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Discover LudwigThe phrase "notwithstanding how" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is typically used to introduce a contrasting or unexpected situation or fact, and is often interchangeable with "despite how." Here is an example: "Notwithstanding how much I studied, I still failed the exam." In this sentence, the speaker is expressing surprise or frustration that despite their efforts to study, they still did not succeed on the exam. Another example could be: "Notwithstanding how much we budgeted for the project, we still went over budget." In this sentence, the speaker is highlighting the unexpected outcome of going over budget despite their previous plans and efforts.
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Notwithstanding how they dressed or wore their hair, their lives were superficially similar to ours.
QUESTION FROM PAM RIDER: Music antinukers notwithstanding, how do you stand on the cautions of scientists such as Rocky Mountain Institute director Amony Lovins.
Notwithstanding how simplistic it is – how, for example, it collapses a deeply complex and, particularly in these times, urgent question, into a binary choice (as though such things are ever a choice) – I nonetheless welcomed her intervention as I hoped it might provoke a more thoughtful conversation about the meaning of citizenship in the 21st century.
"Notwithstanding how upsetting it has been, some of this debate, some of the really hateful things that have been said including by Malcolm Turnbull's own team, I think it has been heart warming in many ways, people's response to our kids, when our daughters were born".
Having the cover of Al Sharpton notwithstanding, how could you make light of one of America's darkest hours?
Notwithstanding how disparate these experiences appear to be, they have all taught me how important it is to follow your passion and how customer service is everything.
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That Don Cheadle exposed his glutes notwithstanding, but how much more interesting would his show have been had he'd dared flout the premiere cable mandate to hyper-sexualize his show.
The question becomes increasingly relative as we consider--with the sustained popularity of Cindy Sherman notwithstanding--how much more acclaim and sustained market value has been heaped on subsequent generations of image makers who have proven themselves to be more protean as artists aesthetically, conceptually, semiotically and politically.
Notwithstanding these advances, how the molecular machinery works together to govern the migration process has yet to be fully understood.
Our specific clipboard savvy notwithstanding, "the issue of how humans view gravity is evolutionarily useful," he said.
When I asked Noriega how, notwithstanding his C.I.A. link, he had also managed to be friendly with Fidel Castro, he claimed that it was the Americans who had instigated that relationship.
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