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• r  despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession)

• The gazillion dollars spent on David Beckham notwithstanding, the idea of sports making Americans aware of the larger world is something of a contradiction in terms.
• Airmen, notwithstanding their origins as a rib of the Army, wished to be called simply airmen.
• Gertrude Stein notwithstanding, there has been only one truly "lost generation" this century.

• however
• nevertheless
• withal
• still
• yet
• all the same
• even so
• nonetheless

News & Articles

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• Oracle Releases Java EE 7 with Eye on HTML5 Development
  Delays and dropped features notwithstanding, the release is "expansive," according to one analyst
  June 12, 2013 - CIO
• Apple's WWDC: What To Expect
  Apple (AAPL) is set to hold its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today. Since Apple has not released a new product (new iPod Touch notwithstanding) since October 2012, there's increased speculation about what new products, software, and services the technology titan might unveil.
  June 10, 2013 - Forbes
• Apple unveils iWork for iCloud
  iWork has been a traditional software suite ever since it first launched (the brief availability of iWork.com notwithstanding), but Apple is bringing it to the web in earnest today by revealing iWork for iCloud. The suite includes Keynote, Numbers and Pages, and each of the web apps preserves many of the same real-time editing features as its iOS and Mac counterparts. The collection officially ...
  June 10, 2013 - Engadget

Quotes

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• Sepp Blatter in The Zimbabwean
  Political interference will be dealt with by FIFA notwithstanding what kind of interference and what is the size of the country,Blatter told the media in Johannesburg last Wednesday, in reaction to the news from Nigeria .
• Frank Blake in Forbes
  We're making investments, notwithstanding the downturn,Blake said. "I think that's absolutely the right thing to do for the business. It's going to lead to long-term success."
• Don McKinnon in The Age
  CMAG agreed that notwithstanding some progress by the Pakistan government since its last meeting [on November 12], the situation in Pakistan continued to represent a serious violation of the Commonwealth's fundamental values,McKinnon said.