Sentence examples for despite criminal from inspiring English sources

Illegal immigrants like the one in Suffern are not always automatically deported despite criminal charges, Chief Osborn said.

Despite criminal barristers settling their differences with the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, last week, solicitors who conduct criminal defence and prosecution work are persevering with their mass walkout.

But he insisted that he had sought assurances from the former editor that he had no knowledge of phone-hacking practices at the now-defunct newspaper, despite criminal convictions of staff under his editorship.

Blatter, who has said he will remain as Fifa president until February despite criminal proceedings being opened against him by the attorney general, is also under pressure to explain a £1.3m payment to the Uefa president, Michel Platini, in February 2011.

The sports reporting award went to Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry of The Seattle Times for "Victory and Ruins," a four-part series revealing that two dozen members of the University of Washington football team that won the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day in 2001, were allowed to play despite criminal arrests, some for violent felonies, while they were enrolled at the university.

Now they're pointing to reports that Uber allowed four people to become drivers in Southern California despite criminal records that allegedly would have stopped them from becoming cabbies.

A police hunt ensued, but despite his criminal record, and despite having left a large thumb-print on the frame, Peruggia's name never came up.

Ms. Trudgeon was in court and continued to support Mr. Doyle, despite his criminal past.

Mr. Bloomberg, too, remains bullish on CityTime, despite the criminal case.

They wanted qualifications, they said, because these might lead them to jobs (despite their criminal record) and jobs were important.

Despite his criminal conviction, in 1955 Jim Hensley was granted a liquor license to start an Anheuser-Busch distributorship, which he called Hensley & Company.