The Governors of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey have taken stands favorable to land preservation in spite of their commitments as fiscal conservatives.
My wife is a superb cook, which she manages to be in spite of heavy commitments as a general practitioner.
The use of quantitative objectives, operational targets and optimisation approaches is also infrequent, in spite of repeated commitments of European forest ministers (MCPFE) to establish coherent, comprehensive and representative forest conservation networks.
Yet in spite of political commitments to 0.7%, the so-called "golden years" of development now seems to have given way to a darker, meaner era, one in which our politicians demand reciprocal benefits, for our own ends.
(Gursky had flown in the previous day for the party, in spite of other commitments. "It's a really bad time, right before Christmas," he said, admitting that the ride to Düsseldorf made things easier).
Apple is still a largely white and male company in spite of public commitments to improve diversity within its ranks, and Smith's exit will leave its 19-person senior leadership without a black person among them.
This is in spite of the commitments made as part of the NHS Plan NHS Plann for England, 2000) to increase the proportion of NHS patients treated in the context of randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
In spite of this commitment, however, such measures were not immediately forthcoming.
This growth took place not in spite of our commitment to the CRA, but because of it.
The blood and tears spilled on the beach at Sousse on Friday seem to have caught many off guard – including the Tunisian authorities, in spite of their commitment to making the country safe for tourists.
