They failed to stop a Raiders offense despite knowing exactly what was coming.
In one hallway — which now had an alien scent despite looking exactly as I remembered it — I put my nose close to the gap between a locked door and its jamb, thinking that I might be able to whiff a vestige in the closet behind it.
Elsewhere, Ricks riffs on one of Dylan's latest offerings, the song "Sugar Baby" (2001): "Two idioms were the parents of this Sugar Baby, parents who -- despite not exactly getting on with one another -- were determined to make a go of it.
Two people can differ with respect to being a sibling despite being exactly alike with respect to being a brother.
Despite having exactly the same DNA, the mice had wildly varying coat colors, ranging from yellow to mottled and nearly everything in between.
Despite writing exactly five articles for and against each political party since July 24th, I and some of our other writers have been accused of being partisan shills, selling out our journalistic integrity to hock the brain-dead policies of whatever party my friends, colleagues, and readers happen to disagree with.
Despite declaring exactly one year ago his intention to uphold President Obama's campaign promise and enforce Net Neutrality, Obama FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has done nothing, showing his cowardice and embarrassing the president who put him on the job.
Labeling is powerful: In blind tastings, people judge wine as tasting superior when told it costs a lot despite being exactly the same drink as the competitors they taste.
And if tens of thousands of elderly Americans are living in poverty despite doing exactly what American presidents have told them to do for decades ― namely, getting an education ― then something is dreadfully wrong.
He's a starmaker and, despite knowing exactly what his lewd intentions were, the dreamer brain of mine thought maybe, maybe he saw some star quality in me too.
