And yet there is something profoundly powerful about this stilled moment: the sense of calmness, peace and even spirituality that emanates from Evans, a silent, unafraid, black woman faced with the full force of overwhelmingly white militarised police.
Faced with the blunt force of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, Garcetti and his council colleagues are talking about reform.
But Corbyn himself may spend too much time unpicking what he sees as the misrepresentations of his positions to have much impact, faced with the combined forces of the Blairites and Conservatives gunning for him as internationally naive, irresponsible and out of touch.
Faced with the Sky Blue force, what can Sutton, midway in the Vauxhall Conference, expect from Saturday, other than £40,000 generated by a capacity crowd, sponsorship and the Beeb's attentions?
Maybe, faced with the choice of forcing his achy knee to bend one more time or losing his head swiftly and cleanly, he figures, "Enough already".
What is desperately needed here and now is another Franklin D. Roosevelt, a president who, when faced with the most reactionary forces of his day, famously proclaimed "I welcome their hatred".
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters, faced with the buildup of American forces, to flee strongholds they have held for years, NATO commanders, local Afghan officials and residents of the region said.
Once Nixon became president and was faced with the daunting task of forcing the North Vietnamese to negotiate — even as U.S. forces withdrew from Vietnam and U.S. antiwar sentiment peaked — he began trying to "scare the hell out of everybody" to gain leverage against Hanoi.
These refugees are, therefore, faced with the alternatives of being forced back into territory whose Government they fear or of being without a resting-place of any kind.
Now, whether it wants to or not, Turkey is faced with the awkward prospect of being forced to accept stringent fiscal conditions to obtain I.M.F. money to replace the disappearing private capital just as its economy is caught in the global slowdown.
