Sentence examples for despite desperate efforts from inspiring English sources

A nurse named Jackie had recently lost her favourite patient, despite "desperate efforts" to save her.

Despite desperate efforts, they failed to gain support from France and Great Britain, and in September 1848 a Russian army occupied Bucharest and dispersed the provisional government.

Despite desperate efforts of the Administration to force reconsideration, the Senate retained the Byrd amendment to the bill limiting construction cost to $4,000 a family.

Steven Rattner, who was Mr. Obama's lead auto adviser, wrote in The Times on Friday that not a single dollar of private capital could be found to prop up the companies, despite desperate efforts, and he challenged Mr. Romney to name one investor who might differ.

As a result, the top three principalists' candidates weakened each other in debates, and did not agree to form a coalition despite desperate efforts by supporters who were seeing the possibility of defeat increase daily.

Despite these desperate efforts, Miranda insists that she's a victim of universal lethargy.

That night he had three more convulsions in bed, despite our desperate efforts to keep him cool, and three more at the Whittington hospital's A&E department.

Despite his desperate efforts, Nicola withdraws from her leading role in his half-finished film after her latest tantrum, leaving him finished.

Despite the desperate efforts of the crew, it failed to gain altitude and crashed into a hotel in the village of Gonesse, five miles from the end of the runway.

Once again, it needs stating because it can't be stated too often: despite the desperate efforts of the National Rifle Association to prevent research on gun violence, the research has gone on, and shows conclusively what common sense already suggests.

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish one way or another 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research; both figures seem to rise inexorably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.