Thankfully, there are also many places where trust and collaboration have been sustained in spite of the pressures under which both the VCS and local government are struggling.
In spite of the pressures of his important duties, he writes, he stood by his wife and did not abandon her.
However, from her visits to Belfast, she's observed the healing process, seeing how young people are becoming more progressive and are willing to go against the past, in spite of the pressures from parents and grandparents.
After all, she is the one who, in spite of the pressures, has the position and the authority to combine the factors.
It has successfully retained a relatively high percentage of its girls in school in spite of the pressures of society and of poverty - pressures that can convince parents to take their daughters out of school at age 11 or 12 to work as domestic servants, help with housework, or to be married prematurely.
In contrast to Africa, where bushmeat hunting and habitat degradation threaten to deplete NHP populations over the next decades, some synanthropic primate populations in Asia have actually thrived, and continue to be sustainable, in spite of the pressures presented by increasing human populations.
In spite of the pressure on foreign investors, Russia's booming economy is luring companies here.
In spite of the pressure, you have "to sit back, to look at all the information available, process it, and talk to other people".
In the vacuum chamber during the deposition process, the specific humidity (defined as the ratio of mass of water vapor to unit mass of dry air) is kept constant in spite of the pressure decrease.
Interestingly, tech companies have been much more willing to open up conference calls to individuals, in spite of the pressure on them to curry favor with analysts in order to keep stock valuations high.
Considering that the interlayer charge of our smectites is relatively low compared to montmorillonites, and the fact that smectites found in the San Andreas Fault (2.7-km depth) contain two layers of water in spite of the pressure of 800 bar (Schleicher et al. 2013), we can reasonably assume (at pressures and temperatures considered in this study) a maximum of two layers of water in saponites.
