1. She showed great endurance in the face of pain.

2. He flew in the face of me.

3. The soldiers came on in the face of heavy fire.

4. We won the contract in the face of stiff competition.

5. The battalion stood its ground in the face of repeated attacks.

6. In the face of the new evidence he had to climb down and admit he had been wrong.

6. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

7. They are still temporizing in the face of what can only be described as a disaster.

8. They united in the face of a common enemy.

9. We are powerless in the face of such forces.

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

11. We should compose ourselves in the face of fear.

12. He succeeded in the face of great difficulties.

13. The scheme collapsed in the face of determined opposition.

14. He showed complete fearlessness in the face of danger.

15. He retreated in the face of strong opposition.

16. The campaign continued in the face of great opposition.

17. They felt powerless in the face of disaster.

18. They showed great perseverance in the face of difficulty.

19. He remained firm in the face of the enemy.

20. She showed great courage in the face of danger.

21. Small traders cannot compete in the face of cheap foreign imports.

22. The company denies, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that smoking causes cancer.

23. The world community should not flinch in the face of this challenge.

24. Small grocery stores are going out of business in the face of stiff competition from the large supermarket chains.

25. I couldn't bear that Mother should scold me in the face of my friends.

26. The Prime Minister has called for national unity in the face of the violent anti-government protests.

27. The proposal had perished in the face of determined opposition.

28. The little boy behaved with great courage in the face of the gunman.

29. It's true that we have been leading a difficult life, for we need not only to be under various external pressures, but also to be in the face of internal perplexities.You would be affected by the warmth of life if someone gives you an understanding look during your bitter struggle.Even a mere glance would make you moved and inpired.

30. That boy behaves so badly that he cares nothing for manners, and spits in the face of all the teachers.

1. She showed great endurance in the face of pain.

2. He flew in the face of me.

3. The soldiers came on in the face of heavy fire.

4. We won the contract in the face of stiff competition.

5. The battalion stood its ground in the face of repeated attacks.

6. In the face of the new evidence he had to climb down and admit he had been wrong.

6. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

7. They are still temporizing in the face of what can only be described as a disaster.

8. We should compose ourselves in the face of fear.

9. In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves, the government devalued the currency twice.

10. The commander bade his men be undaunted in the face of perils.

31. She left home in the face of strong opposition from her parents.

32. He told them not to retreat in the face of opposition from the public.

33. It is amazing how Daniels has survived in the face of such strong opposition from within the party.

34. In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves, the government devalued the currency twice.

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

36. Both companies are worried about losing business in the face of stiff competition.

37. They secured a victory in the face of overwhelming odds.

38. He was unable to deny the charges in the face of new evidence.

39. The policemen bore up to their duty in the face of the terrorists.

40. In the face of mounting pressure,[http:///in the face of.html] the president decided to act.

41. In the face of severe opposition and unrelenting criticism, the task seemed overwhelming.

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

43. They realized it would be suicidal to resist in the face of overwhelming military superiority.

44. The lieutenant had displayed cowardice in the face of the enemy.

45. Emergency services seem impotent in the face of such a disaster.

46. The soldier's courage was partly caused by his ability to keep cool in the face of danger.

47. The police were accused of inaction in the face of a possible attack.

48. Any soldier displaying cowardice in the face of the enemy was shot.

49. He was shot for desertion in the face of the enemy.

50. The gas companies are having to lay off staff in the face of stiff competition from oil.

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

52. The commander bade his men be undaunted in the face of perils.

53. We won the contest in the face of keen competition .

54. The government backed off in the face of strong opposition.

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

56. The government wilted in the face of such powerful pressure.

57. The aim, it seemed, was to buck up their spirits in the face of the recession.

58. The government performed competently in the face of multiple challenges.

59. Her explanation failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts.

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

61. In the face of pain there are no heroes. George Orwell 

62. His courage and resilience in the face of adversity.

63. In the face of these difficulties, it is remarkable that the spectra of some forty-five NEAs have been studied.

64. No one knows how the law of intellectual property will evolve in the face of such developments.

65. With the breath sucked out of her lungs, she could barely stand upright in the face of the gusts.

66. Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. Robert H. Schuller 

67. Environmental organisations are near to despair in the face of such skilful procrastination.

68. What little the first group was able to accomplish,[http:///in the face of.html] it accomplished in the face of really stupendous odds.

