Sentence examples for this happened despite from inspiring English sources

This happened despite the worst worldwide economic crisis since the 1930s.

This happened despite conscription, the year before, of 250,000 Armenians into the Turkish army.

This happened, despite all the nationwide studies demonstrating the benefits of integrated inclusive classrooms for both classified and non-classified students.

All of this happened despite the prosecution admitting in court that no major public order incidences took place on the day.

This happened despite the fact that the fiscal headwinds, structural impediments, unemployment numbers, fragility of the banking system and credit contraction (partly because of the ECB's own asset-quality review) were worse in the euro zone.

And, as anti-nuclear activists complain, all this happened despite the government's generous subsidies to help cover the costs of developing new designs and building prototypes.As for safety...What is worse, nuclear power has a spotty safety record.

This happens despite the fact that Night is "devastated" when not enough cast and crew members show up for his "Wizard of Oz" screening.

Somalia, which has the highest prevalence of FGM in the world, has indicated it would like to end the practice, with a spokeswoman for the ministry for women's affairs saying it was "committed to make this happen" despite significant resistance in the country.

All this happens despite of crystalline structure and chemical composition of UB, which are very different to the properties of typical pozzolans.

This happens despite the Co-op not raising any extra capital, according to the BBC's Robert Peston.

However, and most importantly, the addition of GuNCS restored the values of J sc by positively shifting the E c of TiO2 (that consequently increases the electrons injection efficiency [12]), and this happens despite the fact that the D e- were further decreased (Figure 3b).