Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.

With all his efforts, he couldn't succeed.

In spite of all his efforts, he failed the exam.

Despite our efforts, we failed after all.

I cannot help liking him in spite of his many faults.

For all our efforts, things have not turned out better.

With all his efforts, he failed the test.

Similarly, Japan s recovery remains fragile, despite strong efforts by the government.

Despite these efforts, however, Niger's southwest remains isolated and vulnerable.

Though they're twins, they don't have many interests in common.

Despite all their efforts, it is not yet certain that their plan will get the green light.

The flood has inspired many Malaysians to help in the relief effort.

Despite the New York Times' and Vanity Fair's best efforts recently, they're not brothers.

He used to try very hard to get straight As.

I used to try really hard to get straight As.

Despite their best efforts, genetically engineered crops are the most rapidly successful agricultural innovation in history.

Although I have been studying Chinese for 2 years, there are still a lot of words I do not know.

It provided an introduction to Chinese cinema (and especially the wuxia genre) for many and increased the popularity of many earlier Chinese films.

To be fair, Russians valued chess enormously, even if it did not produce a lot of income.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

But found none yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

Our Messengers have already come to them with the clear signs then many of them thereafter commit excesses in the earth.

And assuredly there came unto them Our apostles with evidences, yet even thereafter many of them are acting on the earth extravagantly.

Our messengers came to them with clarifications, but even after that, many of them continue to commit excesses in the land.

And indeed again and again did Our Messengers come to them with clear directives yet many of them continued to commit excesses on earth.

Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals in the earth.

Our apostles certainly brought them manifest signs, yet even after that, many of them commit excesses on the earth.

Our Messengers brought them proofs then many of them thereafter commit excesses in the earth.

And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, even after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.

Our Messengers had come to them with clear authoritative evidence but many of them (Israelites) thereafter started doing wrong in the land.

Our messengers came to them with clear signs, but many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.

Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.

Unfortunately, despite an immense expenditure of energy and resources spanning a quarter century, these efforts have not yielded the desired results.

And at the same time, some oncologists work relentlessly on their patients until the last day, despite the worst prognoses.

Many of them would sign up willingly, as they intend to join as soon as possible, in spite of the euro s difficulties.

Despite the efforts of United Nations relief agencies, the carnage this summer has created an additional one million child refugees.

Unfortunately 69A (website blocking) has been upheld despite many issues, incl lack of transparency.

Countries like Iran and Venezuela work long and hard to become international pariahs.

So a tremendous fund of knowledge despite, again, that so many people told her not to do it, it was too expensive.

Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors, medieval Latin should not be confused with Ecclesiastical Latin.

I've kept my weight down even though many of my friends have gained weight as they've grown older.

Many pointed fingers to how Western countries continue to support Saudi Arabia, despite its atrocious human rights record.

Despite many problems facing the African continet, African open source innovators are not lagging behing.

In many places, efforts to protect Internet freedom have been stymied.

Unfortunately, it has to be said that this type of incident is a relatively frequent occurrence in Nigeria despite the efforts undertaken by the Nigerian authorities in their fight against crime.