Sentence examples for despite the slight from inspiring English sources

Despite the slight drop in July, confidence remains well above year-earlier levels.

In this year's race, despite the slight edge that President Obama has nationally according to the current FiveThirtyEight forecast, Mitt Romney seems a solid favorite in Missouri.

North jumped straight to six spades despite the slight risk of two quick heart losers, because he expected a diamond lead.

If oil firms run out of storage capacity before demand begins to pick up, says Mr Currie, prices could yet swoon again.For the moment, global consumption of oil continues to fall, despite the slight brightening of the economic outlook.

Despite the slight resemblance to Pyongyang, this is a modern city.

We therefore don't expect earnings forecasts to change despite the slight miss.

Despite having the slight air of someone who updates his own Wikipedia page, Owen is extraordinarily good value, not least because he lets rip with a succession of major spoilers relating to his character's future.

But it is also partly because, despite turning 50, he has the slight build of a teenager.

Despite these slight fractures, the mother longs to preserve the semi-dysfunctional status quo.

Despite that slight oversight, the British Overseas Territory marked their historic recognition as the newest member of Uefa by holding Slovakia to a goalless draw in Portugal last November.

What will look most odd over the course of a few decades is how Fifa resolutely opposed technology as an aid to referees for years, not showing the slightest interest, despite a succession of embarrassing mistakes, right up until Frank Lampard's non-goal in Bloemfontein in 2010 showed them the foolishness of their ways.