Sentence examples for despite the vigorous from inspiring English sources

Despite the vigorous opposition of every major airline, this arrangement was permitted.

Despite the vigorous recovery that the economy enjoyed in 1983 and 1984, the participation rate didn't get back to 65percentnt until nearly the end of 1985.

It had been a bust: no unknown billionaire had stepped forward with forty-five million dollars to invest, and the viola remained unsold, despite the vigorous ambassadorship of David Carpenter, both at Sotheby's and in multiple television appearances.

Most of the justices on Monday appeared prepared to apply that decision to the federal guidelines, despite the vigorous effort of Paul D. Clement, the acting solicitor general, to persuade the court otherwise.

Yet despite the vigorous defence that some building societies have mounted, the Bradford & Bingley conversion is an important landmark in their long and steady decline as a force in British banking.Elsewhere in Europe, the mutual banks' future looks less grim.

The government hopes the new law will preclude challenges to its investigatory practices under the Human Rights Act.Perhaps because of its recondite theme, the law's passage created less of a stir than it deserved to, despite the vigorous opposition it provoked among businesspeople, peers, trade unions and the civil-liberties lobby.

He was reelected in 1812, despite strong opposition and the vigorous candidacy of DeWitt Clinton.

The play only faintly enriches the story, despite the actors' vigorous efforts and the script's flashes of absurdist wit.

Ambassador noted that a Tier 3 ranking remained a possibility despite the UAEG,s vigorous efforts since mid-March with UNICEF, IOM, and others.

Despite the recent vigorous research efforts and progress in this field, the sensitive and selective detection of CTCs with clinically sufficient purity still remains a technical challenge because of the rarity of CTCs in blood (one CTC in the background of 10 10 hematologic cells).

It brings together clear reporting of the complicated business details with a wonderful feeling for the macho attitudes and extraordinary vanities of Houston, scene of the crime and of the forthcoming trial despite the vigorous efforts of the defendants to have it moved elsewhere.