Sentence examples for properly, despite from inspiring English sources

In North Carolina, Gary Bartlett, director of the Board of Elections, said his state was handling voter registrations properly, despite concerns raised by the Social Security Administration.

Religious people rarely follow their faith properly, despite claims to the contrary, and are usually more influenced by culture than scripture.

After all this time, we are still waiting for the IPCC investigation to be conducted properly, despite the high court quashing their first investigation nearly two years ago.

The tale of a complicated love triangle, and a death either literal or metaphorical ("my brother, my killer"), it is a song Cohen never thought he finished properly, despite it being one of his greatest.

Time and time again we hear that government departments don't have the data or information that they need to plan or evaluate their activities properly, despite them being responsible for setting up these projects or programmes in the first place.

Unsurprisingly, Rob Wilson, minister for civil society, and Tom Brake, Liberal Democrat MP for Carshalton and Wallington, said "no" and argued that charities are still trying to influence parties and politicians "properly" despite restrictions.

Until then, critics of the present must remain properly otherworldly, despite the taunts of their political opponents.

The inquiry also turned up an anonymous letter received by the Metropolitan police in 1998, which it said was "never properly investigated", despite suggesting that Savile changed his telephone number as a result of a blackmail attempt.

The more they dick about, the more you want to see it being done properly, which, despite telly's ravenous hunger for definable, copyrightable formats, would actually make a more interesting show.

Behind all this lies the legacy of the time when young women's raped and mutilated bodies were regularly found dumped in the desert, their murders almost never properly investigated despite the global attention they grabbed and the Hollywood movies they inspired.

That seems symbolic of the fracturing of the rugby league family that occurred with the nastiness involved in the initial Super League plans of spring 1995, and it is one which has not been properly repaired despite the best efforts of the governing body for the last decade.