When their morale spikes upward, their attacks tend to be painfully and bloodily frontal — little more than racing columns down the highway, through a gantlet of the Qaddafi forces' rocket and mortar fire, face forward into the loyalists' machine guns.
That they managed to keep up was testament to the baptism of fire faced by early glam-rock adherents, a trial that both inspired lasting devotion and sowed the seeds of autodidactic discovery.
UCLA student found dead in apartment fire faced party drug charges.
The premiere of "Chicago Fire" faced stiff competition, facing off against the series premiere of "Nashville" and a new "CSI".
Last year, L.A. County fire faced as much as $50 million in cuts from its budget, but it protected firefighting services -- meaning other services, vital in their own way, had to be whacked.
In the case of our leaders within the civil rights community, they often endure trial by fire, face striking parallels between right and wrong, and confront the need to make decisions about equality, fairness, and justice from an early age.
If we wildly danced around fires facing our deepest insecurities, fears and hungers, knowing that nature would assure us exactly the courage, inspiration and hopes that feed us most, would we still find ourselves in shadow?
There was a tense standoff on Galaa Street, as nervous officers, surrounded by small fires, faced an army of angry young men who hurled pieces of broken concrete.
Those who are not fired faced a range of lesser penalties, from suspensions to the loss of vacation time or a letter of reprimand.
