Sentence examples for despite contentions from inspiring English sources

The numbers show that despite contentions that Goldman had traded against its clients by shorting the housing markets, clients have not fled.

That result meant that the trade center's design, despite contentions by the Port Authority, would not have met the city's code.

Despite contentions by White House press secretary Sean Spicer that Trump "left everything on the field" while lobbying for the health-care bill, other Republicans suggested he could have played a more assertive role starting earlier in the process.

A state commission ruled today that Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for governor, is eligible to run, despite contentions by Democrats that he did not comply with Massachusetts residency requirements while living in Utah for the last three years.

The lawsuit, filed yesterday in a Delaware state court, seeks to force Tyson to complete the purchase, despite contentions that undisclosed financial problems at IBP rendered the deal invalid.

Despite contentions that the crackdown stems from insecurity, some Syrian analysts and diplomats say the Assad rule has staved off several crises and now feels strong enough to restore limits that once cowed critics.

Montreal has approved plans to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into a major river running through the city, despite contention from environmental groups.

Despite contention over its purpose, it still draws massive crowds who come just to glimpse the iconic white and yellow facade, behind which some of Spain's most important bullfights have played out.

Despite earlier contentions concerning DNA content and the presence of oogamy, the present results do not support a correlation between phylogenetic placement and genome size.

Because despite their pessimism, and despite his contention that nothing good could come from the camps ("We had all been permanently poisoned by the north, and we knew it"), his writing is an act of defiance, not despair.

Despite the contention, some residents welcome the rink.