69. Should Janice suffer in silence in the face of continued unfair treatment by her head?

70. Different moral considerations might apply for different people in the face of similar moral dilemmas.

71. Their varied and imaginative tactics grew out of a strong collective identity developed in the face of the hostility they encountered from management.

72. However, in the face of increasing restraint on public expenditure, these have not been notably successful.

73. Babies are weak and vulnerable in the face of huge shapes and loud noises that they can only dimly perceive.

74. In the face of resolute opposition, the bill was withdrawn in November.

75. It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption.

76. He was seen as an enlightened despot pursuing liberal policies in the face of dogmatic reaction from priests and landlords.

77. The union settled, in the face of the Government's public criticisms, for a fifteen percent pay rise.

78. He gained experience and developed skills in staying calm in the face of abuse, working under pressure and organising his time.

79. It allows organisms to protect their essential dynamical properties in the face of environmental changes by varying less essential dynamical properties.

80. At the same time, I knew they were stupid fantasias but believed that I was helpless in the face of them.

81. All this was achieved in the face of difficulties which deterred men with less gusto than Thomas and John Mason.

82. I felt dreadfully inadequate in the face of this material.

83. Law makers, givers and enforcers should show more understanding and sympathy in the face of intolerable provocation.

84. In the face of such opposition, those managements with the wit to explore alternative strategies have adopted a range of techniques.

85. In the face of competing claims on scarce resources, the allocation process can also become highly political.

86. In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster.

87. It flings its fine hairs in the face of the assailant, in a dense cloud.

88. Talk of ignorance in the face of the most blatant hint.

89. All of this construction took place, of course, in the face of the most severe weather conditions imaginable.

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

91. The people of Holy Trinity espouse similar values in the face of an unpersuaded Catholic hierarchy.

92. Internationalists had their explanations for that, of course, but these failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts.

93. In the face of potential starvation, honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa, but they learn to avoid being clubbed.

94. By adaptability I mean the ability of a system to continue to function in the face of an uncertain or unknown environment.

95. Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. Malcolm X 

96. Chris Patten deserves an award for endurance as well as resilience in the face of adversity.

97. By then it was 1997 and a new challenge arose: maintaining performance in the face of plummeting prices.

98. Getting to use a whole extra rank of weapons in the face of a charge can come in very handy.

99. In the face of academic criticism, Black Paper stridency and research like that of Bennett,[] political intervention was inevitable.

100. Children today seem less willing to seek out challenges and persevere in the face of adversity.

101. At that time many amalgamations were the outcome of defensive alliances in the face of international competition and declining markets.

102. Even in cities which generally fared well in the face of federal budget cuts, the impacts in these areas were significant.

103. In other words, they make him feel less helpless in the face of adversity.

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

105. The demonstration went ahead on March 28 amid high tension, and in the face of a huge police and troop presence.

106. All agreed to drop their usual hostility and join forces in the face of this unprecedented threat.

107. In the face of all this, public opinion has remained remarkably level-headed.

108. Having come to power that year, she was advocating a strong stance in the face of the Soviet arms build-up.

109. I was inspired by her optimism in the face of such desperate conditions.

110. Other players have sacrificed or accepted changes that have been difficult to stomach in the face of losing.

111. To be the hired help is to be helpless in the face of taunts and insults.

112. In the face of this evidence, no conclusion should be drawn either way at present.

113. All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity.

114. This self-sufficiency in the face of tragedy must have deeply influenced Agnes, who was seven when her father died.

115. Because in the face of an injustice he will rant and rave.

116. Other trials have been abandoned in the face of local opposition.

117. It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence.

118. These movements appear as dispersed resistance, but they also are a form of collective action in the face of the crisis.

