Sentence examples for despite wait from inspiring English sources

Soon Spano, just 32, had reached an agreement in principal to pay $165 million for the Nassau Coliseum team despite — wait for it — possessing little means to do so.

Full-back Ryan Bertrand never feared Chelsea would crash out of the Europa League last night, despite waiting until the final kick of the game to seal their progress to the last 16.

Despite waiting for hours – people started lining up outside the gym around 7 30 a.m., college officials said, and Mr. Obama spoke at 3 p.m. — the crowd was heady with anticipation.

And for some that means that despite waiting they may see worse valuations in the future than now.

But the average length of stay in Canada is 36% higher (7.5 vs. 5.5 days) in part because, as Prof. Danzon explains, "more hospital beds in Canada are occupied by elderly patients with average length-of-stay of over sixty days, despite waiting lists for acute care admissions". The consequence is avoidable suffering as patients wait months rather than weeks for various types of surgery.

Spicer again defended the president, saying that he "took decisive action," despite waiting 18 days after Yates' warning to ask for Flynn's resignation.

Despite waiting six hours for this one decision, I realized that the strength in my voice couldn't be measured by a baggy-eyed executive's judgement.

Despite waiting for many years with no results, the "invalid" man did not seem to have doubted that the system would work for him.

Spicer again defended the president, saying that he "took decisive action," despite waiting 18 days after Yates' warning to ask for Flynn's resignation.

Dotcom told the court that despite waiting for authorities with his hands up, he got punched in the face and kicked.

Though not fully comparable, Scottish waiting times are consistently lower over the whole period despite waiting times in England falling faster than in Scotland between 2002 and 2005.