Sentence examples for despite alarm from inspiring English sources

Despite alarm over the recent rate of hangings and beheadings in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, the international trend is for countries to abandon executions.

Fiery Cross is among seven Chinese-held reefs in the Spratly chain in the South China Sea which are being transformed into artificial islands despite alarm from other claimants to the strategic waterway and growing criticism from Washington.

In an echo of a debate that raged in the United States in the 1980s, the government faces growing criticism for doing almost nothing to rein in the yen, despite alarm that the record-high currency is dealing crippling blows to the country's once all-important export machine.

As for changing the balance of power, the People's Liberation Army's steady upgrading of its technological capacity, its building of a blue-water navy and its fast-developing skills in outer space and cyberspace do not yet threaten American supremacy, despite alarm expressed this week about the opacity of the PLA's plans in a Pentagon report.

Despite alarms being raised with the Italian coastguard and the boat making contact with a military helicopter and a warship, no rescue effort was attempted.

These efforts, involving patrols by civilian law-enforcement vessels, persist despite widespread alarm in the region.

Despite the alarm, advertising executives sometimes seem flattered by the attention.

So despite the alarm of theater devotees, the field is still dominated by new works.

There is no sign of a surge for minor parties, despite recent alarm over the BNP.

The freezer failure came despite two alarm systems designed to alert security and staff of a malfunction.

Despite his alarm, he became one of her acolytes at a time when she wielded enormous influence in the film world.