It's more like "in spite of".
Methods that simply seek the shortest path tend to get closer to obstacles, requiring precise control of the trajectory, for example, by reducing the speed of the robots and therefore increasing the total execution time (in spite of obtaining a lower total distance traveled).
If the law "permits this execution to go forward in spite of the horrific final minutes that Irick may well experience, then we have stopped being a civilized nation and accepted barbarism".
Also, in spite of a possible execution for THREADER, the huge computing load, due to its underpowered capacity, prohibits practically its usage with this instance.
Capital punishment has been restored, and executions have again been taking place this year, in spite of opposition by the church (which had earlier helped to get the death penalty abolished).But it is in attempts to preserve the 1987 constitution that the bishops have received their biggest rebuff.
This was obviously intended as a "portrait of the artist" in the academic tradition; the seriousness of purpose is impressive in spite of the naiveté of execution.
In spite of being rapid in execution, the existing composition-based approaches have three important limitations.
"In spite of the best preparation and execution, when there are fans in the baseball park, these things can occur," he said.
In spite of the evident necessity of CTA, its execution is not straightforward since there are no definite criteria on what is differential expression.
Americans should be urged to support penal reform not in spite of their belief that some murderers deserve execution, in other words, but because of it — because both are attempts to ensure that accused criminals receive their just deserts.
He escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark and so holds the moral high ground, in spite of his never confirming an active role in the execution of the Allies' atomic bomb project.
