Sentence examples for elsewhere in the face from inspiring English sources

Yet in an emotional homage on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry held up Ms. Smedinghoff's work as an example of the importance of the continued American effort in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the face of "cowardice" and "nihilism".

The plans are going ahead in Russia and elsewhere in the face of criticism that a diffuse nuclear infrastructure — the idea that many midsize cities, for example, could have their own small reactor — is inherently risky.

The Shabaab were driven out of Mogadishu late last year and are struggling to hold on to territory elsewhere in the face of attacks by Kenyan, Ethiopian and African Union forces trying to prevent Islamist insurgencies from spreading out from Somalia.

For example, the Cascades frog has been lost from half its range in California and is declining elsewhere in the face of habitat destruction and introduced trout, and in Arkansas, scientists warn that extinction of the Illinois chorus frog may be imminent.

This mission has only been accelerated by China's growth over the last generation, as Tokyo seeks to retain and expand a leadership role in the region and elsewhere in the face of a gigantic neighbor with whom it has all kinds of problems and historic animosities.

It was a dramatic setting for her message, repeated for months in Muslim countries and elsewhere, often in the face of considerable skepticism: it is possible for Iraq and other societies to throw off their legacies of violence and oppression to become viable democracies.

And it has done all this while striving to adhere to a strict code of military conduct that has few rivals in the democratic world, much less elsewhere — and in the face of an enemy prepared to send children to the front lines and seek cover in mosques, schools, and hospitals.

Police forces elsewhere in the country faced a similar problem.

Photo: Drivers in Nags Head, N.C., like those elsewhere in the Carolinas and Virginia, faced floods and high winds yesterday.

Exurban New England, as elsewhere in the US, faces low-density sprawl and loss of rural character.

Of course, as elsewhere in the world, unions face serious problems in Britain.