Sentence examples for despite being instructed from inspiring English sources

The microblogging platform has also struggled with implementing real-name registration, despite being instructed to by the Chinese government.

The Federal Communications Commission will likely continue to regulate broadband almost unabated, despite being instructed to vacate its broadband enforcement decision.

"All 40 riders appeared to be in breach of the rules, in that they either lined up prior to being instructed to do so, or lined up despite being instructed not to do so," added Stier.

The task of verbalizing thoughts while filling out a rating scale and providing a performance score may have introduced an aspect of accountability into the rating task, with both experienced and non-experienced raters feeling compelled to explain and justify their actions despite being instructed otherwise.

The proportion of respondents indicating that they took into account the possibility of treatment or relief (despite being instructed not to do so) was lower than that observed in a previous study where the same structured feedback question was asked [ 9], although this may be due to the fact that in the present study respondents were presented with fewer severe health states.

Lawyers acting for Hunt and Kershaw had claimed they had the necessary powers to recommend and carry out changes to Lewisham services, despite Kershaw being instructed to investigate a separate failing trust of which Lewisham hospital was not a part.

There were two false starts and jockeys breached rules by either lining up before being asked to or lining up despite not being instructed to by the starter.

Intriguingly, and despite not being instructed to gesture, students were highly likely to describe abstract causal concepts in terms of spatial language and with spatial gestures (even when all spatial language was stripped from the instruction).

That is, despite participants being instructed to evaluate the target words and not the primes, congruent trials were afforded a significant processing advantage relative to incongruent trials at the short SOA when participants did not have sufficient time to plan their responses [ 20, 24].

On meeting Emperor Hirohito of Japan in the 1970s, she brought up the subject of rare fish breeds with him, despite having been instructed in advance that only he was allowed to determine the direction of conversation.

In another study where intravaginal cleansing was associated with using HEC placebo gel, compared to the less viscous Acidform gel, the authors concluded that: "gels may have been sensed as moisture or wetness, … as more gel accumulated in the vagina, women may have experienced a greater compulsion to cleanse despite having been instructed not to do so" [ 39, p 193].