Sentence examples for despite desperate attempts from inspiring English sources

It is believed that, despite desperate attempts by the medical team to revive Ratzenberger, the initial impact may have broken his neck.

As a result of the intense fear among bankers about which institution will be next to fold, the interbank lending rate goes through the roof despite desperate attempts by Central Banks to pump cash into the system.

Despite desperate attempts by Russia to get the ban lifted before the Games in August, the International Association of Athletics Federations voted on Friday unanimously against lifting the prohibition.

Crucially, ITV's revered drama controller Nick Elliott doesn't seem to be in too much of a hurry to give up his network centre kingdom, despite desperate attempts by the BBC to get him.

Despite desperate attempts, he did.

Despite desperate attempts to reestablish contact by Roscosmos and ESA, the craft remained mute and its orbit degraded until the spacecraft plummeted into the ocean off southern Chile.

He presumed that an advanced civilisation had flourished on Mars, but was dying, despite its desperate attempts to re-engineer its climate by using those canals to tap the planet's polar ice caps for water.

And when she wasn't – she turned out to be not such a nice woman after all, despite my desperate attempts to suck up to her – I blamed her.

The red carpet was no better, despite the desperate attempts of my seemingly shameless reporter cohort.

His comrades dragged him on to the roof of the Stryker for medical attention but, despite their desperate attempts, he died.

Reports suggest one of the two pilots was locked out of the cockpit and was unable to gain access despite increasingly desperate attempts.