Sentence examples for despite History from inspiring English sources

Margaret, the old queen and mother of the murdered Henry VI, was brought into this drama by Shakespeare despite history and chronology.

It is about the courage of Justice Thomas to affirm himself and his fellow citizens despite history and to do the right thing despite the idolatry that has diverted our contemporary jurisprudence into "the splitting of the political middle".

"And what were their qualifying groups like?" Iceland, Northern Ireland and Albania exceeded all expectations at Euro 2016, after all three qualified from the fifth seeding pot despite history not looking too favourable.

Despite history being rewritten by the bitter dispossessed mafia-type businessmen who were thrown out of Cuba, Castro's revolution deposed the worst dictator in Latin America who was hellbent on turning Cuba into the world's leading supplier of prostitutes (11,500 in Havana alone), drugs and gambling opportunities.

Despite history's pattern of further gains, technical analysts on Wall Street said the rally this week might be an exception to the trend.

But despite history favouring his men, Cook is eager to guard against complacency after experiencing major slip-ups on the road to Ashes victories in 2009 and 2010-11.

The rule allowed for exceptions, however, and advisers such as John Podesta, Robert Holleyman and Jim Hock all worked in his White House despite histories with influential Washington thinktanks and firms.

Despite all the history, despite all the national heroes of generations past, the Chinese have never known a badminton artist like Super Dan.

Despite that history, Japan is resource poor.

Guess who won, despite his history of embarrassingly low scores?

The Mets hired Butler despite his history with catcher Mike Piazza.