Sentence examples for despite last minute from inspiring English sources

Yet despite last minute opinion polling showing a swing to remain, 17,410,742 compared to 16,141,241 decided to end Britain's relationship with the EU.

Despite last minute opinion polling showing a swing to remain just 16,141,241 people to remain a member of the EU, compared to 17,410,742 who voted to leave.

Based on today's closing prices and despite last minute rises, platinum miner Lonmin - up 40p at 621.5p - and silver specialist Fresnillo - 0.7p higher at 139p will both be relegated from the FTSE 100 to the mid cap index after the recent slump in metal prices.

Despite last minute attempts at a compromise as the session drew to a close, the Assembly passed neither the tax reform package nor a state budget.

Despite last minute efforts by the animal right's group PETA to halt the move based on concerns for Flocke and Rasputin's well-being, the two bears arrived safely in France on 22 April 2010.

In the Assembly, not even the conservative Democrats who had supported Mr. Pataki last year voted with him, despite last-minute lobbying from Pataki emissaries, and several Republicans joined the majority.

Last Monday the Department of Energy, which runs Fermilab, as it is known, announced that despite last-minute appeals by physicists, the Tevatron will shut down as scheduled in September.

Final deal: Despite last-minute French objections, Cameron secured  additional right for just  one country, such as the UK, to raise objections  at EU Council.

The private equity firms taking over the Danish telecommunications company TDC appear to have cemented the $12 billion deal, despite last-minute objections from a major shareholder.

Israel's Likud-Labour unity government seems on the brink of collapse this week, despite last-minute efforts by Shimon Peres, the foreign minister and Labour elder statesman, to resolve a dispute between the two parties over the state budget.

DESPITE last-minute alarums and a few concessions to doubters and gloomsters, Germany's Social Democratic-led government is bowling ahead with the country's most drastic pension reform for nearly 50 years.