It's more like "in spite of".
Because China, India, and Brazil will not enact any significant environmentalist measures (in spite of China now consuming more energy than the USA), and that will further increase their cost advantage over American enterprises.
Participation rates are very high and drop-out rates are negligible in spite of the time consuming battery.
Such attributes naturally make it a favorite resort of Japanese teen-agers, who are the most avid consumers in a country where, since the end of the Second World War and in spite of a ten-year recession, consuming is a crucial part of the national identity.
Currently, developing and testing different mechanistic kinetic models are time consuming, and in spite of the effort, the performance of the resulting candidate models can be virtually the same.
This is in spite of the fact that the time-consuming work of peer review is done by scientific experts on an unpaid and voluntary basis.
Blood culture is still the gold standard for definitive diagnosis of neonatal sepsis, in spite of some drawbacks of blood cultures as being time consuming, low sensitivity, and possible contamination especially with commensal CoNS that could be produced.
This problem may probably be reduced improving dose conformity and dose homogeneity within the irradiated area and in close proximity of the skin surface in spite of the fact that complex techniques as IMRT are time consuming and more expensive.
In spite of the long hours and the all-consuming nature of our work, we generally managed to do our jobs and do them well.
So far the methods of CoHV-1 detection included mainly histopathological examinations which is dedicated only to experienced pathologists, serum neutralisation tests, DNA endonuclease digestion and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) which in spite of their usefulness are laborious and time-consuming [ 7, 9, 10, 13].
