Sentence examples for despite having close from inspiring English sources

Despite having close historical ties to Moscow, Lukashenko has been keen to emphasise his country's autonomy since the war in Ukraine.

It had been omitted in the Smithsonian Institution's 1981 publication Volcanoes of the World, despite having close to a million people on its slopes as of 1996.

Up until then I had no idea what it was like to live as an undocumented person, despite having close family members who were undocumented.

Despite having close friends that are in very successful Tinder-fostered relationships, I have been convinced they are but rare anomalies floating in a sea of very thirsty people all about the tap and gap.

Moreover, the Drosophila ferlin gene, Misfire (DmeI), is an outlier within the non-DysF subgroup, and does not cluster with ferlin sequences from other arthropods (Phum, Tcas, Apis, Cqui, see Table 1), despite having close evolutionary distance.

Within that overall measure, the education gap could be closed in 10 years, while the inequality in politics – which has the widest gap, despite having closed by 23% – should end in 82 years because of the fast pace of improvement since 2006, when it stood at 14%.

If you find that your accounts are being kept open, despite having closed them, a phone call to the corporate office of the bank in question should be sufficient action to make sure that the bank stops its activities.

Despite the competition having closed a while back, the company has said it will honour the commitment, which is not quite as generous an offer as it sounds.

Despite many resorts having closed for the season there is still good skiing at altitude in Europe, particularly on the glaciers.

5. Oil has finally broken its immediate term trade line of support ($78.79/barrel), despite the U.S. dollar having closed down again week-over-week.

Despite political tensions, Taiwan and China have close commercial relations.