Despite public health advances, and despite the imprecision of measures, an association between the incidence of elevated blood lead and achievement in New York counties is still apparent, not attributable to confounding by income.
Despite the array of measures, inflation in the eurozone has been stubbornly low.
But stocks tumbled over the summer, despite a series of measures by officials in Beijing aimed at calming market jitters.
Despite the introduction of measures on construction waste reduction, outcomes are not always satisfactory.
Despite a raft of measures from the government to boost growth, consumers are stubbornly guarding their purses.
Despite this plethora of measures, only 8 have included preterm infants and only 2 have included Extremely Low Gestational Age (ELGA; infants < 28 weeks GA) in their development.
A combination of "incompetent management and inadequate procedures" meant that signal sighting committees persistently failed to meet, while, despite a number of measures being mooted, "very little" had been achieved to improve safety.
Despite the emergence of measures that "close" the accommodation, the theoretical openness is the major difference from prisons, prisoner-of-war camps, or closed refugee camps.
Many young people in South Korea say they don't expect nongovernment job prospects to improve anytime soon despite a host of measures announced by South Korean President Moon Jae-in nearly a year ago to boost employment, including government stipends to companies.
Despite a variety of measures to cut costs and raise revenues at museums and other cultural institutions across the country, many continue to struggle to stabilize their finances, especially smaller and mid-sized institutions.
