Sentence examples for despite the far from inspiring English sources

She was able to show that, despite the far greater availability of welfare benefits, the consequences remained psychologically devastating.

In fact, the official said, there were fewer complaints than in the provincial elections in January 2009, despite the far larger number of votes.

For despite the far higher costs for commercial time -- an average of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a spot, compared with prices in the thousands on national cable and in the hundreds for local broadcast or cable -- audiences are typically 5 to 10 times larger.

Despite the far higher cost of growing rice in Japan and the $1.5 billion that this country spends to subsidize its rice farmers and to reduce the high price to consumers, Japan bars virtually all rice imports, except for small amounts used to make sake or rice crackers, or rice to be distributed as food aid to other countries.

Pre-orders don't appear to have opened up yet in China, Asia's dominant market, despite the Far East being the driving force behind the big-phones trend.

Another study showed that more UK residents die (per capita) than Americans from heart attack despite the far higher burden of risk factors in Americans for these fatal events.

Despite the far-reaching impacts of the shutdown, much of the federal government has not been touched.

"I don't have all the answers," Pilby's therapist tells her, which is just about the most important thing a young person can hear, and somehow, despite the far-fetched nature of this film, comes off as inspiring.

The rehearsal is interrupted by the arrival of Claire (Ms. Burstyn), Jon's domineering mom — she enters reciting a monologue of Lady Macbeth's — who has decided to return to the stage in a role based on herself, despite the far-from-flattering portrait her son has created.

This enabled him both to bag some two-thirds of Mr Le Pen's voters, despite the far-right leader's appeal to his supporters to abstain, and to secure the same share (40%) of the centrist vote as Ms Royal, despite a declaration by the centrist candidate, François Bayrou, that he would not vote for Mr Sarkozy.In some parts of France Ms Royal did very well.

However, despite the far-reaching effects and significance of this topic on both an individual (students who have dropped out) and a public level, very few published studies have actually focused on the effectiveness of interventions or specific strategies for confronting the problem.