Sentence examples for despite their poverty from inspiring English sources

Despite their poverty, Edna adored him.

Despite their poverty Aston Villa could have had the match won by half-time.

Despite their poverty, they found money for their pursuits from their scarce savings and some generous benefactors.

The story concerns James and Della Dillingham Young, a young couple who, despite their poverty, individually resolve to give each other an elegant gift on Christmas Eve.

On his last trip, he noticed that despite their poverty, Malawians spend money on perfumed soap, because of the sexy billboards advertising the soap in Lilongwe.

In another Chayevsky piece which started life on television, The Catered Affair (1956, UK title Wedding Breakfast), Borgnine was a Bronx-dwelling Irish cab driver whose wife (Bette Davis) wants to give their daughter (Debbie Reynolds) a handsome wedding, despite their poverty.

Despite their near poverty and his father's drinking problem, Reagan later recalled his childhood in Dixon as the happiest period of his life.

Despite their wretched poverty, they save, collectively, 22.7% of income and four-fifths of that is held in dollars.They also invest abroad.

In one plot, Adrianne, who has run away to avoid her debutante ball, gazes at the street kids who walk by: "They seemed so happy, despite their obvious poverty.

He was, it must be said, working with willing material, in that she had outsize bravado, and despite their extreme poverty (when she first arrived in New York, she slept on benches in Central Park), an instinctive integrity: when she was still stacking books a couple of people "saw potential in me and offered me quite a bit of money to do records as early as 1971, '72, but not in my own way.

Latin American countries, for instance, are among the happiest in the world, despite their relative poverty and often shaky political situations.