Sentence examples for Despite the governing from inspiring English sources

Platini has claimed Blatter told him at the time that Fifa could not afford to pay him, despite the governing body making £78m over that four-year cycle, and did not want to break its wage structure.

The Frenchman has claimed Blatter told him at the time that Fifa could not afford to pay him, despite the governing body making £78m over that four-year cycle, and did not want to break its wage structure.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People said in a statement that the attack was meant to show that insurrection remained a valid strategy despite the governing party's defeat in presidential voting.

It did so despite the governing constitution specifically providing for birthright citizenship.

Now the leader of the centrist Hatnuah party, Ms Livni has suggested she could join the governing coalition, despite a history of clashes with Mr Netanyahu.

Downhills is facing being forced by Michael Gove, the education secretary, to become a privately sponsored academy, despite fierce opposition from parents, the governing body and staff.

A week before elections, gunfights between rival gangs loyal to the main political parties erupted in parts of the capital, Kingston, despite a peace pact between the governing People's National Party and the opposition Jamaica Labor Party.

The answer why not, I fear, is that Labour is too executive-minded, too fearful of investing in parliament as an institution and too fearful of thorough change in the governing system – despite the way it is being subverted and shrunk by the Cameron government.

That seems symbolic of the fracturing of the rugby league family that occurred with the nastiness involved in the initial Super League plans of spring 1995, and it is one which has not been properly repaired despite the best efforts of the governing body for the last decade.

But that was rejected by the governing body despite claims that if the vote goes through later it could cause "great disunity" within the church.

Greece's government emerged bloodied but alive following a key vote in parliament, which saw lawmakers overwhelmingly approve new creditor-demanded reforms, despite a clear rift among the governing left-wing Syriza party and thousands of people protesting outside.