Such rates cannot be sustained, but despite reaching 26. 4 % in 2005 ( second highest GDP growth in the world in 2005 only to Equatorial Guinea ), and 2006 over 34. 6 % ( world highest ), in 2008 dropped to 10. 8 %, and dropped further to 9. 3 % in 2009.

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

Successful teams often combine both styles, with a speedy runner or two complementing hitters with power, such as the 2005 White Sox, who despite playing " small ball ", still hit 200 home runs that season.

The main issue, the flight of general Gotovina, however, remained unsolved and despite the agreement on an accession negotiation framework, the negotiations did not begin in March 2005.

Things were no better in 2005, despite a career year from first baseman Derrek Lee and the emergence of closer Ryan Dempster.

In June 2005, with the results of the election still unclear, a group of university students protested these alleged discrepancies, encouraged by supporters of the Coalition for Unity opposition party, despite a ban on protests imposed by the government.

In June 2005, with the results of the election still unclear, a group of opposition supporters protested these alleged discrepancies despite a one month ban on protests imposed by the government.

Instead, the complete opposite occurs whereby members of the public believe in and highly value the opinion of medical professionals or of scientific discoveries ( Fuller: 2005: 144 ), despite not understanding it.

* European Petroleum Survey Group ( EPSG ) ( which despite being officially disbanded in 2005 continues to refine a well tested set of Geodetic Parameters )

In August 2005, despite the arguments for the existence of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, questions about the evidence remained.

Yovani Gallardo won 17 games, the most by a Brewer since 2005, Zack Greinke won 16 games despite missing one month, both Shawn Marcum and Randy Wolf won 13 games, and number five starter Chris Narveson won 11 games.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

The Lunar series, despite the relatively narrow circulation the two titles on the Mega-CD received, was critically acclaimed and became a cult classic, with both games receiving remakes for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the late ' 90s ; and a prequel to the series for the Nintendo DS in 2005.

Faure was sworn in on 7 February 2005, despite international criticism of the succession.

The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released.

In March 2005, the US opened negotiations on a free trade agreement and despite recent increasing depreciation of Gulf currencies, the UAE dirham remains pegged to the plunging dollar.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

However, when TSN updated their list for a new book in 2005, despite having surpassed 400 and 500 home runs, Griffey remained at Number 93.

The 2005 – 06 season opened with high hopes for the Magic despite not being able to add first round draft pick Vasquez.

In the middle of June 2005, the banner was given a cosmetic upgrade, despite the graphics used since July 2003 are still used.

The Norwegians failed to qualify in 2003, losing out to Deportivo La Coruña, but managed to qualify again in 2004 after beating Maccabi Haifa, and in 2005 – despite the disappointing season – they qualified for the tenth time after winning 4 – 3 against Steaua București.

The legacy of Waldo School will carry on in the community despite its closing in 2005.

In 2005, a California federal court ruled that a group alleging that anthroposophy is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes did not provide any legally admissible evidence in support of this view ; the case is under appeal.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

In April 2005, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces declared that it " withdrew its support " for the President.

But, the work of Stephen Wurm ( 1982 ) and Malcolm Ross ( 2005 ) has provided considerable support for his once-radical idea that these languages form a single genetic unit.

In 2005, against the backdrop of renewed UK government interest in nuclear power, Lovelock again publicly announced his support for nuclear energy, stating, " I am a Green, and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy ".

Syria was charged by Arab League with disentangling the combatants and restoring calm from the time of the second Lebanese civil war ( which began in 1975 ) until 2005 when the Lebanese revolted against the Syrian presence and caused the withdrawal of Syrian troops with the support of the International community.

On 14 February 2005, Lesotho announced that Ireland is the largest bilateral donor with financial support in excess of M70 million in each of the past three years.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

In 2005 Tom D. Dillehay and his team announced the discovery of three irrigation canals that were 5400 years old, and a possible fourth that is 6700 years old, all in the Zaña Valley in northern Peru, evidence of community activity to support improved agriculture at a much earlier date than previously believed.

Beard and Gloag support this position, citing Jameson's theory that " the radical changes of musical styles and languages throughout the 1960s now seen as a reflection of postmodernism " ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 142 ; see also Harvey 1990 ).

As of September 2005, support for ReBirth has been discontinued by Propellerhead software, and the software is now available online as a free download.

Since ascending to the throne in 2005, King Abdullah has followed a more activist foreign policy and has continued to push-back on US policies which are unpopular in Saudi Arabia ( for example, refusing to provide material assistance to support the new Iraqi government ).

* Browsers based on the Gecko layout engine ( such as Firefox, Flock, Camino, and SeaMonkey ) all have had incomplete support for the SVG 1. 1 Full specification since 2005.

The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic " Fairytale of New York " on 19 December, which went straight in at No. 3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity.

In 2005, a U. S. Federal Court ruled that intelligent design is a religious argument and is not science, and was being used to give pseudoscientific support for creationism, the religious belief in a designer.

The university ’ s support for renewable energy is made possible through a student fee-funded sustainability program established in 2005.

* Members united in early support of U. S. action to prevent continued atrocies in Darfur through the proposed Darfur Accountability Act of 2005.

FreeBSD gained read-only support for XFS in December 2005 and in June 2006 experimental write support was introduced ; however this is supposed to be used only as an aid in migration from Linux, not to be used as a " main " filesystem.

In late 2005, the World Bank, which had extended Yemen a four-year US $ 2. 3 billion economic support package in October 2002 together with other bilateral and multilateral lenders, announced that as a consequence of Yemen ’ s failure to implement significant reforms it would reduce financial aid by one-third over the period July 2005 through July 2008.

In 2005, the Bank issued the first loan to Iraq in in 30 years to support education and the restoration of schools.