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Example sentences for: despite

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Despite the known impact of smoking on cardiovascular disease progression, few studies have examined the impact of smoking cessation on levels of inflammatory markers or on cardiovascular risk reduction [6,32].
Labor costs constitute more than 80 percent of the agency's expenditures--a figure that has remained steady since 1970, despite the billions of dollars spent on automation.
Chatterbox has a terrible confession to make: He went to see The Blair Witch Project yesterday and, despite trying very, very hard to be scared, wasn't.
As seen in this movie ( Additional File 3), the majority of the cells in the field of view (16 out of 24) undergo zeiosis, yet there is no ethidium uptake over the time frame examined, despite the higher concentration of MTX employed.
The first is that the stock fell sharply despite the fact that pretty much every serious analyst who covers the company said that if the stock sold off, investors should treat it as a buying opportunity.