In the face of stiff opposition, Germany embraced the concept.
But even in the face of stiff Japanese competition, Martin turned the company around.
The airline was forced to redesign its business model in the face of stiff competition.
But in the face of stiff public opposition, it has to propose some solution.
CNN is trying to rejuvenate its ratings in the face of stiff competition from Fox News.
In the face of stiff resistance from ITT, Hilton raised its bid in August to $70 per share.
In 1951 he was awarded his doctorate and, in the face of stiff competition, obtained an ICI postdoctoral fellowship.
More than 100 people remain in Guantánamo, which Obama wishes to close in the face of stiff opposition.
Bazhenov et al. used 4th and 6th order Runge-Kutta integration methods, which are not robust in the face of stiff equations.
The need for such rules has also long been debated, but the central government has delayed taking action in the face of stiff resistance from local governments.
In 2005 CNOOC abandoned a similar-sized bid to buy Unocal in America in the face of stiff resistance from Congress.
