Sentence examples for when in spite of from inspiring English sources

The term refractory shock is applied when, in spite of apparently adequate therapy, the shock state continues.

But there was a fresh twist this week when, in spite of the agreement, prosecutors suddenly called for a suspended one-month sentence for Marques.

He was on holiday when – in spite of his wishes – BBC bosses announced that they'd be uniting Evans and Bleakley, the presenter he had mentored.

The coup de grace, of course, came when, in spite of all the west's sabre-rattling, it was a diplomatic overture by Russian president Vladimir Putin that resulted in an agreement with the Syrian government to destroy its chemical weapons.

What the hell do they think people are going to say when, in spite of what the papers tell us about how gay cabals are running the country and the media, that homophobia doesn't exist any more and stigma is dead and what a whiney lot we are, they are wrong.

But he survived then, as he survived, just, politically in 1998 when, in spite of his unpopularity with parts of the managerial elite, enough Czechs seemed to feel they still needed the element of reassurance his presence in the president's lodgings provided; there he remained until 2003 when he stepped down.

This is made clear near the end of the Discourse, when he explains why, in spite of his reservations, he has published the book under his own name: "I am not excessively fond of glory indeed if I dare to say so, I dislike it in so far as I regard it as opposed to that tranquility which I value above everything else….

On the fifth day, when Rupban in spite of herself was beginning to wish that Fate would hurry and make up its mind, Nazneen clamped her mouth around the nipple so that a thousand red-hot needles ran through Rupban's breast and made her cry out for pain and for the relief of a good and patient woman.

Which is why, in 1987, when Falcone - in spite of his success with the Maxi Trial - failed in his attempt to become chief prosecutor of Palermo, he could say to his friends, "I am a dead man".

When Meg decides, in spite of Stanley's denial, that this day is her boarder's birthday, she plans a party and invites Goldberg and McCann.

My fellow pilgrims and I leave the Anne Frank House trying to comprehend the contrast between the unimaginable horrors of Anne's final months and her powerful, unshaken faith in humanity when she wrote, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart".