Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.

Despite movement toward democratic reform, power remains in the hands of a northern ethnic oligarchy.

Despite Filipino and Indonedian foreign domestic helpers being the ethnic minorities, there are over 273, 609 foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, accounting for 4 % of the entire population.

Despite the recent war's divisions along ethnic lines, Liberia remains a multiethnic and multicultural country.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite its excellent performance, the garrison's food supply had been requisitioned for earlier offensives, a relief expedition was stalled by the weather, ethnic rivalries flared up between the defending soldiers and a breakout attempt failed.

Despite Hitler's abolition of Poland and his policy of considering Poles sub-human, a few thousand ethnic Poles did volunteer to be German collaborators in the Granatowa policja.

Despite official persecution, some local leaders and minority ethnic practices survived in remote regions.

Despite its nominal submission to the Merovingians, the ethnic make-up of new realm Aquitaine wasn ´ t Frankish, but Gallo-Roman north of the Garonne and main towns and Basque, especially south of the Garonne.

Despite denials of such motivation, both factions made a strong appeal to their respective ethnic constituencies.

Despite Nazi propaganda presenting all of the regions annexed as possessing significant German populations that wanted reunification with Germany, the Reich's statistics of late 1939 show that only 31, 000 out of 994, 092 people in the annexed Polish western territories were ethnic Germans.

Despite this, the silent final S has never been universal, and other ethnic and historical influences tend to argue over it.

Despite his Mainlander background, Soong proved to be a popular politician among all ethnic groups on Taiwan, in part because he was one of the first KMT politicians to attempt to use the Taiwanese language in political and formal occasions.

Despite his sentiments on ethnic politics in Russia, Rubinstein returned there occasionally to visit friends and family.

Despite strong evidence for the effectiveness of the jigsaw classroom, the strategy was not widely used ( arguably because of strong attitudes existing outside of the schools, which still resisted the notion that racial and ethnic minority groups are equal to Whites and, similarly, should be integrated into schools ).

Despite their loyalty, the ethnic group faced economic and political adversity at hands of the white population during times of economic hardship for whites.

" Despite Julio's friendliness, Fred often makes crude ethnic jokes about Julio and openly wishes he would return to Puerto Rico, despite the fact that Julio is actually from New York City.

Despite whatever value judgments one might have about it, pride in one's community, one's ethnic group membership, one's nation and the like, are forms of prejudice.

Despite the loss of their language, the ethnic group remains distinct and has left a lasting impression on the American West.

Despite migrationary trends, St Kilda retains a small number of ethnic groups although like much of inner Melbourne, the community is largely multicultural.

Despite being the front-runner at the campaign's start and garnering strong support from the city's ethnic press, Hall wound up a distant third behind the winner, Miller, and runner-up John Tory.

Despite wide acknowledgement of Dacian influence, there is little support for the view that the people of this region were ethnic Dacians.

Despite the political tensions between Republic of Macedonia, with ethnic Macedonians on one side and Greece on the other, Novakis released several CD titles with traditional ethnic Macedonian music in Greece.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite their low diversity, hyenas are unique and vital components to most African and some Asian ecosystems.

Despite the advantages of such an adaptation, zoos are cautioned that parthenogenesis may be detrimental to genetic diversity.

Despite " all this technological diversity, there must be one which is the perfect choice for you ".

Despite such harsh conditions, this anoxic and sulphidic environment is teeming with microbial life, both chemosynthetic prokaryotes that are primary producers, and a broad diversity of eukaryotic heterotrophs at the next trophic level.

Despite the limited diversity of species, the number of individuals is large.

Despite their diversity of form, crustaceans are united by the special larval form known as the nauplius.

Despite that diversity of opinion, he concludes that the result upon the practitioner is generally perceived as a positive one.

Despite its relatively small size, Tunisia has great environmental diversity due to its north-south extent.

Despite the black rats tendency to displace native species, it can also aid in increasing species population numbers and maintaining species diversity.

Despite the diversity in morphology seen between groups, improving foraging efficiency has been the main driver in the evolution in these lineages.

Despite the diversity of organisms containing plastids, the morphology, biochemistry, genomic organisation, and molecular phylogeny of plastid RNAs and proteins suggest a single origin of all extant plastids – although this theory is still debated.

Despite the diversity in themes, the style of the games was fairly consistent.

Despite such a prohibition, depictions of human beings do occur Islamic art, such as that of the Mughals, demonstrating a strong diversity in popular interpretation over the pre-modern period.

Despite such diversity of theologic perspectives, such experts disagree about the particulars of their deities and of revealed Truth.

Despite the general perception that American culture is characterized more by diversity than by homogeneity, the American ideology of cultural homogeneity implies an American mindset that because Eurocentric cultures are superior to others, people with different cultures should conform to the dominant monocultural canon and norms.

Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.

Despite the functional diversity associated with the role of COO, there are some common functions the COOs usually perform:

Despite the great diversity in Israeli music today, a corpus of canonical songs has developed, known as " Shirei Eretz Yisrael " — " Songs of the Land of Israel " or " Zemer ivri ".

Despite their adaptations for weathering extreme adversity, habitat destruction and hunting have resulted in lemur populations declining sharply, and their diversity has diminished, with the recent extinction of at least 17 species in eight genera, known collectively as the subfossil lemurs.

Despite its current lack of diversity, the Rhynchocephalia at one time included a wide array of genera in several families, and represents a lineage stretching back to the Mesozoic Era.

Despite such geographical diversity, the people of Ngāpuhi maintain their shared history and self-identity.

Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they “ share an almost common culture ”.

Despite their diversity, the Chu people were united by a common respect for nature, the supernatural, their heritage and loyalty to their ruling house and nobility, epitomized by the famed Chu statesman-poet Qu Yuan and the Songs of Chu.