Sentence examples for despite harm from inspiring English sources
Many patients and physicians do not know the difference between physical dependence on a drug (withdrawal symptoms result if the drug is abruptly stopped) and addiction (loss of control over drug use, cravings and continued use despite harm).
To discover at what point people will choose to be dishonest, despite harm to their self-interest or self-image, researchers at Virginia Tech looked at people who had damage to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a highly-evolved structure at the front of the brain involved in working memory, planning and cognitive control, including moral decision-making.
The hallmark of opioid addiction is psychological dependence manifested by a behavioral syndrome of continued, compulsive drug use, despite harm [ 28].
Over the course of several months, however, only WT mice became increasingly motivated and continued to seek morphine despite harm and at the expense of alternative rewards.
Despite Harms' laid back personality, he's been able to convert a gap in the wine market to a brand that resonates with younger customers.
Implicit in their overnight paranoia about the Chinese is that they're different, that government support of their businesses somehow strengthens the Chinese despite harming those who aren't.
Despite the harm imposed on some shareholders, we find that an inversion increases shareholder wealth in aggregate.
Chu goes easy on Exodus International, the largest "ex-gay" ministry in the country, despite the harm the group does to vulnerable gays and lesbians, particularly gay children.
Mr. Bush has made it clear that he will go ahead with a missile defense shield no matter what America's allies think -- and despite the harm it might inflict on America's fundamental relationships with Russia and China.
Why, we hear, are French politicians so reluctant to put up a fight against Angela Merkel and the politics of austerity, despite the harm they've done to the French economy?
