Sentence examples for despite quitting from inspiring English sources

Marty, despite quitting drinking and remaining faithful to his wife, still seems detached from family life.

Despite quitting her job as a typist to work for Star full time, the company reneged on her promised salary.

Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan will continue to present programmes together on Channel 4, despite quitting their teatime chatshow.

In his speech on Sunday, Mr. Amin said that Mr. Muhammad, despite quitting the society, did not want his followers to abandon it.

At the University of Iowa, despite quitting the team at least twice after disputes with his coach, Forest Evashevski, Karras was so good that he was named an all-American as a two-way tackle in 1956 and 1957.

So grave is the current crisis that Rupert's four oldest children – James, Lachlan, still a board member despite quitting to run his own business in Australia, Elisabeth, whose independent production company was bought by News Corp this year, and Prudence, the only one without a senior position in the business – converged on London for a crisis meeting this week.

Yet despite the droves quitting the party - including many Marxist historians, such as EP Thompson - Hobsbawm weathered the "intolerable tensions".

One of them, an "emotional" Okoro, immediately took to Twitter to say she was quitting despite having been selected for the 4x400m relay.

Tesco boss Philip Clarke has come out defiant, saying he has no intention of quitting, despite a 6% fall in profits at Britain's biggest retailer and £1.3bn of writedowns The former Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers has been charged with drug offences Stock markets have been buoyed by slightly stronger-than-expected Chinese growth data.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has spoken to the BBC about his leadership and has said he has not thought of quitting, despite criticism.

She admits she never once thought about quitting despite concerns about where the funding for her next fight was coming from.