Sentence examples for speech in spite of from inspiring English sources

William Henry Harrison, known for America's shortest presidency, forcefully insisted on giving his inaugural speech in spite of the dreadfully cold, wet weather.

Since both tracks are produced by using different databases from different speakers, the resulting signal will sometimes contain a visual speech fragment for which it is hard to believe that it could have been the source of the accompanying auditory speech (in spite of both tracks separately being of acceptable quality).

It's more like "in spite of".

Mr. Griffith-Jones had made a slashing attack in his final speech, and in spite of Mr. Gardiner's brilliant and persuasive defending address, the general opinion in the lobby seemed to be that the jurors would not take long to come up with a verdict against Penguin.

The government, though, is determined to press on: Lord's reform represented a key section of the Queen's speech last week, in spite of the warnings of some Tory MPs, who think it a crazy and expensive distraction.

On the eve of D-Day, Hill roused his men with an inspirational speech that concluded: 'In spite of your excellent training and orders do not be daunted if chaos reigns.

In both these cases of assertion and promise, I am now no longer beholden to the commitments that the speech acts engender in spite of the fact that the past is fixed.

He never learned that the felt pads on which telephones rest absorbed the pencil raps, and that his speech came through clearly in spite of his drumming.

More elaborated domain-independent techniques to automatically build threads based on speech understanding are still required in spite of the recent efforts in that direction [36, 37].

In the eyes of most decent and sensitive people – and particularly in the eyes of stammerers – to do Balls's job with (and in spite of) a speech impediment is immensely courageous.

In the interviews, he praised Hong Kong as a place with a strong tradition of free speech and a working judicial system, in spite of having been returned to Chinese sovereignty.