Sentence examples for despite initiative from inspiring English sources

Breastfeeding rates in Britain remain depressingly low: despite initiative after initiative, only one in five babies is still being exclusively breastfed at six weeks.

Young audiences are still too infrequently encountered at theatre, opera and classical music, and genuinely multi-ethnic audiences remain, despite initiative after initiative, depressingly rare.

"That is despite initiatives earlier this year by Aylesbury Vale to adopt a software-as-a-service approach in back office services plus mobile working in the housing directorate.

Despite initiatives such as Estethica, fashion week is often accused of being frivolous and unsustainable: feeding the machine of consumerism, constantly introducing trends and encouraging unalloyed spending.

Rowe said he had to act to stop the rot in clothing and home business because despite initiatives, such as a collaboration with TV presenter Alexa Chung, the division had haemorrhaged £200m of sales in the last three years.

Meanwhile, pre-school learning is also under the spotlight as a study reveals that children's early language and numeracy has improved little despite initiatives, such as Sure Start, aimed at boosting pre-school educational achievement.

Yet despite initiatives and strategies to reduce the burden that these infections cause, healthcare workers' practice is still reported as suboptimal and these infections persist.

Despite initiatives from everyone from Alice Waters to South Beach Diet Doctor Arthur Agatston,in most cases, it hasn't gotten better.

Only 8.3percentt of India's population use condoms or the contraceptive pill as a means of family planning, despite initiatives to make them free across the country.

"People can't get their head around the idea of watching people inject drugs, even if it's way safer for them to do it that way," he said, adding that, despite initiatives such as methadone maintenance treatment and needle exchange programs that cities like Toronto and Vancouver have in abundance, many addicts will still end up going back to using injectables.

Despite initiatives for general practices to identify carers and their needs, many remain unidentified.