Hostility to migrants remains high, even though large parts of the economy depend on migrant labour.
At the heart of the telecoms industry, internet technology continues to sweep all before it, even though large numbers of firms have gone bust and markets have collapsed.
How many churches and synagogues are there in, say, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, even though large numbers of Westerners and Asians live and work there?
But independent and government experts agree that for a variety of reasons the costs are just about certain to continue rising, even though large numbers of World War II and Korean War veterans are dying.
Last fall, two female officers went through the course as an experiment and failed, inviting questions — even though large numbers of men fail — of whether women were up to it.
Not true, the government replied: it was not sending "waste" to India, but "war equipment", and so could legally do so even though large amounts of asbestos still had to be stripped out.
The enormous expansion in overtime, as the city responds to security concerns caused by the World Trade Center attack, will have serious implications for the city's budget, even though large federal reimbursements are expected.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
In a black jacket, jeans and dark sunglasses despite the grayness of a September morning, he walks unrecognized in Paris, even though large billboards of him staring out, next to Anna Sinyakina, the actress who plays opposite him, hang in Métro stations throughout the city.
Two-thirds of Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn some or all of the health care law, even though large majorities support a few of its major aspects, according to a poll by The New York Times and CBS News.
Page A12 OPPOSITION TO HEALTH LAW Two-thirds of Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn some or all of the health care law, even though large majorities support a few of its major aspects, according to a poll by The New York Times and CBS News.