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

120. Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?

121. Optimism and energy, especially in the face of adversity, are defining characteristics of our clan.

122. However, progress in treating cancer has not been great enough to lower the death rate in the face of increased incidence.

123. The President has been accused of being spineless in the face of naked aggression.

124. For conservatives it represented the vanity of social engineering and the breakdown of the liberal state in the face of impossible demands.

125. In the face of severe local competition, matters went from bad to worse.

126. My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work.

127. His business declined through the 1850s in the face of increasing competition,[http:///in the face of.html] though his scientific interests continued undiminished.

128. Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Nelson Mandela 

129. They are impotent in the face of a centralised, powerful state.

130. The disclosure of Labour's latest spoiling tactic highlighted renewed confidence at Millbank in the face of dire Tory poll results.

131. None the less the young couple eventually married, which in the face of so much Glover resistance undoubtedly took some strength and resolve.

132. Yet in the face of this particular story such sentiments can seem like pious claptrap.

133. All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical jargon.

134. Hopes of a compromise peace stood no chance in the face of Franco's determination to pursue the Republic's unconditional surrender.

135. The organisers have been granted a licence in the face of strong local objections.

136. He's trying everything, in the face of having to ask Yeb a big favour.

137. In the face of such damning evidence Jakobs had little defence against the charge of being a spy.

138. Yet the defence of the welfare state in the face of the new immigration has revealed an undercurrent of racism.

139. In the face of all the forces of modern salesmanship, it still rules, almost undefiled, in the textbooks.

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

141. In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. Barack Obama 

142. And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition, she never lost her composure.

143. His own career is an exemplar of survival in the face of absurdity as well as adversity.

144. This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.

145. In the face of the current crisis in contract doctrine, however, recent studies have partially overcome this disciplinary isolation.

146. I shall recommend ways of keeping cool in the face of severe provocation.

147. They have shown a total lack of interest in joint action in the face of rising fuel prices.

148. I had not imagined him as some one who would cower in the face of death.

149. Eight industrial proposals on the November ballot went down hard in the face of overwhelming voter disapproval.

150. The chain has battened down the hatches in the face of the storms.

151. In the face of a self-defeating organizational behavior pattern, a person of this sort has little choice other than to fight.

152. Similar considerations helped to explain the survival of the provincial dailies in the face of competition from the nationals.

153. Two years ago, he arrived battered, beaten and fighting for survival in the face of Republican victories in 1994.

154. Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.

155. And yet, in the face of this record, some of my headline-grabbing opponents are asking me to resign!

156. What good was his precept in the face of such power and majesty?

157. Henceforth the Painswick cloth mills gradually closed in the face of competition.

158. In the face of strong temptation,[http:///in the face of.html] Janet dashes the bottle to the floor and rushes to Paddington to see Tryan.

159. The nominal stock of money, M 1, is assumed to remain unchanged in the face of balanced deflation.

160. It is when we make an attempt to clarify it that the confidence begins to desert us in the face of difficulties.

161. How nobly they fought to maintain their dignity in the face of such awful hardship and humiliation.

162. All of Callinicos' philosophical sophistication and matchless political experience evaporate in the face of the art of his own lifetime.

163. Resilience - to remain steadfast in the face of adversity. 7.

164. Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.

165. East Kilbride development corporation has this morning rejected the planning application by Elm Energy in the face of strong public opposition.

166. Will the Act remain effective in the face of technical development?

167. But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front.

168. This group, they argue, still feels insecure and worries about its fate in the face of another economic downturn.

169. Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot, his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror.

