Sentence examples for despite threatening from inspiring English sources

But the Yankees are down another run, and despite threatening almost every inning, can't seem to score a run.

The talks would explain the silence from Microsoft this week as it has refused to disclose its plans, despite threatening to bring a proxy contest if Yahoo didn't reach a deal with it by last Saturday.

Despite threatening Louisville and Cincinnati, occupying Lexington and even installing a Confederate governor in command, the great Southern invasion of Kentucky in 1862 produced nothing more than a few wagons, horses, guns and barrels of whiskey.

But despite threatening to stay away, Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein are attending the talks, and the one glimmer of hope is the presence of Mr Mitchell, who alone among political figures in Northern Ireland has yet to become a scapegoat.

Despite threatening to leave every year since 2013, Louis Walsh – whose hair is oddly more luxuriant and his skin tauter than ever – is the lineup's only mainstay, with T-shirts baring his catchphrase of "You're the new [insert old soul singer's name here]' becoming a Christmas must-have.

It is also a case study in the severe, unintended consequences that the airing of fiercely guarded truths can have for the guardian: despite threatening to kill Mr. Phillips if the article went to press, Mr. Burros, in the end, killed only himself.

Despite threatened cuts at the Pentagon, Boeing's military business including f-15 Strike Eagles, Patriot and Harpoon missiles, Apache Longbow and Chinook helicopters, P-8A Poseidon antisubmarine aircraft is still in good shape.

Many of the poems in Shaker focus on survival despite threatened freedom, lost love, and defeated dreams.

According to critic Carol E. Neubauer, like Angelou's previous poetry collections, "Shaker celebrates the ability to survive despite threatened freedom, lost love, and defeated dreams.

Despite rhetoric threatening renewed conflict on both sides, options for both Israel and Hamas are in fact limited.

However, despite frequently threatening retirement, London-based collective Faithless have proved as difficult to shift as a superbug.