Sentence examples for despite the sector from inspiring English sources

The pendulum has swung too far in higher education's favour, despite the sector not fulfilling its promises to those it serves.

The government's white paper failed to offer any commitments to UK trawlers over the future, despite the sector having a high profile in the referendum campaign.

Two recent studies said that 73% of actors who responded to a survey were from "middle class" backgrounds - despite the sector accounting for only 29% of the whole population - and that 42% of British Bafta winners went to a fee-paying school.

"Fundamentally, things have not changed and, as a group, technology stocks still appear to be relatively expensive," said Matt Brown, head of equity management at Wilmington Trust, who is not convinced the worst is over, despite the sector's losses.

That is despite the sector accounting for 4% of all employment in the country in the same period.

In this introduction to the topical collection on the "Future of Transport in Europe", we argue that European transport regimes are at a turning point and despite the sector inertia, we can detect cultural, societal, and technical shifts.

Despite that the sector managed just a 0.33 percentage-point contribution to total growth.

But despite this growth, the sector still only represents a fraction of the total energy produced in the UK.

Despite this backdrop, the sector has outperformed the EuroSTOXX in each of the past 3 years (71% since January 2012).

Retail is becoming an increasingly popular destination, despite misconceptions that the sector's employment opportunities begin and end on the shop floor.

Despite the public sector pay freeze announced in 2010, many public sector workers have continued to get pay rises because of contractual obligations to staff.