Sentence examples for despite mass from inspiring English sources

Yet despite mass public opposition, the invasion went ahead a little over a month later.

The government has been unable to extinguish the protests despite mass arrests and a violent crackdown.

The threat of a fundamentalist backlash remains real enough, despite mass arrests of militants and extremists.

And despite mass protests from Athens to Madrid, the pro-euro political establishment has held onto power.

Late last year Duda passed into law a reform of the constitutional court despite mass protests and claims by the opposition that the changes threatened judicial independence.

Abe's Liberal Democratic party and its coalition partner pushed the laws through parliament, despite mass protests and warnings that Japanese troops could become embroiled in foreign wars.

To the puzzlement of pundits and despite masses of publicity, these books tend to languish on the shelves.

In recent days, despite massing its troops and vowing retaliation for a suicide bombing last week, Israel chose not to invade the Gaza Strip.

But despite all her eloquence, and despite the mass protest movement, the Supreme Court ruled last October that work on the huge Sardar Sarovar dam could resume.

Despite this mass shift in the way people work, banks' lending criteria are stricter than ever.

Despite the mass of detail, his was a unified vision, and he wrote in elegant prose.