Sentence examples similar to and rules in the face of from inspiring English sources

Some students complain that the rules are flying in the face of fashion.

Benedict flatly rules out resigning in the face of criticism over the sex abuse crisis.

"On the agenda will be our existing rules on financial fair play and whether our current rule book needs improvement in the face of the financial challenges being faced by several member clubs.

And the powers that be shrink in the face of the online "Mob Rules" pseudo-activism.

Rule became the face of and driving force for the Mary Rose Trust in the early stages of the project.

And how (as the D.C. Circuit ruled) can the President remain powerless in the face of this kind of obstruction?

In Stockholm, Nobel committee members scrambled before reaffirming the prize in the face of rules against posthumous awards.

Sealand was a quirk of history, a single man who flew in the face of rules he disagreed with.

The automatic generation of the rules ensures scalability of the system in the face of ever-increasing amounts of sequence data.

And we have the current rules because of the E.P.A.'s persistence in the face of adamant auto industry opposition.

The third Prairie Rule, however, I will uphold until death, in the face of common sense and sanity.