Sentence examples for leaving despite from inspiring English sources

Marina resists the idea of leaving, despite the difficulties of her life in Soviet Russia.

He is not retiring but he is leaving, despite being ever-present this season and being the goalkeeper with the second most saves in the division and being more than good enough to continue.

His 16-page play, "Falling Away," is a conversation between a man and a woman who are in love, yet the woman is in a relationship with someone else whom she cannot imagine leaving despite her unhappiness.

An unnamed hotel manager in Cairo told Al-Masry Al-Youm, an Egyptian newspaper, that "more than 45 clients insisted on leaving despite the hotel's offer to relocate them to higher floors, away from the clashes".

Our shadowy narrator seems to be struggling against time, and against his own material -- trying to erase his authorial presence, but leaving, despite (or because of) his best efforts, a trail of anxious footnotes in the sand.

Uber exited China when it sold its local business to rival Didi, LinkedIn's head of China is leaving despite some successes, while the jury is still out on Airbnb, which made its local push as recently as March.

But many left despite having good jobs in the city.

He left despite his lord's refusal of permission.

The moon is singing; the rain is falling through the maple leaves, despite the starry sky.

He leaves despite the club admitting he had achieved his target.

The patients left despite assurances that the newcomers would be kept in isolation.