Sentence examples for conditions in the face of from inspiring English sources

Allowing that he was not the first to document such conditions in the face of official indifference and inaction, Mr. Haar told The New York Times, "If you don't have a court order, you can kiss this report goodbye".

On Wednesday, Republican leaders abruptly shelved one of the centerpieces of Mr. Cantor's "Making Life Work" agenda — a bill to extend insurance coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions — in the face of a conservative revolt.

The economic and environmental case for high taxes on fuel is sound, but when tax accounts for 72% of the price of anything, it is not surprising that people grumble.Whatever the merits of high taxes on fuel in ordinary circumstances, there is no respectable case for cutting them under present conditions, in the face of bully-boy tactics, actual or threatened, by pickets outside refineries.

Meanwhile, the appropriateness of conventional urban planning approaches to the improvement of urban environmental conditions in the face of deteriorating urban environment have often been questioned.

Pre-programming complex robotic systems to operate in unstructured environments is extremely difficult because of the programmer's inability to predict future operating conditions in the face of unforeseen environmental conditions, mechanical wear of parts, etc.

Electricity production using solar thermal energy is one of the main research areas at present in the field of renewable energies, these systems being characterised by the need of reliable control systems aimed at maintaining desired operating conditions in the face of changes in solar radiation, which is the main source of energy.

Delta's chief executive, Gerald A. Grinstein, warned the pilots to be prepared to give even more because of Delta's worsening financial condition in the face of high fuel prices and discount-fare competition.

Ecological assessments facilitate understanding of a landscape's past, present, and future condition in the face of natural and/or anthropogenic threats (Jensen and Bourgeron 2001).

They are African women -- women who can function under the harshest conditions, who in the face of murder and rape continually stand up to fight.

For seven months he led the 74th Fighter Squadron on far-ranging independent missions, operating from advance airfields under crude conditions and in the face of Operation Ichi-Go; a successful Japanese pincer movement.

Our evaluation of these schemes indicated that under many conditions, especially in the face of scarce data and increasing complexity of the underlying system, our novel maximum difference approach outperforms the maximum entropy scheme.