170. Such talk in the face of disaster is necessary and admirable - but not terribly convincing.

171. This hopefulness in the face of difficulties is a mark of Humphrey's novels.

172. That concept is irrational and unworkable because it flies in the face of everything we know about human nature.

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

174. Calm in the face of danger, President Herrera spoke to the troops and ordered them to remain loyal to the government.

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

176. In the face of fame the Bavarian has managed to retain his identity, keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

177. It was the first and last time that management capitulated in the face of a departing mortgage trader.

178. In the face of the city's desperation he expressed his melancholy through his painting.

179. They had brought a modest decline in the face of extreme boom conditions, but no collapse.

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

181. Many other groups of specialists have also withered away in the face of data processing.

182. I want to talk in metaphors of heat, of burning, of barriers melting down in the face of irresistible passions.

183. The ethanol rebounds, twists, and suddenly wedges tight into a small crevice in the face of the enzyme.

184. In the face of enduring human callousness how can man persist with his compromises?

185. It was an error to take the long view in the face of moral objections.

186. In the face of the real danger to the boys in combat,[] everything at home seemed temporary.

187. This is the last in our great ￡25,000 series of slump-busting contests to help you laugh in the face of Lamont.

188. Unlike my hosts I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity.

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

190. In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.

191. It certainly was a curious experience to flaunt one's religion in the face of London.

192. The legal question is how far the trust can be respected in the face of the onslaught of creditors.

193. Job sharers scored high marks on problem solving, team work and flexibility and demonstrated greater resilience in the face of setbacks.

194. Many parents and teachers back down in the face of a massive tantrum.

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

196. It is amazing how Daniels has survived in the face of such strong political opposition.

197. But behind the expressed reasons for antagonism or inertia in the face of proposals for harmonization lies a more fundamental consideration.

198. Luck will change - good luck is always preceded by bad luck and bad luck often ends in good luck, and if you do not give up in the face of bad luck, you are likely to be rewarded with good luck. Dr T.P.Chia 

199. In primary polydipsia, hyponatremia and hypotonicity occur in the face of maximal urinary dilution because water intake simply exceeds water excretion.

200. When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me, I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness.

201. Put another way much of the conventional wisdom looks rather tired in the face of emerging realities.

202. Starr had argued that there never should be a right to such secrecy in the face of a grand jury subpoena.

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

204. Normality should be our aim too, but spartan endurance in the face of pain is not the answer.

205. Human caprice crumbles before this necessity; there can be no human autonomy in the face of technical autonomy.

206. Much good meat is wasted in the face of such excessive numbers.

207. The people are brave, resilient, humorous, friendly in the face of great change and adversity.

208. In the face of mounting budget and funding cuts, they say the income is crucial for survival.

209. Instead, have fun with our great ￡25,000 series of slump-busting contests and laugh in the face of Lamont.

210. He struggled on in the face of mounting debts, but his days as a Niagara entrepreneur were over.

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

212. The mayor, Pietro Giubilo, had to quit in the face of corruption allegations involving companies linked to Communion and Liberation.

213. Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation!

214. Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present.

215. In the face of an epidemic which was sweeping away our friends and lovers, we sought help where we could.

216. Last month, the company announced huge losses and major layoffs in the face of faltering stock prices.

216. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

217. In domestic society the authority of the state guarantees order in the face of the human potential for evil.

218. Within days, in the face of public criticism, this had been cut back to ￡ 1.2m.

219. Anyone who exhibits extreme anxiety in the face of potential danger is unlikely to become an effective military leader.

220. In the face of the hard, driving snow, the stage slowed.

221. According to regional marketing manager David Asquith the contract was clinched in the face of stiff competition.

222. She somehow manages to keep laughing in the face of adversity.

223. This flies in the face of the most fundamental principles of the historian's - or indeed any scholarly - profession.

