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despite English
Meaning despite meaning
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concessive: translated in English as 'although, even though, despite the fact that': 'She was saving her money, even though she was a wealthy woman'.
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What words indicate that something is true in spite of facts or problems that make it seem unlikely?
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Simple sentences
Despite the concerns, the weather was magnificent.
Despite being midnight, the children are still up.
Tom won the race despite his handicap.
Despite the importance of sleep, its purpose is a mystery.
Despite Trang's constant affirmations of love, Spenser is still afraid someday she will fall out of love with him.
He was still mad about the accident despite his wife's conciliatory words.
Despite having lived near the sea, she still cannot swim.
He remained poor despite being a hard worker.
Despite the seriousness of his illness, Mr Robinson is in good spirits.
I love him despite his faults.
Despite a shortage of steel, industrial output has increased by five percent.
He had faults, but despite that I loved him.
Despite his errors everyone respects him.
Despite being rich, he is not happy.
Despite criticism, the award procedure will not change.
He came, despite the heavy snowfall.
Despite all his faults, everybody likes him.
Despite all his wealth, he is stingy.
Despite all his fame, he is not happy.
Despite being fascinated with English, many Japanese don't even try to study it.
Normally, a guy who reads light novels despite not being a kid anymore is a retard, don't you think?
Despite his young age, he did a very good job.
Despite all his setbacks, he remains an optimist.
Despite the government's protection, he was the victim of an assassination attempt which killed him.
Despite everything she said to me, I can't stop thinking about her.
Movie subtitles
Despite Declan's illness, he was a strong man, full of life even in death.
Despite his Santa costume for the parade?
Despite appearances I'm still officially in charge.
Aching with hunger, despite his warnings, Ulysses' companions feed on the meat of the sacred bulls.
But after another 10 years, the tail,.. despite the packs of bark of palm, had not come out yet,..
For fatigue, the sailors must leave the chase,.. despite the desperation of Farandola.
Despite appearances, the Marquis and Marquise de Tergall have temporary but very serious financial difficulties.
Nathan the Jew has a Christian child despite his beliefs.
Despite the financial influence of Count Muffat, Nana, who attempted to play a distinguished role, has just suffered a resounding failure.
Despite of our insistence.
The devoted doctor Lesenn is the youngest islanders' best friend, despite his 67 years.
Despite the misery in which the Hurdanos live their moral and religious sense is the same as anywhere else in the world.
And, perhaps, a cross section of you. despite the forced civility of this review of our Party. will return with courageous hearts to the days in which it was difficult to be a National Socialist.
The disease is contagious. Moreover, it is a terrible sight, and the odour is unbearable despite all measures.
Despite this promise, France kept him prisoner - all these years. - I know, I know.
So you refuse to abandon the notion of subjugating humans, despite the probable outcome?
Despite possessing physical powers far superior to that of common man, you cannot escape the yoke of emotion, your weak point as cyborgs.
Just look at me and consider that never again will you be lonely and unloved despite your ugliness.
Despite giving you my word, lm going to tell him this.
Despite the fact that Helen and us were waiting for you at the christening?
And that would upset me. For despite his savage way with me. I'm very fond of him.
But despite your immense intellect, it's amazing how silly you can be.
Very true! - Despite looking like you.
Despite this precaution, however, I got wind of his find.
Do you know that despite all your great efforts your coasts are inadequately defended, especially one coast, and there we shall strike swiftly, terribly, tomorrow at sunrise.
But despite these problems, the flora and fauna, the lives of people of Tibet need to be documented.
Despite the concentrated feedstuffs they visibly got thinner.
We need to conquer and climb them despite already being exhausted.
You just find a way to make it work despite whatever comes up. Hey, Lydia.
Despite that, are you just going to leave me alone?
I had no luck despite my position.
Every effort should be made to quiet the nerves. of those children who still remain in London despite the evacuation. which will continue until a late hour this evening.
Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull, on whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, killing their fruit with frowns?
How shall I be absolute if, when I wish something to be so, it doesn't happen, despite my absolute will to the contrary?
Despite my efforts, I can't imagine a play or a film of which I would be the author and in which you would not perform.
Despite your indisposition, Your Highness?
Despite that. Photographs may now be taken.
And despite that, she wanted me to believe. there was something between us.
News and current affairs
Indeed, America's current-account position strengthened despite the dollar's appreciation in the face of safe-haven demand.
His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.
Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.
Despite many past promises of a cleanup, Ogoniland remains in environmental agony, impoverished and sickened by the oil industry.
And, as we have seen in many countries' efforts to ameliorate the crisis, the non-cooperative protectionist response is much more likely to be adopted - despite wide recognition that it is highly destructive - when aggregate demand is in short supply.
Despite increasing incomes, Russians are less educated and less healthy than they were when Putin came to power; they still die at a shockingly young age.
In this, too, it has not really been successful, despite the huge amount of money that it put on the table.
Many other rich countries' debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150-year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.
Then, despite massive US pressure, Turkey's parliament unexpectedly rejected the government's proposal to allow US troops in Turkey to launch an invasion from Turkish territory.
Yet, despite all the difficulties, the situation in Afghanistan, unlike that in Iraq, is not hopeless.
Despite the way it often looks to outsiders, debates in Israel about the future of the occupied territories have never been confined to hawks and doves.
On the French, English, and Portuguese teams, too, it is the young players that have shone - despite the continuing presence of Zidane, Beckham, and Figo.
Despite some legitimate concerns about safety, it is hard to overstate the overwhelming benefits.
But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.
Yet, history is unfair, and the US, despite its greater responsibility for today's global crisis, may emerge in better shape than most countries from the morass.
These are some of the poorest households in the world, and, ironically, some of the hungriest as well, despite being food producers.
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.
Despite the sometimes downright pornographic on-screen writhing of Bollywood starlets, India is still a deeply conservative society.
Despite a recovery in asset prices in many countries and the deceleration of negative growth, unemployment is high and rising.
Unfortunately, despite past stimulus, growth is still tepid, and it is increasingly difficult to find sensible new spending that can pay off in the short run.
One by one, Western governments fell in line behind the renminbi, despite its practical limitations.
Despite her charisma, Park is neither a Sarah Palin nor an Eva Peron.