Despite Leonard's assessment, the game was played by 75,000 people in the first week of its release.

Despite the state's grim assessment, the field of candidates who would like to run the city continues to lengthen.

Despite his assessment of the United States team, Maggert insisted he did not expect a one-sided match.

Despite his earlier assessment of Mitchell, the guy was actually beginning to grow on him.

Despite his personal assessment, friends and other poets sent many letters to Lowell congratulating him.

Despite his sometimes humble and insecure assessment of himself Khan doesn't come across as an unfulfilled man.

Despite your captain's remarkably ingenuous assessment, these people spring from an armed and neurotic society, poised always on the edge of violence.

Despite Mr. Cohen's upbeat assessment, the military agreement has enough ambiguity to cause confusion and possible problems.

Despite his optimistic assessment, high-ranking Pentagon officials said the air war has produced no evidence that Iraqi forces will give up or collapse soon.

This was despite his assessment that "the risk of a second global recession and financial crisis, at least as bad as 2008, cannot be discounted".