Sentence examples for despite the authority from inspiring English sources

Despite the authority given to the agency, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said.

It will receive council and Arts Council funding of £500,000 a year for the next three years despite the authority having had to shed hundreds of jobs and cut £118m from its budget.

Knitting it all together are the threads of an oral storytelling tradition: parents who speak in parables; superstitions and beliefs that still hold sway despite the authority of Christianity; and the overarching tension between a fate set in stone by divination versus the ability to direct the course of one's own life through rational cool-headedness.

Despite the authority's assurances, some tenants said they were convinced that the plan was the first step in a process that would lead to their eviction.

Mr. Lhota said that despite the authority's trove of ancient underground equipment, the authority's warehouses in Queens and the Bronx were rarely without a required replacement part.

And despite the authority's assertion that the express coaches must use diesel, other critics note that New Jersey Transit early this year began using 50 express models, similar to the ones sought by the authority but slightly smaller, that run on compressed natural gas.

She writes that despite the authorities' claim that they are prepared for the pilgrimage, the region remains ill equipped to deal with such crowds.

Western news media persisted in peeking where they weren't supposed to, despite the authorities' Oz-like injunctions to pay no attention to the country behind the curtain.

Ms. Zhu's 72-year-old mother, Zhu Mingxin, has said she is not willing to give up, despite the authorities' refusal to reopen the investigation.

At Gemampir, about eight miles from the volcano's rim, villagers stayed on despite the authorities' declaring a nine-mile danger zone on Wednesday.

Despite the authorities requiring it to carry a health warning, "raw" (unpasteurised) milk has a loyal following convinced of its taste and health superiority.