Sentence examples for despite mandates from inspiring English sources

Despite mandates, loan guarantees and subsidies, ethanol plants do go bust, like the one pictured above.

Less than 100% of children are tested for lead, despite mandates.

Despite mandates that children up for adoption must be subjected to predeparture health screening, Hostetter et al. demonstrated in 1989 that 54% of the adopted children they screened once arriving to the United States had an undiagnosed infectious disease at the time of visiting a practitioner; 63% were diagnosed with an unsuspected medical problem regardless of country of origin [ 28].

In the state of Maine (northeast United States), despite mandated recycling of CFLs and availability of free CFL recycling, the household CFL recycling rate is very low.

Despite mandated recognition of the expense, some firms' managers exclude it from non-GAAP earnings and some firms' analysts exclude it from Street earnings.

Despite mandated priority, a major neglect of children takes place.

Despite government mandates for the use of ethanol, those companies are struggling.

Surnames — which were abolished by the Soviet-backed government in the 1920s — are still rarely used, despite government mandates to revive them.

The I.N.S. says that since February, when the Justice Department ordered a roundup of people from Muslim countries who had remained in the United States despite court mandates to leave, agents have arrested 578 foreigners against whom deportation orders were outstanding.

"Despite legal mandates, public policy, proven benefits of family-like living for clients and the compounding needs for such homes, many local governments and neighborhoods have continued to oppose and impede these homes," the report said.

Nonetheless, receipt of accommodations is not consistent among people with disabilities (Allaire et al. 2003; Balser 2007; Burkhauser and Daly 1996; Campolieti 2004) despite the mandates of the ADA.