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Despite the risk of infection from SARS and the WHO's warning on travels to Hong Kong, tens of thousands attended Cheung's memorial service, which was held for the public, on 7 April 2003, including celebrities and other fans, many from other parts of the world such as mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, the United States and Canada.
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Despite many decades as a leading producer, there is little risk of depletion.
Despite the risk factors associated with bicycling, cyclist have a lower overall mortality rate when compared to other groups.
Despite the apparent risk, the statistical incidence of injury in supervised training and competition is extremely low.
Despite these efforts the army is still not in a position to provide forces with the appropriate " level of training and discipline " without significant risk, according to Janes.
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Despite the increased fear of a dirty bombing attack, it is hard to assess whether the actual risk of such an event has increased significantly.
Despite the gradual expansion of medical knowledge on SIDS causes and risk factors, definitive diagnosis remains difficult ; infanticide and child abuse cases may be misdiagnosed as SIDS due to lack of evidence, and caretakers of SIDS victims are sometimes falsely accused of foul play.
Despite the realization that he could not risk annihilation of the Chinese army in a futile defense of the capital, Chiang was also well aware of the political damage he would suffer if he abandoned Nanking without a fight.
Despite the ban on military use, hollow-point bullets are one of the most common types of civilian and police ammunition, due largely to the reduced risk of bystanders being hit by over-penetrating or ricocheted bullets, and the increased speed of incapacitation.
Despite the serious risk of both physical and economic retaliation, almost half of Forrest County blacks participated, the highest turnout in the state.
Despite low effects in general and the risk of bias, the authors acknowledged that large effects of placebo interventions may occur in certain situations.
Despite this, and the fact that their color timers began flashing soon into the battle, any time limits or risk of actual death were not in evidence.
Despite their romantic interest, none of Lum's admirers would risk upsetting Lum by trying to force her and Ataru apart, although this doesn't stop them from trying to get Ataru punished from his own behavior, and interfering every time they get closer.
Despite this possibility, doctors recommended the vaccine due to the overwhelming public health benefit, because the claimed rate was very low ( one case per 310, 000 immunizations, or about 50 cases out of the 15 million immunizations each year in the United States ), and the risk of death from the disease was high ( pertussis killed thousands of Americans each year before the vaccine was introduced ).
Despite the encouraging degree of success so far, the Numbat remains at considerable risk of extinction and is classified as an endangered species.
Despite the risk of manager bias, equity investors and creditors prefer to know the market values of a firm's assets — rather than their historical costs — because current values give them better information to make decisions.
Despite the risk of fire, liquid-fuel irons were sold in U. S. rural areas up through World War II.
Despite widely publicized early successes, DBS remains a highly experimental procedure for the treatment of Tourette's, and more study is needed to determine whether long-term benefits outweigh the risk.
Despite the obvious dangers, financial risk, and discouragement of his friends, Brady is later quoted as saying " I had to go.
Despite many decades as a leading producer, there is little risk of depletion.
Despite its prevalence and cardiovascular risk implications, only 25 percent of PAD patients are undergoing treatment.
Despite the official Nazi support for the games, Diem's position as organizer was at risk, mostly because his Hochschule employed Jewish teachers and Diem's wife, Liselott, came from a Jewish family.
Despite being the most popular sporting model in Britain for most of its production life, the third generation Capri was also one of the most stolen cars in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s, being classified as " high risk " of theft in a Home Office report.
Despite and infection
Despite the availability of effective treatment and advances in medical care, approximately three to five percent of patients who become ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever die from the infection.
Despite not being closely related to the fungi, the oomycetes have developed very similar infection strategies.
Despite high rates of infection in certain areas of the world, the overall frequency of H. pylori infection is declining.
Despite their low numbers during an infection, these cells are believed to play an important role in the self-limitation of the immune system ; they have been shown to prevent the development of various auto-immune diseases.
Despite having 90 % identical sequences, these two proteins play diverging roles during the course of an infection.
Despite extensive surgery by a team of veterinarians, the tiger died of wound infection.
Despite an ear infection that made him miss an early part of the season, he regained his place and forced Michael Essien into the right-back position, effectively pushing Juliano Belletti out of the team.
Despite these apparently low numbers of infections, the true rate of infection may be higher, since most cases only cause a very mild disease, and will probably never be reported or diagnosed.
Despite the importance to differentiate between the infection by either fasciolid species, due to their distinct epidemiological, pathological and control characteristics, there is, unfortunately, neither a direct coprological ( excretion-related ) nor an indirect immunological test available for their diagnosis.
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Despite difficulties with extensive blood transfusions, which are speculated to have transmitted cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) infection, surgery was eventually successful.
Despite these differences, George goes through much of what befalls the novel's protagonist, even in sacrificing himself to the Martians, only for them to drop dead of infection.
Despite developing an infection during a tooth extraction, Tina managed to reach the IAAF ‘ A ’ standard and thus fulfilled the criteria for competing in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, where she reached the semi-finals.
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Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.
Despite generally good levels of income, we see greater price pressures than ever before -- traveling back along the chain from consumer to distributor to manufacturer.
( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.
Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.
Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.
Despite sacrificing around 10, 000 of his men, Alaric received little recognition from the Emperor.
Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.
Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.
Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.
Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.
Despite pressure from the Bernese authorities in the 16th and 17th centuries anabaptism never entirely disappeared from the Unteraargau.
Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.
Despite trailing the Nintendo Entertainment System in terms of number of units sold, the 7800 was a profitable enterprise for Atari Corp., benefiting largely from Atari ’ s name and the system's 2600 compatibility.
Despite the shared name of " Adoptionism " the Spanish Adoptionist Christology appears to have differed sharply from the Adoptionism of early Christianity.
Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his A Shropshire Lad, about his deeper sympathies.
Despite this regional organization, some bus and tram routes operated by STIB / MIVB go beyond the regional border, and some bus routes operated by TEC or De Lijn transport passengers from the Flemish or Walloon regions to the capital city.
Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.
Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.
Despite pleas from Nelson and Hamilton, King Ferdinand of Naples refused to lend his frigates to the British fleet, fearing French reprisals.
Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.
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