Despite health, welfare and education reforms, he has struggled to map out an overarching theme for his administration.
The Times is concerned that, despite the welfare cuts, "the chancellor has had to push back by a year the moment Britain returns to the black" which "cannot be postponed further".
Despite the welfare squeeze and the failure to persuade Osborne for the second time in a year to back the mansion tax, the Liberal Democrat leadership embraced the autumn statement as a joint enterprise.
Despite the "welfare village" name, these displaced Tamils of northern Sri Lanka receive no state handouts or government help, so instead Mr Uthayaswriyan, now the deputy leader of the village council, and his people have to scratch a living from labouring or other manual work.
Despite social welfare reforms that have lifted millions out of poverty, Ms Rousseff has been lambasted for Brazil's economic woes, including the country's slide into recession.
Let us not forget the so-called Reagan Democrats, typified by the Macomb County, Michigan working-class voters who stayed with Reagan despite deindustrialization, welfare cuts, and military aggression.
It is conceivable that enhanced performance characteristics (i.e. faster lap time and wins) may be responsible for the maintenance of hereditary ERS within the Standardbred population despite the welfare implications of the disorder and the time lost to training that we report.
Despite differences in welfare systems, rates of lone parenthood are remarkably similar across the west.
Lane Kenworthy of the University of Arizona argues in his blog that the Nordic countries are as innovative as the United States, despite their stronger welfare state.
