Despite doing everything we can to persuade her, she refuses to accept it and we have to do it under restraint.
Bingham is appalled, on two grounds: first, his footloose habits would have to stop, and, second, he does, despite everything, retain some principles — the least you can offer, when you're destroying a human being, is to do it face to face.
Suffice it to say that they gain a sense of fulfillment from educating and inspiring young people, which they still manage to do despite everything.
He insists he doesn't regret it, despite everything that is happening now.
And why do we, despite everything, keep believing and insisting that there is a difference, and that the difference matters?
The danger -- if we don't, despite everything, still find a way to erect a peace -- is that the only energy left will be with those who want to undermine everything".
If the west wishes today to underline the differences that surely exist between its intervention now and earlier ones, a precondition for persuasiveness is to familiarise ourselves with what we have forgotten, to understand why this history does matter despite everything that the Gaddafis of the world do with it, and will matter more and more the longer the regime hangs on.
Yet poetry is still being read and written, and we do, despite everything that's happened, continue going to the opera even if we can no longer pretend we will be better people for it.
Stock markets leapt across the Continent when news of the apparent Greek reversal emerged, as expectations shot up that the two sides would do a deal despite everything.
But I do believe that despite everything that's the same, there is a part of us, our unique integration of our soul, our personality, our life experience, that's never been here before.
Others began identifying what they were able to do despite everything, and things they could enjoy and afford.
