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Despite sweeping education reform in Abu Dhabi and massive education funding in Doha, dropout rates for high school boys remain alarmingly high.

Despite sweeping US budget cuts under the sequestration, Nasa still hopes for an annual budget of $17.7bn – which will be increasingly targeted on the Mars mission.

Despite sweeping changes to GCSEs that have bedevilled so many other schools, Cotham has not only sustained its performance, but improved on it.

Somehow, despite sweeping public support for both these items, we could not find a compromise that 60 senators could agree with.

Despite sweeping action by lawmakers and the Federal Reserve to stabilize markets and banks, roughly two-thirds say the federal government has not taken adequate measures to prevent another crisis.

There is no talk of sanctions on Egypt, despite sweeping restrictions placed on opposition candidates, its thousands of political prisoners and widespread use of torture; on the contrary, Hosni Mubarak's country is the second-largest recipient of US foreign aid.

And despite the sweeping economic changes in marriage over the last 40 years, all is not equal.

And, in some cases, being physically abused, despite a sweeping federal settlement signed in 2009 to prevent it.

The United States reached a record 2 million barrels a day in late September — a rally despite Hurricane Harvey sweeping through the Gulf Coast earlier that month.

Despite his sweeping victory, Sharon had only 19 Likud members in the 120-member Knesset (parliament), but he formed a broad-based coalition government supported by 77 Knesset members from seven political parties, including Labor.

Despite the sweeping protections these laws offer to anyone who responds with deadly force to what they perceived was a grave threat, however, victims of domestic violence who kill or injure their partners before they get killed themselves appear to be no better off.