Sentence examples for despite being huge from inspiring English sources

Despite being huge, hugely fertile and blessed with an embarrassment of natural riches — gold, diamonds, cobalt, copper, timber and oil, just to name a few — the United Nations recently ranked Congo the least developed country on earth.

A small group of Israeli activists also wrote an open letter to the Pixies in March, saying that despite being huge fans, they would "not cross the international picket line".

Watching Beirut in a venue so packed that, despite being huge, there is no room to dance, it is hard not to wonder how many of the people here share frontman Zach Condon's love for European, near-eastern and Gypsy music, and how many require the filtering of an American imagination/indie-rock sensibility to appreciate it.

Their most successful moment came in 1998, when, against all the odds they defeated Wigan Warriors in the Challenge Cup final, despite being huge underdogs.

This goes against the Island Syndrome predictions, despite Dinornis being huge even by moa standards.

When we are back, then we will practise penalties". Despite once again being huge underdogs, the holders got their noses in front when Jordi Gomez slotted home a second-half penalty.

Despite it's huge economic growth, China is facing enormous environmental problems.

And yet, despite that, there is huge variation in the standards on offer [between schools], and a huge disengagement within the system, among some pupils.

This of course invites us to consider Thompson's own influence on the rock canon, which is huge despite his limited commercial success.

Despite all this, there are huge gaps in funding for the work needed to protect children from these atrocious crimes and to respond to their needs".

The discrepancy between money spent on captive animals and those in the wild is huge, despite it being 50 times more expensive to house animals in zoos than it is to protect them in their natural habitats.