Sentence examples for despite powerful from inspiring English sources

Despite powerful historic trends that favor the party out of power, each of today's races highlights why Democrats are on offense -- even in one of the worst political environments since 1994.

War, starvation and genocide still happen despite powerful images.

Despite powerful reviews by literary heavyweights such as Alfred Kazin, there was little interest in the book, and poor sales.

Despite powerful evidence that the military's approach to sexual assault needs an overhaul, the resistance to change among military brass and their enablers on Capitol Hill remains fierce.

Despite powerful performances by Pryce and Thompson, though, the film's blinkered obsession with the sexual neuroses of Strachey and Carrington soon becomes tiresome.

Now the Canadian government has approved a proposal for a major pipeline to transport the country's oil to Asia, despite powerful resistance from environmental groups, the First Nations and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political rivals in parliament.

But despite his powerful build and despite having inherited some of his father's timing, he perhaps lacked inner drive.

Despite their powerful presence, winter will crush many of them.

Despite her powerful account of the conversation, Ms. Jeantel was not an ideal witness for prosecutors.

And yet, despite their powerful cultural history, white coats may be on their way out anyway.

Despite these powerful interests, indigenous groups have slowed the expansion of the extraction industries into Yasuni.