Sentence examples for despite precious from inspiring English sources

But, "in a funk" after the show's Broadway run, he decided to take a career left-turn and apply to be artistic director at Sheffield Theatres, despite precious little directing experience.

Rutgers University's antiwar activists could ask Rice why she ginned up support for a preemptive war, despite precious little intelligence suggesting that the next smoking gun would be a mushroom cloud.

Beyond that, the picture of Mr. Cipel, who was awarded a $110,000-a-year 110,000-a-year 110,000-a-year antiterrorism efforts in 2002 despite precious few credentials, is murky.

This is happening despite precious little evidence that money sent to Somalia has ended up in the hands of militant groups like al-Shabab.

And yet, despite its precious, contrived moments, the book delivers a strong sense of who these people were.

That has long been the case for me and the song from the Huggies Pull-Ups advert, which has been constantly playing in my head now for at least two decades despite saying precious little about my life.

But who can blame a poor country for turning its eyes towards obvious sources of wealth – Tanzania and soda-rich Lake Natron, which an Indian company wanted to exploit despite its precious population of flamingos, or the Kongou Falls in Gabon, threatened by a Chinese iron ore project?

There's Mr Stock (no relation – this is one of those villages with only five surnames) the gardener, who deposits the largest and least edible vegetables on the kitchen table every morning, having banged the back door open, despite the precious (and enchanted) stained glass to be found there.

His club, the Cairo giants Al Ahly, were named club of the year after they won their eighth African Champions League title, despite having precious little domestic football in Egypt for the last two years.

Yet, despite that, precious little is known about the company outside of Asia, where the vast majority of its users are located, and the challenges that it is up against.

Despite the precious nature of our water resources, hundreds of thousands of miles of our rivers don't meet basic water quality standards.