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The government yesterday reasserted parents' right to smack their children despite overwhelming opposition from charities.

Meanwhile, a US company ignores the backlash and pushes forward with a mine despite overwhelming opposition.

To much surprise, the referendum passed, 51 to 49percentt, despite overwhelming opposition in the places that still had rent control.

But he will be a hollow symbol if he ends the white lock on the governor's mansion despite overwhelming opposition from the state's blacks.

At present at many American firms, directors can be elected despite overwhelming opposition if no other candidates win more votes something that is quite common because it is hard to get onto the ballot in the first place.

However, last month in his Autumn Statement - and on one of the busiest days in UK politics - the chancellor quietly put out a change to the system, despite overwhelming opposition.

The conservative Popular Party, which Aznar headed, was leading the Socialists by four and a half points in the polls, despite the overwhelming opposition of the Spanish population to the country's participation in the war in Iraq.

Their group, Justice for Health, claims that the health secretary has acted ultra vires (beyond his powers) by choosing to force new terms and conditions on 54,000 trainee medics in England despite their overwhelming opposition.

But now, with our own national security not directly threatened and despite the overwhelming opposition of most people and governments in the world, the United States seems determined to carry out military and diplomatic action that is almost unprecedented in the history of civilized nations.

When Mr. McCain's proposal passed Congress despite the overwhelming opposition of the Republican leadership, Mr. Bush signed it, but underscored his lack of enthusiasm by doing it with no ceremony and without Mr. McCain or any of the bill's other main sponsors by his side.

Despite the overwhelming opposition in this country to horse slaughter, this despicable act has been legal since a federal ban on horse meat inspection funding was lifted in the Agriculture Appropriations bill that passed last year.