Sentence examples for despite hand from inspiring English sources

Despite hand wringing predictions of rampant apathy and turnoff, midterm turnout was 38percentt of the voting-age public.

Despite hand injury being a common occurrence, only 8% of adults reported the use of commercially available hand protection, similar to the 9.8% reported by Kiely et al 9 in a 2003 study.

There were no security scares, despite hand-wringing about how vulnerable London might be to acts of terrorism.

Despite hand-wringing about the institution of marriage, marriages in this country are stronger today than they have been in a long time.

(In fact, those seemingly soft, fluid shapes are so complex that they could only have been made by hand, and by a gifted ceramicist like Chambost). That they appeal to us now is for exactly the opposite reason: not despite hand-craftsmanship but because of it.

"24" has already had two black presidents, so this time the commander in chief is a woman, Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones), who is decisive and even downright martial: despite hand-wringing from her secretary of state, President Taylor enters office determined to intervene in the fictional African country of Sangala to overthrow a genocidal dictator.

Despite hand-wringing over the failure of the quants, neither the term nor the type of financial analysis it designates is in danger of disappearing, according to David Leinweber, author of "Nerds on Wall Street" and the founding director of the Center for Innovative Financial Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Vodafone paid zero corporation tax in the UK this year, despite handing more than £2.3bn to other countries around the world.

Despite handing over her business card and a map which highlighted the relevant access areas, the three of them were forced into an unpleasant confrontation.

Despite handing out political posts to non-Tutsi like Mr. Runiga, who is referred to as "the president," Tutsi military officers still call the shots.

His lawyers say that despite handing out thousands of dispossess notices, no more than 351 people have actually been evicted since 2004.