Sentence examples for despite the raised from inspiring English sources

"We have ministers in their twenties who don't remember how the Soviet Union looked", he said proudly, despite the raised eyebrows this often causes among foreign dignitaries.

Despite the raised voices and stinging oratory, local officials insisted at the meeting that it would be unfair to characterize Weehawken as a community sharply divided over Port Imperial South, and the Friends insisted their intent was not to block the project, but to preserve the view of the river and ensure open access to it.

Despite the raised awareness of the dangers that concussions and head trauma present to NFL players, Oakland Raiders middle linebacker Rolando McClain was permitted to remain in his team's Week 2 loss to the Miami Dolphins after suffering a head injury, as first reported by Jerry McDonald of the Oakland Tribune.

Despite the raised pre-operative titres of antibody to brucella antigen and high prevalence of brucellosis in this region, the possibility of the cord lesion to be of Brucella origin was not considered pre-operatively, probably because of the rarity of brucella abscess in the spinal cord.

Interestingly, the effect of leptin on food intake was absent, as evident from similar increases in body weight in control and leptin treated rats, despite the raised serum leptin levels during pregnancy and this is believed to be due to concurrent leptin resistance that develops during pregnancy.

A study conducted by Harrison et al. [ 17] in primary care centers through the United States showed that, despite the recommendations raised by the USPSTF, only the 2.3% of the physicians performed the screening for depression.

Despite the issues raised by the report, the Harper government has continued to dismiss the idea of holding a national inquiry into the matter.

Cuban plantation owners were among those who insisted on continuing the slave trade, despite the controversies raised between the Spanish and British governments.

Despite the issues raised by the use of the criterion of homology, we feel that it also presents important advantages.

In time, opinion might well have accepted Terray's and Maupeou's reforms, despite the outcry raised by the parlements' supporters, who argued that the arbitrary uprooting of these centuries-old institutions threatened to turn France into a "ministerial despotism".

Despite the concerns raised by the ambitious UK projections, governments worldwide are keen to follow the UK's lead and to learn from its mistakes.