Meaning of for all | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In spite of, despite.
2. Applying to every element of a set; the universal quantifier ∀.
   literally

Examples

“For all his protests, he was forced to have a bath.”

“For all that she was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these things with unaverted eyes.”

“Maguire made an horrendous meal of the most basic piece of work to make it a treble helping of dreadful defending by England and for all the flair and fantasy of their attacking play there is no hiding away from the fact this is a serious weakness.”

“Collins' death can be put down to his devil-may-care attitude—his decision to journey through hostile territory in a large convoy, the inadequate choice of the members of the convoy, and the tactics he adopted in the ambush. For all the debate about ballistics and entry and exit wounds, and the use of powerful historical imaginations, it matters more that Collins was killed than how he was killed. Concentration on the events at Béal na mBláth has, moreover, often meant a failure to place them in the overall context of the war.”

“For all x in A, x² is even.”

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