Sentence examples for despite being stopped from inspiring English sources

In 2010 the car safely completed the trek in 140 days, despite being stopped 70 times by police demanding to know whether it had insurance (it had).

Despite being stopped near the Austrian border just hours after his murder conviction was upheld in 2013, Sollecito said he never planned to go on the run.

Despite being stopped several times by the police, members of the public formed "flash mobs", which meant that the police "ended up escorting us to the Trump Tower".

A family of 12 who are feared to be in Syria were allowed to leave the UK despite being stopped the previous day at Heathrow and having their house raided by counter-terror officers.

Crowds gathered in Algiers throughout the morning despite train services being stopped by authorities, and huge numbers demonstrated in every other major city and most towns.

The independent inquiry uncovered multiple security flaws and concluded that Mr Breivik's shooting spree on Utoya island could have been stopped a lot sooner.After bombing government buildings in central Oslo Mr Breivik drove past two police vehicles en route to Utoya without being stopped, despite a tip-off that identified his car licence-plates.

He was at even par when play was stopped, despite a lapse in concentration on the first hole caused by the bustling of bystanders.

What Evans-Pritchard turned in was so shoddy, Brock writes, that he, Tyrrell's executive editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, and Ronald Burr, the magazine's publisher, agreed that it had to be stopped despite Tyrrell's determination to publish it.

"Eating rare wild animals is not only bad social conduct but also a main reason why illegal hunting has not been stopped despite repeated crackdowns," Lang Sheng, deputy head of the legislative affairs commission of the NPC standing committee, told Xinhua.

Fans continued to throw objects on to the pitch for at least 30 minutes after the game was stopped, despite appeals for calm from Gauteng premier Mbazima Shilowa.

In the PRORATA trial [42], the reasons for overruling were: n = 39 patients, antibiotics were stopped despite a PCT > 0.5 μg/L, because infection was considered clinically cured; n = 79 patients, antibiotic therapy was prolonged despite a PCT < 0.5 μg/L, because patients were clinically unstable.