Sentence examples for despite opportunities from inspiring English sources

Other than a one-year stint as an offensive and defensive line coach under Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State in 1966, Vogts has remained at Bethpage despite opportunities to coach in college.

Despite opportunities to resettle in the United States or Spain after he was fired, colleagues said, Mr. Espinosa Chepe kept his small book-lined apartment in Havana and began writing about Cuba's economy.

The central character of "Yellow Dog" is an actor and writer named Xan Meo, who considers himself "the dream husband": "a fifty-fifty parent, a tender and punctual lover, a fine provider, an amusing companion, a versatile and unsqueamish handy man, a subtle and accurate cook, and a gifted masseur who, moreover (and despite opportunities best described as 'ample'), never fools around".

Another excuse is that author and translator must both be paid, which is, according to the director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, Amanda Hopkinson, the prime reason for publishers' "resistance" despite "opportunities for funding within the UK and the EU which they're not taking advantage of".

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Sharks formed spatial groups characterized by nonrandom and long-term associations, despite opportunities for social relationships to develop between communities.

I always look forward, though, so once I stopped doing clubs in the mid 80s, I was never tempted to do one again despite opportunities.

Despite opportunities to coach elsewhere, Shaughnessy remained in New Orleans because he liked the city and it was his wife's hometown.