Sentence examples for face of trends from inspiring English sources

And both politics and writing, in different ways, exist in part to assert human agency in the face of trends that seem inexorable and impersonal — to hold up ideals even when fewer people are living up to them, to try to shape and redirect trends rather than taking them as a given, to mitigate the excesses of revolutions and try to preserve the best of the old even when the new comes rushing in.

A sound emerged that flew in the face of trends and conventional pleasure, a sound from the outskirts of acceptability: happy hardcore.

Again, this finding flies in the face of historical trends.

In the face of these trends, signs of advertiser desperation abound.

In the face of alarming trends in childhood obesity and health, Gov.

"Tackling in-work poverty needs sustained effort in the face of economic trends towards inequality," said Nick Burkitt, of the Low Pay Unit.

But many are sceptical, noting that previous mosquito destruction campaigns had only a short-lived effect in the face of bigger trends.

"The Edifice Complex pervading higher education flies in the face of other trends that call for caution in capital spending," Dr. Vedder said in an e-mail.

In the face of these trends, Republicans have managed to hang on, until this week, to half the region's Senate seats, mostly with against-the-grain moderates like Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

It is not that the Muslim world was totally without attempts at reform and renewal in the face of global trends, or that there was no appreciation that its own earlier superiority had vanished.

A statement from Amnesty said China's expanded use of lethal injections "flies in the face" of international trends away from capital punishment which this year have seen even dictatorial Uzbekistan abandon the death penalty.