So the visitor returns thankful for much of what he has seen, and, in spite of everything, an optimist about what his country might be.

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Overall, this year's Oscars were - in spite of everything, in spite of a terrible national economy - I thought it was a perfectly acceptable ceremony.

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Yet some companies are doing fine in spite of everything.

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In spite of everything, she's still in love with Otho.

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In spite of everything, the American economy has been growing somewhat faster than most of the big industrial economies, and most forecasters still reckon on a reasonably healthy pace of expansion this year.

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In spite of everything, his life was happy.

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However, KKR and Apollo Global Management are publicly-listed private equity firms that apparently had not been singled out before for this practice in spite of public disclosures about everything else.

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