Sentence examples for areas despite from inspiring English sources

Urubichá is one of Bolivia's poorest areas, despite being located in Santa Cruz, the country's most prosperous district.

The results included better-than-expected voter turnouts in New Jersey's urban areas despite heavy rain on election day.

Sapphire has many advantages over glass, but has been prohibitively expensive to produce in large areas despite abundant raw materials.

"They were way ahead of us in many areas despite their obsolete equipment and bulldozer investigative techniques.

Home prices continue to decline in some areas despite efforts by the government to revive sales through tax credits.

This is particularly true of the rural areas, despite the existence of a number of well-run mission hospitals.

Still, the report did find that the teams had made "incremental progress" in selected areas "despite continuing political and ethnic conflicts, as well as the difficult security situation".

Emigre dollars have helped prop up many poorer nations, like Haiti, where construction is booming in some areas despite a battered local economy.

Employment numbers show that the New London and Norwich areas, despite the presence of the two casinos, had more workers than jobs.

EMC's first-quarter revenue climbed 17percentto to $3.47 billion, gaining across geographic regions and all major product areas despite fears of a pullback in technology spending.

The Philippines have backed the US, and President Benigno Aquinosaid this week that they will continue to fly over the disputed areas despite Chinese warnings.