Sentence examples for despite old from inspiring English sources

In the final days he graciously ceded the limelight to Gordon Brown, despite old animosities between the pair.

Despite old news reports that the village was a squatter camp, it was, in fact, made up of working- and middle-class property owners.

Romania has had one of the toughest transitions of any formerly Communist state, despite old ties to Western Europe which once earned its capital, Bucharest, the title "the Paris of the East".

"It was clear, sitting in the IARC meeting, that many of the panellists were aiming for a specific result despite old, weak, inconsistent, self-reported intake data," said Betsy Booren, the institute's vice-president of scientific affairs.

Despite old wives' tales to the contrary, goldfish actually possess excellent memories.

Southern Kyrgyzstan is home to a large ethnic Uzbek minority of almost a million people and despite old tensions the two ethnic groups had been living peacefully for many years.

The distance subway cars travel between mechanical problems was also down a total of 24.75 percent in May, and 5.19percentt over the last 12 months, a downward trend that has continued since 2005 despite older cars being steadily replaced by newer models.

And while I would never consider having a child in my mid-50s, despite older women doing so, the option of having a child will be gone for ever.

Despite older displaying differences in head flexion between visual conditions, there was no effect on gait parameters.

Using this paradigm, Schacter and colleagues have demonstrated no significant differences in priming between older and younger adults, despite older adults having worse explicit memory for the objects [23].

The single-mindedly ambitious Uncle Junior is chronically frustrated by having not been made boss of the DiMeo family, despite old-school mob traditions entitling him to the position by virtue of seniority.