The phrase "despite recommendations" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something is being done or happening despite the advice or guidance of someone or a group of people. Example: Despite the doctor's recommendations to rest and take medication, John insisted on going to work with a fever. In this sentence, "despite recommendations" indicates that John is going against the doctor's advice and doing something different.
The proportion of patients who continued their benzodiazepine prescriptions beyond the recommended duration did not decrease between 2011 and 2012, despite recommendations and financial incentives.
This is despite recommendations that all babies should be breastfed until at least six months.
Despite recommendations by the Australian Law Reform Commission to amend these laws, we have yet to see any change.
It had not been fitted with explosion-suppressant foam, which could have saved it, despite recommendations that it should be.
HMIC said the problem remained despite recommendations in a 2012 IPCC report on the issue, which appear to have not been acted on.
"It is normal practice in many cultures and, despite recommendations to the contrary, it is still commonly practised in the UK," they say.
But some air bases, the Haiphong docks and a rail center on the Chinese border were off limits, despite recommendations by General Momyer and others to hit them.
More than 1,000 planning applications were approved between 2002 and 2005, despite recommendations to the contrary from the Environment Agency.
The men with broken feet, Abu Hazim and Abd al-Karim who sustained the injuries whilst trying to escape capture, were also subjected to walling, stress positions and cramped confinement, despite recommendations that their injuries prevented this form of interrogation.
The G.A.O. said the wage division focused on the same industries in 2007 as in 1997 despite recommendations that it focus on low-wage industries where wage violations were most likely to occur.
This is despite recommendations from the Australian Law Reform Commission that the offence be substantially wound back because it had "real concerns" that "disclosure of any information regardless of its nature of sensitivity" could be caught by it.