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

225. Similarly, it is indefensible to be inactive in the face of third world poverty and famine.

226. These can include either a loss of control or a tendency to freeze in the face of attack.

227. Even so, he could see something of himself in her; that same hardness in the face of adversity.

228. In the face of such talent, not to say courage, how could I expose her?

229. In the face of the need for such massive expenditures, the average citizen is overwhelmed.

230. All too often these individuals will run out of money in the face of managed care denials and low lifetime limits.

231. In the face of these contradictions, she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate.

232. There was, it seemed, nothing more that they could do here, in the face of this masterly inactivity.

233. How does basic scientific research fare in the face of so much application interest?

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

235. To persevere in the face of her attachment to Kip seemed immoral, I assured myself.

236. And yet most remarkable of all is his coolness in the face of massive inexperience.

237. Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.

238. In the face of economic hardship, union women have gone beyond the limited reformism of their labor federations.

239. Her courage in the face of death is an example to us all.

240. Even in the face of all the pain and confusion, however, opportunities abound.

241. 'Jane Eyre' is Bronte's classic novel of courage in the face of despair.

242. In the face of mounting political and industrial unrest, Asquith may have been anxious to head-off further confrontation with feminists.

243. It would explode in the face of its inventors without that tiny heart of a self.

244. It appeared to represent a retreat in the face of international criticism.

245. But Rolex thrived in the face of disruptive technologies.

246. Marcus remained placid in the face of her outburst.

247. He was unruffled in the face of difficulty.

248. Ignoble fear in the face of danger or pain.

249. He flies in the face of public disapproval.

250. Do subordinates, superiors in the face of unbridled drinking.

251. They retreated in the face of withering enemy fire.

252. Is Asian American identity feasible in the face of diversity or not?

253. Repeated price hikes in the face of unchanging demand can be a formula for economic suicide.

254. We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.

255. Former President Nixon's behavior in the face of the Watergate disclosures is a case in point.

256. We too can learn from his example of steadfastness in the face of opposition.

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

258. In the face of irrefutable evidence, a confession of the crime - the facts.

259. It was difficult to remain equanimous in the face of such preposterous impertinence.

260. He who knows only how to wield a pen usually feels quite helpless in the face of practical problems.

261. In the face of such irrefutable facts, he was struck dumb.

262. But, In the face of all that is transpiring, I realize how meager my knowledge is.

263. A man should remain unyielding in the face of brutal force!

264. In the face of secession, we unified a nation and set the captives free.

265. In the face of the implacable evil witnessed this week, the answer may have changed.

266. Oil buoyancy in the face of all this points to the effect of cheap money.

267. It flies in the face of the principle of comparative advantage.

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

269. Another thorny issue involves controlling inflation in the face of emerging market forces.

270. Even though , as we've established , Arizona tends to cry in the face of authority figures.

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

272. They have maintained their optimism in the face of desolating subjugation.

273. He was free from all sycophancy or obsequiousness in the face of the reactionary ruling class.

274. In the face of it, Vichy France was folding up.

275. In the face of insuperable difficulties(/in the face of.html), we maintain our courage and will to resist.

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

277. I recognize the dangers subtlety and nuance in the face of the conservative movement's passionate intensity.

278. Usually , however, such heresy - hunts peter out quickly in the face of faculty solidarity.

279. Confessor: One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution but does not suffer martyrdom.

280. Its mechanical accumulation liberates unlimited artificiality, in the face of which living desire is helpless.

281. Our arguments fell to pieces in the face of the sagacious old man.

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

283. Winston Churchill exemplified integrity arid respect in the face of opposition.

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

285. Controls should remain workable in the face of changed plans, unforeseen circumstances, or outright failures.

286. Roosevelt was defiant in the face of the bad news.

287. The balloon was lightly flying in the face of an east wind.

288. The charm of canals lies in their survival in the face of irrelevance.

289. What a tribute to his ability not to flinch in the face of storm and stress!

290. He did not change colour in the face of his opponent.

291. If we flinch in the face of this high - tech barbarity.

292. In the face of mass rioting, the old shibboleths were reduced to embarrassing emptiness.

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