Sentence examples for despite statements that from inspiring English sources

While it is possible to apply Locke's general principles of education to all children, and contemporaries such as Coste certainly did so, Locke himself, despite statements that may imply the contrary, believed that Some Thoughts applied only to the wealthy and the middle-class (or as they would have been referred to at the time, the "middling sorts").

One issue is his failure to raise money to pay for a $30 million AIDS research center, despite statements that he had lined up donations.

(Note: The Dalai Lama continues to sit in Parliament meetings, despite statements that he is a spiritual, not political, leader of the Tibetans. END NOTE).

These include charges that the security forces are weighted unfairly toward Shiites and that an amnesty law approved last summer has resulted in few releases despite statements that it covers tens of thousands of Iraqis now held in jails and prisons.

There is little indication that Mr. Obama plans to endorse same-sex marriage before the presidential election in November, despite recent statements that tiptoe right up to that position.

Despite ministry statements that Egypt would do everything it could to aid the migrants, the workers and their families issued several statements pleading for help.

"Despite official statements that the missile defense system will ensure our security, this is far from the truth," General Makarov, above, told Vesti, a television news channel.

Columns of smoke billowed into the sky near the airport outside, where clashes are still ongoing despite official statements that the government is in full control.

A report by the Web site Deadspin on Friday suggested that Jordan did not earn an undergraduate degree at Rutgers 36 years ago when he was a star player, despite previous statements that he had.

The announcement that no senior official in President Obama's second term will succeed Mr. Fried in working primarily on diplomatic issues pertaining to repatriating or resettling detainees appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that it still intends to do so.

US embassy cables released by Wikileaks said that in 2008 Koroma's minister for transport, Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay, was questioned by the police for cocaine trafficking and then released and that the president had given direct orders for him not to be arrested, despite public statements that those with political connections accused of drug trafficking would not be given protection.