Sentence examples for despite granting from inspiring English sources

Despite granting wage increases to teachers and doctors, he is starting to lose the support of the middle class.

The department claimed that DOMA does not discriminate, despite granting federal benefits only to straight couples, and that if states can ignore a marriage between an uncle and niece, they can ignore gay marriages too.

Antitrust regulators at the European Union — whom Mr. O'Leary, Ryanair's chief executive, has variously dismissed as "twits" and "idiots" — have blocked three takeover attempts by Ryanair since 2006, despite granting approvals to similar combinations in Britain, Spain, Italy and Greece in recent years.

It argues that despite granting equal access to shared public facilities, social voids and physical gaps can instill practices of division that deepen territorial barriers, both psychologically and spatially.

The Obama administration's revised ruling on the contraception coverage that religious institutions must offer employees has not won over critics, despite granting those religious institutions extended exemptions.

Despite granting Utah conditional approval, the Obama administration implicitly rejected Herbert's plea that Avenue H be considered a model for other states and explicitly stressed that Utah's current arrangement doesn't meet the federal health care reform law' standards.

McGill had remained inactive despite granted with a royal charter, until it had undergone several major expansions.

In addition, despite the NAIF granting "conditional approval" for $1bn of commonwealth financing for a rail link between Adani's Carmichael mine and its Abbot Point coal terminal and insisting it is "ready and able to make decisions" about funding, the NAIF has told Greenpeace it had not yet finalised its policies and guidelines for considering the funding criteria.

Despite the club granting him his wish, and attracting interest from League Two side Crewe Alexandra, nothing materialised and Morison signed a new three-year contract at Stevenage.

Despite being granted bail, Assange is to remain behind bars despite being granted bail, after his dispute with the world's biggest credit card companies forced his supporters into the position of trying to raise over $200,000 in cash.

Almog cancelled last year's UK visit despite being granted immunity.