Sentence examples for despite governor from inspiring English sources

Despite Governor Christie's order, communities varied widely with their holiday observances.

With $32 billion in debt, New Jersey's finances are in much worse shape, despite Governor Corzine's best efforts to restore fiscal sanity.

Despite Governor Bush's warning in his nomination speech on Thursday not to "mess with Texas," the broadsides will continue because of the way America elects presidents.

"The conventional wisdom in Albany," he wrote in a recent memo, "is that a big, broad-based state tax increase is inevitable next year -- despite Governor George E. Pataki's opposition to 'job-killing' tax hikes".

Most of the expected reactions in time materialized, but a strong bill passed the House with ease and, despite Governor Wallace, is expected to pass the Senate more or less intact.

Despite Governor Schwarzenegger's suggestion, a constitutional amendment is not in circulation now, but given Californians' proclivity to take the law into their own hands by the initiative process, such a move is not unthinkable".

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, that all of the RTW states' employees have a lower standard of living without unions, despite the governor himself stating that the issue was divisive, despite the doors being locked from the public during the lame-duck push by legislators who had just lost their seats in the election the law was passed.

And despite it, Governor Martz said she strongly favors the notion of recalls, generally.

He said he would not change his position, despite the governor's statement.

Despite the Governor's opposition, Kean, Jr., won the vote, but he and his father did not forgive and forget.

But despite the governor's sometimes odd behavior, the whiff of adultery had not followed him, and reporters remained skeptical.