But we must also recognize that 9/11 was not a figment of anyone's imagination and that, despite our having made impressive progress against them, terrorist groups and individuals are working hard to do us deadly harm.
Despite our efforts made to organize a prolonged study, we succeeded in organizing an intervention period with duration of 15 months.
12 October 2012 Entwistle said: "Despite our efforts to make clear our belief that the decision to drop the Newsnight investigation was taken properly for sound editorial reasons people have continued to speculate".
Another possibility is that messages, despite our efforts of making them rich and endogenous, might still be perceived as 'bare'bare
Despite our efforts in making patients healthy and going home, critical illness has a mortality, in Danish ICUs, of 10 to 12%.
Despite our attempts to make an easy classification task, the raters disagreed on one of the video pairs and agreed on the "wrong" video in two of the four pairs.
Despite our efforts to make change happen, fixing the air pollution problem is a herculean task.
Despite our efforts to make it as easy as possible to respond to our PhenX questionnaires, we ultimately overestimated the number of participants from which we would be able to acquire the added PhenX data.
Second, despite our attempts to make the study task as similar as possible to the authentic task, we used a laboratory-based observational design in a difficult diagnostic area for a single medical specialty.
Firstly, despite our efforts to make the record review as objective as possible by including a panel of experts, there is still the possibility of subjectivity as we rely on the reviewers clinical knowledge and their judgment.
