Sentence examples for faced with widespread from inspiring English sources

The transit agency, faced with widespread criticism about dirty cars, restored car cleaner jobs that had been eliminated in 1995.

Last year, he reluctantly agreed to form the post of prime minister when faced with widespread demands for political change.

But in an industry faced with widespread skills shortages triggered by the latest spurt of housebuilding, progress has not always been rapid.

Faced with widespread international condemnation, the US handed control of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison back to Iraqi authorities in 2005.

He is faced with widespread public anticipation that he will take some of the paternity leave that his reform-minded government has just made part of British law, and his modern-man reputation is on the line.

WASHINGTON — Faced with widespread complaints from the agricultural industry, federal regulators are backing away from two proposals that would have allowed institutional investors to expand their stake in the turbulent commodity futures markets.

Last month the local newspaper La Nuova Venezia reported that, faced with a widespread flouting of the regulations, city police had begun handing out the first fines for gondoliers breaking the rules on rissos.

Faced with the widespread (and correct) perception that this is a highly regressive tax proposal, Hassett and his colleagues on the Council are clearly trying to shift the terms of the debate.

Faced with such widespread insurrection, Cambridge school administrators chose to permit the event and leveled no punishment, on the condition that students did something constructive during the period in which the test was given.

"The young person in the south has three possibilities faced with this widespread illegality: one is to adapt to the system, the second is to run away, the third is to stay and to be a protagonist of change," he says.

Faced with the widespread destruction of Greater Poland after the Czech expedition, Casimir moved his court to Kraków, replacing the old Piast capitals of Poznań and Gniezno; Kraków functioned as the nation's capital for several centuries.