Sentence examples for despite place from inspiring English sources

Though you can cross-country ski in a few spots, the city just doesn't have alpine capability, despite place names that might make you think otherwise: Washington, Hamilton, Crown, Jackson and Cambria are all Heights; Boerum and Cobble have Hills; and Park has a Slope — and there is not a single chairlift among them.

Prepd has bootstrapped itself to date, despite Place and Matters admitting that they have fielded interest from VCs.

Despite placing a respectable 24th in the preliminary rounds, the car broke down in the main race.

(Despite placing only two hundred and seventieth in the site's rankings, Kongphan was gaining several thousand followers a day).

Finally pharmaceutical group BTG added 1.1p to 339.5p despite placing 32m shares at 330p each to raise £106m before expenses.

The Met have won six of their last nine games despite placing three players (Justin Turner, Jon Niese and Lucas Duda) on the disabled list in the last five days.

Harold Evensky, an investment adviser in Coral Gables, Fla., also plans no changes to his broadly diversified portfolio, despite placing fourth during the first quarter with a gain of 4.98percentt.

This means that despite placing fourth, Newt Gingrich has effectively snagged that golden third "ticket out of Iowa", and perhaps lives to fight another day.

The leader of the New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, who failed to form a government despite placing first in last month's elections, now talks about pushing for a better deal.

Despite placing both DRR and climate change adaptation under the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture, creating synergies might still pose a challenge because these departments have separate mandates from the UN system.

Interestingly enough, real estate, despite placing third on the list, isn't nearly as big a part of the superrich portfolio as it is for the "merely rich," those who left estates valued between $1.5 million and $20 million.