Sentence examples for despite governing from inspiring English sources

Why will it win so comfortably despite governing so poorly?The ANC makes the political weather, but South Africa is not a one-party state.

Despite governing for nearly 26 years and handily winning re-election again this year, President Yoweri Museveni now finds that his popularity seems to be waning, along with his grip on the economy and his own party.

Others bemoaned his worrisome environmental record — including a continued refusal to acknowledge the reality of man-made climate change, despite governing a state where millions of people live within a few feet of the high-tide line.

Instead of sweeping promises and grand goals, it emphasizes what the incumbent has managed to achieve despite governing during a historic economic downturn.

The oldest of them all is the Rada, which, despite governing for less than a year, has improbably survived two world wars, 70 years of Soviet occupation, and nearly a century in exile.

He became a devoted railway signalman - which may explain why his most publicised industrial triumph was in 1994, when he led his signalmen members through the first big strike after rail privatisation, a 15-week dispute that won them substantial pay rises despite govern- ment opposition.

Carolyn Prager, a leader of Advocates for Public Representation in Public Education, a group based in Manhattan that is fighting the plan, said that despite rules governing parent associations, the city could offer no guarantees that P.T.A. elections were conducted legally or fairly.

Platini has claimed Blatter told him at the time that Fifa could not afford to pay him, despite the governing body making £78m over that four-year cycle, and did not want to break its wage structure.

The Frenchman has claimed Blatter told him at the time that Fifa could not afford to pay him, despite the governing body making £78m over that four-year cycle, and did not want to break its wage structure.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People said in a statement that the attack was meant to show that insurrection remained a valid strategy despite the governing party's defeat in presidential voting.

It did so despite the governing constitution specifically providing for birthright citizenship.