Sentence examples for fled in the face of from inspiring English sources

Antigovernment activists said Wednesday that Al Heffa's residents had fled in the face of relentless attacks by the Syrian military.

But they want the government in Baghdad to cede the disputed territories taken by them since the Iraqi army fled in the face of the IS onslaught.

He also describes a Zurich zookeeper who imports fleas to keep his chimpanzee happy, but complains they "fled in the face of Swiss hygiene".

So, when the Iraqi army fled in the face of the Sunni insurgent group, Islamic State (Isis) in June, the Iranian general was on unfamiliar ground.

But Christians with long experience in Syria have pointed out that Russia did nothing to save the 150,000-member Christian community in the city of Homs; most fled in the face of devastating government attacks.

Dexter's animating force, the insane killer he holds within and has christened his "Dark Passenger," has fled in the face of a far more potent and evil force that's orchestrating the mischief of other killers in Miami.

The gas chamber was then disabled as SS guards began to flee in the face of advancing allied troops.

Moreover, most members of the militia manning the first lines of defense at Bladensburg were from Baltimore and Baltimore County, and they were the first to flee in the face of the British advance.

THE spectacle of American-trained Iraqi Army troops dropping their weapons and fleeing in the face of an offensive by the radical Sunni ISIS militia evokes memories of the collapse of South Vietnam's American-trained military in 1975.

But the improvements have often produced little more than an assurance that the police, who still must be heavily backed by American firepower, will not flee in the face of an attack.

Investors are also fleeing in the face of extortion demands by guerrilla and paramilitary groups, and unemployment is at a record rate of one worker in five after a recession that shrank the economy by more than 5percentt last year.