Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet DESPITE

Definition av DESPITE

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• His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.
• Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness.
• Around a dozen private radio stations are on the air, despite high licensing fees, some run by religious or other non-profit groups.
• Transport Infrastructures are much more developed than they are other West African countries despite a crisis that restrained their maintenance and development.
• The new nation was defined as consisting of the entire archipelago, despite the fact that France maintains control over Mayotte.
• He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors.
• This rare phenomenon ends up forming an immense natural island, roughly the Guyana Shield, and thus technically the world's second largest, after Greenland, despite there not being a consensus on its island status.
• A well-known legend attached to the site, first recorded in 1630 by Tristram Risdon, concerns a wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection.
• The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declined drastically around the 1980s, despite being home to vast potential in natural resources and mineral wealth; their gross domestic product is $69.
• The term "doublespeak" derives from two concepts in George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, "doublethink" and "Newspeak", despite the term itself not being used in the novel.
• The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end.
• Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that prioritize the existence of the human individual, study existence from the individual's perspective, and conclude that, despite the absurdity or incomprehensibility of the universe, individuals must still embrace responsibility for their actions and strive to lead authentic lives.
• His theories dominated psychiatry at the start of the 20th century and, despite the later psychodynamic influence of Sigmund Freud and his disciples, enjoyed a revival at century's end.
• After Díaz claimed to have won the fraudulent election of 1910 despite promising a return to democracy, Madero started the Mexican Revolution to oust Díaz.
• It is the earliest surviving assertion of the perpetual virginity of Mary, meaning her virginity not just prior to the birth of Jesus, but during and afterwards, and despite being condemned by Pope Innocent I in 405 and rejected by the Gelasian Decree around 500, became a widely influential source for Mariology.
• The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra, and David McFadzean, and, despite not being a favorite with critics, it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the United States during the 1990s, winning many awards.

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