Sentence examples for despite anguish from inspiring English sources

Despite anguish over police brutality and the death of some 3,000 people since the July coup, most of them Mr Morsi's supporters, the common talk on Egyptian streets is that only a strongman can fix things.So the presidential poll may replicate a pattern set in December, when Egyptians voted on a new constitution.

Despite the anguish and fear from the explosion of the first bomb, and despite the proof of the genocidal nature of atomic weapons from their explosion over Japan, America let the bomb industrial-military complex shape the country and, eventually, the world.

Ms. Gatkuoth said that despite her anguish, she felt she could not leave the job.

Roux then approached Pistorius who indicated that the testimony should continue despite his anguish.

Despite the anguish, Ms. Chong-Beswick seemed to place her focus on the positives in her daughter's life.

Despite national anguish at the determination of the European Central Bank (ECB) to keep interest rates at rock-bottom, very few of them are taking the opportunity to earn higher returns by opening accounts elsewhere in the European Union.

Despite his anguish over his initially unrequited love, which drove him deeper into addiction, Mr. Clapton says now that the affair didn't seem like such a big deal.

Find a quiet corner at Christmas and watch the late Philip Langridge in his final role as the drag-Witch in Hänsel und Gretel last year: so witty that despite the anguish you'll have to laugh.

But Lanzmann didn't make a film about the Holocaust or an evocation of the Holocaust; he filmed the Holocaust itself, with the faith that the bearing of witness is itself the ultimate representation — and he conveys the sense of a supremely moral mission as he presses his subjects to speak despite their anguish, fear, or shame.

Though inclined to anarchism and independent judgment, Serge joined the Bolsheviks, becoming close to a number of the leaders, as well as the writer Maxim Gorky, and stayed in the party despite his anguish at the suppression of the Kronstadt rising at the end of 1920.

Despite the anguish expressed by liberals, "the big surprise for a lot of movement conservatives is how little has been accomplished through that kind of sustained effort over a generation," said Bradford Berenson, who helped vet judges as an associate counsel in the Bush White House from 2001 to 2003.