In spite of and despite
In spite of and despite are prepositional expressions. …

despite | American Dictionary

despite
preposition
us/dɪˈspɑɪt/
without being influenced or prevented by:
The game continued despite the rain.
Despite her illness, she came to work.

Examples of despite

despite
Despite this, there are striking analogies between the philosophical responses to the problem of underdetermination in the two contexts.
Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process of obtaining a protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically.
Despite numerous attempts to estimate the level of returns to scale in the data, there is no broad agreement in the literature on its value.
Political parties, despite their weaknesses and manipulation, are characteristic of liberal democracy.
Despite the inefficiency, labor services could have survived under previous regimes because of path-dependence.
Yet despite the initial optimism surrounding it, the commission almost immediately suffered setbacks.
Despite the official emphasis on humanism, research and teaching were strongly oriented towards technical and professional training.
Despite these lengthy procedures, there is no in-depth check of the technical aspects of the project.
But despite such differences, they agreed that teaching content was more effectively delivered by their music teachers.
Despite the variety of systems, the objectives guiding these reforms have been rather similar.
However, despite the narrow time gap between assessments, it is possible that there was fluctuation in depressive symptoms between assessments.
Even despite these precautions, age calculation and inter pretation is not straightforward.
Despite the intrinsic usefulness of a six-axis robot, normal utilisation does not reach beyond reiteration of preprogrammed trajectories.
This is despite the fact that the equipment utilised is different for the two treatment types.
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