Sentence examples for Despite all expectations from inspiring English sources

Despite all expectations, the transforming driver of the College turned out to be the Scottish Enlightenment that Witherspoon had lampooned so brilliantly 15 years before, upon which his intellectual credentials rested.

And despite all expectations, it's actually more religious now.

The real privilege of the musical is in allowing these exceptional kids to flourish despite all expectations.

But despite all expectations, those two are the ones that occasionally wax sentimental; the dialogue between Burnaby and Bernhardt can blush somewhat purple.

"It was as hard as crossing the Red Sea, but in the end the sense was created, despite all expectations, that, gentlemen, history is perhaps at hand," wrote Hemi Shalev in the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

"For all of usBritish players it's one place that you'd love to perform your best and show everyone how well you can play, despite all the pressure and expectations," she said.

Above all, Gawain hated Christmas so much because, despite all the nonsense, the expectation, the commercialism, the cheap crap piled high inside every shop, the laughable adverts for something called perfume the rest of the year yet now mysteriously called parfum, despite it all, Christmas still had some inconceivable power over him.

Despite all the pre-announcements, the expectation is that the threat from UKIP necessitates a surprise or two today.

Her epic feat of will six weeks later, in Melbourne, when she again became world champion despite crashing and against all expectations, grips hardest.

Somehow or other, against all expectations and despite a conservative Supreme Court, abortion rights and affirmative action have been preserved.

So I went home hoping for the best and believing they would somehow manage to pull it off - against the odds, the obstacles and all expectations, and despite the Plath-Hughes curse that, until now, has doomed every attempt at biography.