Example sentences of "in the face of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is humiliating to be living in debt and squalor in the midst of affluence and bewildering to feel helpless in the face of laws , regulations and procedures that one can not understand . |
| 32 | As MacPherson has argued , the elevation of the vernacular language and literature within higher education was an attempt to sustain the notion of a " liberal education " in the face of tendencies towards academic specialization on the one hand , and the dwindling popularity of classics on the other . |
| 33 | Indeed , it is the sense of mission , so far as the older officers are concerned , which produces resentment in the face of efforts to bureaucratize the job . |
| 34 | One primary school head teacher in whose school pilot testing of pupils was carried out has expressed a willingness to ‘ break the law unless the tests are drastically changed ’ and another school 's head ( probably illegally ) later suspended the tests in the face of parents ' objections . |
| 35 | And he is defiant in the face of critics who say he 's lucky to be selected . |
| 36 | Indeed , the advent of Protestantism gave rise to a number of new superstitious practices , such as the opening of the Bible at random in an attempt to secure divine guidance in the face of problems or dilemmas , a practice that was widespread even among Puritans . |
| 37 | The end product of this highly devolved system of decision-making was an escalating penal crisis that was stubbornly resistant in the face of attempts at reform . |
| 38 | erm and I wonder if our traditions have disappeared because we have had to adapt to working lives and changes in lives , and I wonder if men have held onto theirs in the face of women being a threat to them in working environments and other aspects of their life . |
| 39 | Technically it does not : the right is still upheld in so far as the jury are told that no inferences can be drawn from silence in the face of allegations . |
| 40 | Bush opened his re-election campaign ; one of the Democratic candidates , Governor of Virginia Douglas Wilder , abandoned the race ; and the Democratic front-runner , Bill Clinton , struggled to prevent his challenge from disintegrating in the face of allegations of marital infidelity . |
| 41 | To be the hired help is to be helpless in the face of taunts and insults . |
| 42 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 43 | Given the precedent of 1925 , it is extraordinary that its lessons have not been learnt : the inadvisability of one country pegging its currency to a more powerful one ; the inadvisability , indeed , of that country artificially pegging its currency at all in the face of pressures , speculative and real , which are likely in the fullness of time to force adjustment towards a rate determined by economic forces reflective not of political desire but of relative unit costs between countries . |
| 44 | In the face of misfortunes and petty irritations , of death and daily pain , and the loss of love , she had held to her expectations and they had never let her down . |
| 45 | In the face of protests from the Association of University Teachers , the Education Reform Act abolished tenure for all staff appointed or promoted after 20 November 1987 . |
| 46 | Irradiation helps preserve the shelf-life of perishable food by killing off bacteria , but in the face of protests by consumer groups who allege that it reduces nutritional value , a number of supermarket chains have undertaken not to stock irradiated food . |
| 47 | WHAT a cheek of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs even to consider voting against a freeze on their pay in the face of restraints on other public sector workers . |
| 48 | For all its brilliant rhetoric and endearingly dishonest struggle to regain a masculine integrity , Norman Mailer 's defence of D. H. Lawrence in The Prisoner of Sex conveys finally a certain desperation in the face of apprehensions similar to those which Bersani explores . |
| 49 | Meanwhile , the desire for community unity in Strasbourg in the face of events in Eastern Europe means a flexibly-interpreted communique will emerge from the summit on Saturday . |
| 50 | Soviet design and procurement philosophy displays a prudence and conservatism which reflects well known Soviet constraints , but also an ingenuity in the face of shortages and stringencies that characterises Soviet performance at its best . |
| 51 | Once again , it is fortunate that the theory was not abandoned in the face of falsifications by measurements of the specific heats of gases , as the naive falsificationist at least would be forced to insist . |
| 52 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 53 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 54 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
| 55 | Folk memory , rumour , and first-hand experience combined to warn the street people that obduracy in the face of police pressure offered little profit . |
| 56 | While he advised them to refrain from indulging in personal abuse of Jews … he exhorted them not to retreat in the face of Police persecution and declared that , if necessary , all Fascist speakers should be prepared to face imprisonment rather than comply with the dictum of the authorities that they were not to attack Jewry . |
| 57 | The potential for accidents will always exist , so each individual must become skilled at maintaining safety in the face of hazards inherent in the environment . |
| 58 | It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption . |
| 59 | It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption . |
| 60 | In the face of doubts about the truths of religion , could bereaved parents still take courage and assume that their children 's death meant only a brief separation , the prelude to reunion in happier surroundings ? |