It's more like "in spite of".
Hidden pearls exist in the world of movies, as well: films that, in spite of being brilliantly crafted and executed, never got the audience they deserved beyond a cult following.
These results suggested that in spite of Japan's efforts to execute an efficient surveillance system, there was a delay of a few weeks in the detection of pandemic influenza transmission.
This is obvious enough, even explicit, in the "Ocean's" franchise, since nearly every heist movie — predicated on an elaborate and improbable plan that must be executed perfectly in spite of all kinds of accidents and contingencies — is really about filmmaking.
That means for instance if you are at a party and you want Alexa to play a Spotify playlist, you could (in theory at least), say the wake word from across a crowded room, give the playlist command and the device would execute it in spite of the noise.
In spite of the effort, the Canadian, Stanley Faulder, was executed.
In spite of its great promise, metabolomics has proven difficult to execute in an untargeted and generalizable manner.
Do it in spite of the fear.
Perform actions in spite of negative thoughts.
In spite of all the predictions of mass arrests Hillary Clinton being thrown in Gitmo and executed by Trump personally, Obama dragged out of his home by The Troops and subjected to a televised military tribunal nothing has happened.
