Sentence examples for despite the brief from inspiring English sources

Despite the brief nature of their flowers, day lilies are tough plants.

Despite the brief encounters, relations seem warm, with the students clearly protective of their older chums.

A desperate place before the earthquake struck, despite the brief moment of international attention it has become more desperate still.

Despite the brief bump RIM will see from the launch of BB10, we expect its decline to continue longer term.

This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, the process has gone backwards.

Despite the brief flagellation (maybe we'll cover the Police Olympics now), SportsWorld handled itself appropriately these past two weeks, postponing and returning in timely fashion.

(He used the memorable phrase "rat-fucking" to describe that attitude, subsequently reported despite the briefing being off the record).

"The Sheriff has some concerns about some of the assumptions made by the attorney general about some of the OCSD's employees in the brief, despite their investigation not being concluded," Lt. Jeff Hallock, spokesman for the sheriff's department, told HuffPost.

CUNY officials say the year-old science and math program, known as the Teaching Opportunity Program, shows that despite the fleetingly brief training period, teachers prepared this way can succeed.

The authors reported that the trained participants showed a larger gain in the reasoning test than the control group did, and despite the relatively brief period of training, this gain was large enough that it would be expected to substantially improve performance in everyday life.

Despite the relatively brief period surveyed (four months) and modest sample size, we still found significant effects of one measure of genetic diversity on "everyday health" in our student sample.