despite

Example Sentences

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By choosing a career as an elected official despite his mother’s warnings, Newsom ultimately picked his father’s world and accomplished his father’s dream of taking office.

From Los Angeles Times

They set out with hope, despite a seven-year stretch in which the God's Crossing has not appeared once.

From Barron's

While producers were confident the film could have been shot in Turkey despite the sensitive subject matter, Germany was chosen to illustrate the fact that threats to artistic freedom are universal.

From Barron's

On the day AFP spoke with her, she made it to her office, despite bitterly cold weather outside.

From Barron's

Anderson plays the children's mother, whose presence intrudes into the family's lives despite her apparently having been killed by wolves.

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