1. He flew in the face of me.

2. He likes to fly in the face of convention.

3. Such a proposal is flying in the face of common sense.

4. To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.

5. His version of events flies in the face of all the evidence.

6. This is an argument that seems to fly in the face of common sense.

7. This approach flies in the face of established practice.

8. The decades since Malthus's time have seen progress of a kind that flies in the face of everything he foresaw.

9. Award-winning entertainment that flies in the face of gravity lands in Tucson for two nights only.

10. It is now generally recognized that the attempt to analyse consciousness in terms of behaviour amounted to flying in the face of the facts./fly in the face of.html

11. However desirable, that might fly in the face of everything the 1984 decree was about.

12. How could a philosophy of government that flew in the face of liberal pessimism win votes?

13. Eysenck's claim flies in the face of all the evidence.

14. Whatever the riddle is called, it flies in the face of 3, 000 years of logical philosophy.

15. This flies in the face of the cautious nature of the Bush administration.

16. I was ready to chuck it all in after a decision that flew in the face of reason.

17. But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.

18. I find this hard to believe since it flies in the face of all the principles of wrestling.

19. Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.

20. His latest proposal flies in the face of conventional cosmogony.

21. His theories fly in the face of business as usual.

22. The "no-strings" investments from Nigeria to Ethiopia fly in the face of Western efforts to link investment with improvements in human rights and the environment.

23. This evidence seems to fly in the face of some of the recent criticism about SOAP.

24. You can't fly in the face of good business rules and expect to be successful.

25. Anyone who is tempted to fly in the face of discretion had better think twice.

26. These performances fly in the face of recent news on Chinese corporate earnings.

27. You can't fly in the face of business rules and expect to be successful.

28. And the warnings and promises on protectionism fly in the face of a series of increased duties, reimposed subsidies and non-tariff barriers erected in the past few months.

29. Shall I abandon myself to a dispirited despair, or fly in the face of the Almighty?