Sentence examples for despite the strict from inspiring English sources

Despite the strict time frame, many students remain optimistic.

Not all can have been turned off despite the strict instruction.

Nonetheless, union officials believe other EU states manage to protect their domestic interests despite the strict rules.

He got to watch Charlie Chaplin directing, despite the strict closed set at Pinewood for The Countess from Hong Kong (1967), because he turned up with Gloria Swanson.

Despite the strict rules, the game is informal and incredibly fun, according to Giulio Cioncoloni, a volunteer with organisers at the Cultural Association l'Ombrico.

Any hint of insubordination could result in physical restraint, he said, despite the strict state rules limiting the use of force.

Despite the stricter requirements, the Federal Reserve would allow many banks to pay out their capital in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

Despite the stricter rules around violent play and ex-professional's regular complaints about the lost art of defending, the Serb showed that it was still possible to be both a forceful and effective defender in the modern game.

For while milliner Stephen Jones said approvingly – in other important sartorial news – that Ascot was "hattier" than usual, following the historic ban on fascinators in the royal enclosure, the truth is, not everyone at the races looked straight out of Cecil Beaton's My Fair Lady, despite the stricter dress code and all the fashion police patrolling the course.

Despite its affront to the strict Neoclassicism of the day, which forbade the mixing of genres, tragicomedy flourished, especially in England, whose writers largely ignored the edicts of Neoclassicism.

But despite Russians' earnest declamations, the strict maintenance of traditional values is more propaganda than sociological reality.