despite the fact

As a member of the National Guard, he was supposed to protect President Joe Biden's inauguration, despite the fact that he denies the outcome of the 2020 election.

Despite the fact that it is more than halfway through the 2024-25 financial year, no pay deal for teachers in Northern Ireland has yet been agreed.

It’s an intensely thrilling story, despite the fact that it’s almost completely people speaking inside closed rooms.

The easiest gift Trump can give this group is some kind of commission to look into “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S.—something Trump has vaguely promised, despite the fact that Christians are the country’s religious majority.

In other words, though it wouldn’t have mattered in the overall election, the war might have cost the Democrats Michigan’s 15 electoral votes—despite the fact that Trump’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, was, and always has been tilted far more sharply toward Israel.