Sentences with phrase «despite efforts to the contrary»

An inconvenient truth of mainline Protestantism is that, despite efforts to the contrary, it remains the stronghold of WASP Christianity.

And despite any efforts to the contrary, you did look very pretty in the photo in the grey dress at the wedding.

Who: Robert Redford What: After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

In general, the EcoBoost hustles this two - plus - ton SUV around with gusto, and despite efforts to the contrary, my right foot was still able to extract a reasonable 20 MPG average out of my week of mixed city and highway driving.

The heart wants what the heart wants, after all, and despite efforts to the contrary, it's tough to argue against the 640i with the top dropped, the sun in the sky and your own personal stars aligned.

Despite all efforts to the contrary, cancer diagnoses are on the rise, with treatments accounting for huge turnover in the pharmaceutical industry.

Not exact matches

Perhaps Dashboard Confessional founder / frontman Chris Carrabba should have released his new album, Dusk and Summer, as two five - song EPs instead — because, despite the singer / songwriter's best efforts to the contrary — that's exactly what...

It being unchanged despite all the efforts to the contrary is a miracle.

Unfortunately, it did not lead the lovers to God» on the contrary, it led to death without God» but the yearnings - against - their - will, their overwhelming attraction and desire despite their efforts to avert them are of the very same emotional and spiritual and factual material that dramatic religious conversions are made of...

We're working on the whole «cooking together is a privilege so you need to listen» lesson but after the thousandth time her doughy fingers made their way into the raw batter despite my reminders to the contrary, it seemed my efforts were falling short.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jazz Fest organizers don't have any plans to move to the Lakeview Amphitheater next summer, despite county efforts to the contrary.

Jazz Fest organizers don't have any plans to move to the Lakeview Amphitheater next summer, despite county efforts to the contrary.

Both histories show at once the importance of race in the visual culture of the West and the ways in which, despite the strenuous efforts of many to the contrary, the result has been a hybrid creolization» (N. Mirzoeff, Bodyscape: art, modernity and the ideal figure, London and New York, 1995, p. 15).

Essentially, the criminal justice system in this country, despite political efforts to the contrary, is based upon the Open Justice principle.