Even Apple, though, swiftly bowed to the realities of the PC market, creating its iTunes software and service for dominant Windows computers.
Talk that the International Monetary Fund was putting together a bailout package for Italy also helped, even though that was swiftly denied by the IMF, as did a bounce on Wall Street, where traders were encouraged by strong retail sales at the weekend following Thanksgiving.
"They simply needed more time to understand it all because we managed to arrest suspects swiftly, even though it seemed impossible at the beginning," he was reported to have said.
Serbian commentators said the arrest had been accomplished swiftly, even though the newly elected government in Serbia was made up of an unlikely union between the moderate Democrats of President Boris Tadic and the Socialist Party of Mr. Milosevic, the Serbian leader, which went to war with the West in the 1990s but is now intent on bringing Serbia back into the Western fold.
Yet even though Mr. Bush has moved swiftly to control the damage, appointing a committee to investigate the agency and taking pains to praise its progress since he took office, an analysis of state records show that the system remains severely overburdened -- more than the agency and the governor have acknowledged.
Plans for a sequel based on Collins's second novel in the trilogy, Catching Fire, were swiftly announced, even though director Gary Ross walked away from the project, citing time constraints.
From end to end the film is quite swiftly paced, even though, one will eventually realize, there's not a whole heck of a lot happening in terms of plot.
Even though England took five wickets swiftly it seemed faintly absurd that India's quartet of spinners - two professionals, two amateurs - should be matched only by England's semi-professional Ian Blackwell, who at county level is more feared for his batting than his bowling.
After the police advised that it was "indecent" under the Protection of Children Act 1978, the gallery swiftly removed it, even though it had been on show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York without any complaint.
Mr Song overcame the bots even though they could act much more swiftly than any human could.
Even though the method is essentially designed to swiftly obtain factual information about other criminal justice systems, questions aimed to obtain the personal opinion of the person filling out the survey could also be included.
