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• Mr President, first I want to congratulate Mrs Ferrer on her excellent report, but despite that I also have to record that, regrettably, we cannot vote for it this time.
• Despite that I would like firstly to thank everyone involved in producing the documents we have on the table.
• Despite that I should like on behalf of the whole House to congratulate Commissioner Kinnock on the fact that he understood the signal from Parliament and society and in the Green Paper is now following up a better management of traffic.
• - And despite that, I succumb to the beat.
• However, despite that, I will support this third-generation cooperation agreement.
• Despite that, I believe we are on the right road.
• And despite that, I am very proud of you.
• Despite that, I would love to.
• Despite that, I do have some comments to make.
• It accepts that I'm going to have to die but says, despite that, I can rise up and I can live again.
• And despite that, I did nothing.
• Despite that, I think it wise you visit Dr. Harris sooner rather than later.
• I am 23 years old, and despite that, I have saved El Empecinado's life.
• Despite that, I consider that there are no objective grounds for completely exempting one type of alcohol from excise.
• Despite that, I do have a few questions and concerns regarding this new service.
• I would like to thank my group, which is allowing me to speak despite knowing that I do not agree with their position.
• Despite that cart, I haven't practiced dentistry in five years.
• Despite the fact that I learned all that in kindergarten...
• Despite the fact that I lied to you.
• Despite the fact that I hardly know him.

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• He loves me in spite of the fact that I'm human!
• In spite of the fact that I consider ratification to be very important in itself, I still do not think it is yet possible.
• Mr President, in spite of the fact that I live a relatively long way away, in Poland, I feel that I understand entirely the concerns provoked by uncontrolled immigration into France or Italy.
• And I did all of this without missing a single day of work and in spite of the fact that I've been pregnant now for indeterminate number of months. Sue.
• I am therefore voting in favour of the proposal, in spite of the fact that I was in a minority in opposing the proposal to include terrorist attacks.
• In spite of the fact that I could really find nothing at all in the play to brighten her up...
• In spite of the fact that I accepted payment from Mr. Newberg's parents, this investigation is very clearly not one of those times.
• It all went to the people who were supposed to be the beneficiaries, in spite of the fact that I was very careful to announce to Parliament that this would have to be what we call a remote-controlled operation because of the situation there.
• Thank you very much, Mrs Ferrer. I wish you all the very best for the future, in spite of the fact that you and I will be competing in the same area in the elections.
• In spite of the fact that your people control a disproportionate amount of the world's wealth.
• In spite of the fact that he's dead.
• That, in spite of the fact that they both suffered acute dehydration and exposure.
• Thus undeclared employment of third country nationals could well grow, in spite of the fact that employers are complying with the directive's provisions.
• I call her little in spite of the fact that she's somewhat older than I am.
• In spite of the fact that most of these rats fork up $50 for the powder room like little dolls...
• In spite of the fact that Tom Paris has been abducted by the Kazon, we must continue on course for the Hemikek system.
• If it please the court, the defence has full confidence in Mr Osborne... in spite of the fact that he once was accused of stealing a horse.
• In spite of the fact that all men are males... there is no feeling so secure as having a good, reliable husband.
• In spite of the fact that he fired me, I have a genuine admiration for him.
• The Danish Social Democrats are voting against the report by Mrs Jöns, in spite of the fact that it contains a lot of good elements.