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  • Several European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel said they wanted the summit to go ahead, notwitstanding Mugabe's possible attendance.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • In the US we have 13,000 administrative districts who seem to think each of them is a unique entity and any whiff of national coordination, butterfly ballots and aborted chads notwitstanding, is shot down as unconstitutional Federal overreach, usually on partisan grounds.

    Firedoglake » Hack the Vote 2006

  • As most of you will know by now, I take pride in my job, and in how I perform it the occasional mechanical breakdown and the low tipping habits of one of my steady customers notwitstanding.

    Pizza with the Guys - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • apocraphal and isolated incidents of zelotry notwitstanding.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Pet Peeve–DC Rabbis Blathering About Politics: 2007

  • “Love Guru”s dismal box office notwitstanding, I’d like to see this guy blow up.

    'Weeds' star to debut new show on YouTube | EW.com 2008

  • Whose entreaties although wee shewed that they were vngodlie, affirming that our God would not subiect him selfe to anie such praiers and requestes of mê: that in deede all thinges haue beene and were to be done according to his good pleasure as he had ordained: ãd that we to shew ourselues his true seruãts ought rather to make petition for the contrarie, that they with them might liue together with vs, bee made partakers of his truth & serue him in righteousnes; but notwitstanding in such sort, that wee referre that as all other thinges, to bee done according to his diuine will & pleasure, ãd as by his wisedome he had ordained to be best.

    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590

  • Emmons remarks: "The swamp soils of North Carolina show a greater capacity for endurance than the prairie soils of Illinois, notwitstanding the annual crops are somewhat less per acre; and, on the score of location, we are unable to see that the Illinois soils have the preference.

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

  • That the pef put in his answer, insisting there was nothing contained in the said petition that called for the interposition of the Assembly, or in which they ought or could give any relief; notwitstanding which and with - out any hearing the Assembly resolved that relief might and ought to be had in the Probates in such like cases by a new grant of administration, exhibiting an inventory of the whole estate, and a distribution made according to the rules of law upon the whole.

    Collections 1792

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