Sentence examples for despite approving from inspiring English sources

The FSA commissioned the research despite approving the traffic light scheme three years ago, which failed to win the support of leading retailers.

Despite approving reviews, it only entered the US charts for one week, at No 41, though it did reach No 1 in Denmark.

The financial pressure on Italy is rising, and despite approving almost $70 billion in spending cuts and tax increases last month, politicians say the country needs to pass new austerity measures as soon as September.

The federal government has slashed funding for the Refugee Council of Australia by more than half a million dollars over the next four years despite approving the original sum in the 2014 budget.

Louisiana's voucher program passed through the state legislature amid heated debate, particularly as lawmakers objected to funding an Islamic school despite approving of support for Christian schools.

Alex Zalben of UGO Networks, however, called the episode the "first clunker of the season" because despite approving of the plot and the acting, the "writing was uniformly obvious, stilted and kind of terrible... there were more head-slappingly stupid moments than I could count".

In fact, 'laughter through tears' is too crudely sentimental for what Wood has in mind, despite his approving echo of the phrase.

Katie Price said after the committee hearing: "David Abraham continues to add insult to injury when he even ignores an MP and consistently continues to refuse to apologise for Frankie Boyle's sick joke despite his approving it for going on air.

Despite Greece approving its tough budget for 2013, the next tranche was not released immediately as there was no agreement among Greece's lenders on how to make the country's debt sustainable.

That's what Congress is hellbent on approving despite valiant efforts from a growing number of Progressives led by FireDogLake's Jane Hamsher to derail this legislation's passage in the House.

However, it is concerning that despite R&D departments approving applications more quickly, sites still took more than 9 months to open with the majority of time spent preparing to submit the application form.