Sentence examples for despite aspirations from inspiring English sources

The delightful irony, of course, despite aspirations to "world" status, is the constant citation in documents like Gehl's of features like human scale, liveability, walkability, and legibility to individuals: the canonical Jane Jacobs "smallness" and profoundly local values.

Despite aspirations to halt biodiversity loss by 2020 under the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, urban development continues to negatively impact UK wildlife and habitats.

Several studies suggest that needle aspiration is as effective as abscess excision in the management of the majority of intracerebral abscesses and excision can be reserved for abscesses that fail to regress despite aspiration, or that are caused by resistant pathogens [ 33].

But despite its aspirations, the company lost its way.

DESPITE its aspirations to nobility, sport has proved as corrupt as any other human activity over the years.

Despite widespread aspirations of emulating other Asian cities such as Singapore and Shanghai, a number of transport interventions are surprisingly absent.

Despite such aspirations, at the end of the 20th century, avant-gardism in many ways became academic, routine, and repetitive.

The narrative recipe works best in the final part, where it becomes clear that Oluwale, despite his aspirations, was doomed from the moment he arrived in England.

Despite its aspirations to act as a regional powerbroker, Turkish talk has not been matched by persuasive actions in another troublespot – Cyprus.

Despite its aspirations to wield influence as a new Arab democracy, Iraq may well remain more of a stage than an actor.

Despite these aspirations, at its best and also at its worst, the film, and particularly its goofy tech-guru villain, seem more resonant of "Zoolander".