The opening of the Vimy Memorial drew criticism for its secular nature-no clergy were invited to speak-despite the religious symbolism of much of the building.
Coulter was hesitant to speak in more detail, saying she required permission from the campaign to speak, despite her status as an unpaid volunteer.
For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
Several former employees also took the risk of speaking, despite the confidentiality provisions that CMGI regularly writes into its severance agreements; they, too, requested anonymity.
The two players never made eye contact during the game and did not speak despite praying together in the postgame circle at halfcourt.
The Guardian was among witnesses who watched as, for three minutes, Lockett fought against his restraints and attempted to speak, despite having been officially declared unconscious.
He has a sense of being at ease with himself — a low center of gravity, so to speak, despite his prowess at the vertical game.
But Lanzmann didn't make a film about the Holocaust or an evocation of the Holocaust; he filmed the Holocaust itself, with the faith that the bearing of witness is itself the ultimate representation — and he conveys the sense of a supremely moral mission as he presses his subjects to speak despite their anguish, fear, or shame.
My brother and I made fun of her overly polite way of speaking: despite the fact that she and my grandmother were friends, they would address each other as "Madam" while falling happily upon the oily crescent rolls and cheese toasts that Bekir had brought them straight from the oven.
