Sentence examples for face of community from inspiring English sources
The club plan fizzled in the face of community opposition.
The plan to privatize the court and resurface it was abandoned in the face of community opposition.
A plan to sell a Roman Catholic convent on Staten Island to a Muslim group for use as a mosque is faltering in the face of community opposition.
About six years ago, the railroad considered closing down the West Hempstead branch, Mr. Bykofsky said, but reconsidered in the face of community protests.
Earlier development plans have been scuttled in the face of community outcry so violent that Village Trustees were forced to throw up their hands.
At one point, Cirque du Soleil was considering a home there, though that idea sank in the face of community opposition, as did a plan to put in a big-box retailer and an aquarium.
JESSICA MAY, FORT WORTH It is understandable that you feel powerless in the face of community-wide sentiment — gold rush!
"It's a slap in the face of communities that desperately need open space," said Geoffrey Croft, president of NYC Park Advocates, a watchdog group.
Some say it is insecurity, the changing face of communities, which has been a recruiter for so much of the recent anti-establishment politics and that the call to take back control of countries and borders reflects a broader unease.
Immigration and birth rates, among other contributing factors, are altering the face of communities.
But when the Atlantic Yards development was downsized in the face of strong community opposition and a struggling economy, Gehry was let go.
