Sentence examples for despite resisting from inspiring English sources

Despite resisting the calls for several months, eBay eventually decided that Icahn was right.

And despite resisting at first, Apple has introduced the iPhoto, which lets users download digital photos from their computers.

In 2002, Pim Fortuyn, an openly gay politician who was typically described as a right-wing populist despite resisting such categorization, was assassinated by a Dutch citizen angered by Mr. Fortuyn's anti-immigrant message.

Despite resisting any increase to the debt ceiling, a move that could prompt a government shutdown due to a lack of funding, Bachmann claimed disabling the government wasn't her goal.

Williams claims that despite not resisting arrest when he was found hiding under a bed in the November 2011 incident, the North Charleston police officers "pinned [him] to the concrete floor, trapping him within the bedframe, repeatedly stomping on his face and/or allowing other officers to stomp on his face while [he] was handcuffed".

The French defenders of the town, despite initially resisting the attack, were unable to prevent the seizure of the port's defensive fortifications.

With the Serbs still resisting despite increased bombing, President Clinton, under pressure from Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, allowed that Western ground troops might be used and with the intervention of Russia, a deal was struck to end the war in Kosovo.

At 7 p.m. the defenders at Hougoumont were still resisting, despite the burning buildings and their own dwindling ammunition.

Antonis Samaras, the centre-right leader tipped to be prime minister after elections expected in April, also rallied his MPs behind the deal despite having resisted key details for weeks.

Ponting, his side stacked with pacemen, would have had no option but to do likewise had the coin fallen in his favour, despite having resisted the temptation ever since his blunder at Edgbaston more than five years ago.

But Mr Paroubek now says that he wants his country to pay at least symbolic compensation to the surviving anti-Nazi Germans Catholics, trade unionists and the like who were deported despite having resisted Hitler and defended democracy.In this section The fight within Oriana's thread In ENA we trust Who's the madman?