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The law was passed in 1999, despite the formidable barricade thrown up by Elisabeth Badinter.

Despite the formidable challenges, people gathered outside the presidential palace Monday said they were hopeful that the deal could bring lasting peace to the troubled area.

Instead, when companies come up with an innovative idea, they tend to choose new names and create separate brands, despite the formidable advertising expenses involved.

These are the modest hopes of one 56-year-old man, and -- despite the formidable obstacles before Mr. Fantauzzi -- they are well within reach.

"Despite the formidable efforts of the Irish presidency, the agreement adopted goes against key measures such as large pictorial warnings, which cost nothing to governments but would better protect millions of European children," she said in a statement.

Despite the formidable artistry exerted by its actors on its realization, "Brooklyn" isn't so much a bad movie as it is a virtual self-parody of a genre — that of the minor, dignified, clean-hands art-house preciosity.

While others emote about the world's poor, the bank's researchers try to count them, despite all the formidable conceptual challenges that poses.

The disabled hulks of these carriers served the speakers at the village meetings as tangible proof of their claimed superiority over the Americans, despite all the formidable and sophisticated weaponry of the intruders.

All of this has placed huge pressure on the club's new manager David Moyes and executive vice chairman Ed Woodward to show the club is still a force to be reckoned with despite the retirement of the formidable Sir Alex Ferguson.

Nobody could knock the transport system, with its humming fleet of electric buses, or the facilities at every venue; and yet, despite this formidable organization — or perhaps as its inevitable result — the enterprise, as a whole, was beset by a looming lack of joy.

Despite these formidable players, it's scrappy Google that may make the biggest splash in mobile GPS.