Sentence examples for far in the face from inspiring English sources
Camp and flair get you only so far in the face of death or a paying audience.
"We've been amazingly resilient thus far in the face of all these headwinds," said Ellen Zentner, the senior United States economist for Nomura Securities International, referring to global obstacles like the slowdown in China and domestic ones like the looming expiration of tax breaks.
It achieves the verification rate of 98.86% on the all vs. all experiment at 0.1% false acceptance rate (FAR) in the Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) and 95.03% verification rate on nearly frontal faces with expression changes and occlusions in the Bosphorus database.
Intel is not having that great of year thus far in the face of a slew of information about security flaws in it hardware coming out — and you can add another new report from The Wall Street Journal today, which suggests that Intel didn't immediately notify the U.S. government of the issues, to that list.
But ingenuity can only go so far in the face of crippling poverty.
What enabled them to make it this far in the face of all they have dealt with may help them get through these difficult times.
Some former allies have come to believe that the organization has gone too far with pie-in-the-face stunts and a newspaper ad that equates humans eating meat with cannibalism.
Ally filed for an initial public offering in March 2011, but it has so far languished in the face of a weak market and concerns over Ally itself.
In October 2011, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics applauded his leadership in a news release that also argued the actions the N.C.A.A. had taken under Emmert did not go far enough in the face of conference realignment and "other accelerating trends".
This year export growth, which looked strong at first, has slowed to less than 4% for the year so far, buckling in the face of collapsed demand from the Asian region.
Last year, a different antismoking bill that would have banned smoking in restaurants made it this far, but in the face of a heavy lobbying campaign by the restaurant, tobacco and liquor industries, Senate Republicans never put it to a vote.
