Sentence examples for spite since from inspiring English sources

Might the fans have booed out of spite, since the Dodgers play in an economic league in which the Royals cannot hope to compete? "I don't know," Greinke said.

Studios have been cutting their noses off to spite their faces since the dawn of the blockbuster era.

But in spite of that, since in fact he did do the nasty deed, he does deserve the punishment.

In spite of decreases since the mid'90's, rates remain high--12,253 homicide victims in 2013 and many inner-city dwellers still fear being mugged or murdered.

In spite of pika culls since the 1960s, the alpine rangeland has continued to be degraded and livestock weights have decreased.

The statement continued that, since in spite of their later investigations the police "were never able to conclude that the evidential test for a full charging decision was met" and, because "the state of the case fundamentally remains the same as it was", the CPS stood by its original guidance.

Britain got Gibraltar, as well as Minorca, which changed hands several times before being returned to Spain as part of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.Gibraltar has remained under British control ever since, in spite of various attempts to take it back, including an unsuccessful siege by Spain that lasted for nearly four years until 1783.

Following Stolowy and Breton (2004), they must be considered a form of creative accounting in spite of their legality, since the reported balance no longer truly presents the reality.

Nevertheless, as can be seen in Figure 16, this reprojection is not perfect, since in spite of having applied distance error reduction, the position of the pixels in the image has not been taken into account, and a single correction value is applied which is a function of the measurement distance but not of the pixel position in the image.

Although these two schemes dominate the market today, many problems still remain unsolved, for instance, narrow viewing angle in spite of big improvement since its inception, poor resistance to shock associated with LCDs, complexity in small-area fabrication and UV radiation inherent to PDs.

It is now widely accepted that it is imperative to have multiple promising TB vaccine candidates evaluated in early-phase human studies since in spite of the result from preclinical evaluation, the final verdict regarding the suitability of any vaccine candidate for mass human immunization program cannot be reached until it is evaluated in late phase, large-scale field trials.