despite the father's harshness.
Despite of all the harshness and aggressiveness of Grove's management style and the resulting norms and practices across the company, Intel during the Grove-era did not have a fear-based culture.
Several people confided to me that they loved the story of Jean Valjean, the persecuted convict, not despite but because of its harshness.
Later, when Butler's mother is crumpling under the stress of caring for her husband at home, an angel arrives in the form of Toni, who helps her several days a week, and whom Butler calls "one of two and a half million street saints across the country who, despite poor pay and the harshness of their own lives, draw on unseen wells of compassion and emotional skill for families like mine".
