The phrase "despite removing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express a contrast between two events or conditions, with the removal of one thing leading to an unexpected result. For example: Despite removing some of the ingredients, the pie came out tasting even better than before.
He said that despite removing the cameras, he had had no prior knowledge of a blast.
However, despite removing a link to it, the charity kept the statement on its Australian website.
Despite removing skipper Hughes, Davis' opening five overs disappeared for 35 runs, hardly suggesting that the paceman was about to run through the Australian batting line-up.
Newcastle willcontinue to pay Dennis Wise's £1.5m salary despite removing the former England international from his controversial role as the club's director of football last week.
Despite removing the Lenin statue, the planning of the city, its whole construction, will still be around the dam, that most Soviet of symbols.
Other tech companies' approach has been uneven; they have left up Infowars content on some of their services despite removing it from others.
Despite later removing a billboard which appeared over an Illinois expressway featuring a picture of Kaczynski with the caption: "I still believe in global warming.
Emmanuel Labram conducted surgery on a woman in 2008 at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, but despite only removing a few tiny fragments of a lesion told her and her husband he had removed "100 per cent" of the tumour.
But despite the Government removing the 6,208 signatures, the petition has won the backing of more than 188,000 people.
The bureau says their numbers continue to grow at an unmanageable rate, despite years of removing wild horses from the range to enclosed pastures so that wildlife and livestock can share the land.
Despite the nZVI removing greater total Cr VI) quantities, the BnM was able to couple a greater proportion of its EDC to Cr VI) reduction.
