Sentence examples for notwithstanding, before from inspiring English sources

"People like Jimmy Carr and Dara Ó Briain really like doing corporates," we hear, and they fetch around £20,000 per gig. Lee interviews comics including Jo Brand and Ed Byrne, to explain the attraction of the corporate gig (cash notwithstanding), before her namesake Stewart Lee – quelle surprise – represents the refuseniks.

Books that got read, their length and complexity notwithstanding, because before talk shows and chat rooms, what else was there to do?

They only care (and rightfully so) that the Knicks are winning now and they weren't before, circumstances notwithstanding.

"If there is forcible compulsion, that's a very serious case of rape notwithstanding what happened minutes before".

In this scene, Lessing sketches out a "Faust without evil" whose relentless spirit of inquiry is justified before God, notwithstanding his pact with the devil.

Exceptions like "Before Sunrise" notwithstanding, most people's getting-to-know-you moments are, if portrayed authentically, remarkable only in their banality.

Yet even before 1991, notwithstanding the widespread exploitation of Gazan workers, the daily interaction between them and Israeli employers was rarely represented in the media.

It would be a surprise if the 43-year-old did not complete a major clean sweep before retirement, notwithstanding his historic agonies in the US Open.

The loss notwithstanding, investors liked the move — before the market was disappointed by the Federal Reserve.

Reggie Miller's comments before the series notwithstanding, the Indiana Pacers do have some mushy feelings toward the Knicks.

Think of the Notorious B.I.G., all brio, proclaiming himself "black and ugly as ever," just before insisting — ugliness notwithstanding — that "girls pee-pee when they see me".