Sentence examples for floor in the face from inspiring English sources

Armed with detailed legislative language and a report on the bill's costs from the Congressional Budget Office, Democratic leaders and White House officials kicked off a new round of arm-twisting to line up the votes they will need to pass the legislation when it comes to the House floor in the face of intense Republican opposition on Sunday.

On these occasions I've been intimidated, pushed to the floor, hit in the face, kicked, sworn at.

In fact, the battle in the Senate over judicial nominees, in which the president kept insisting on floor votes in the face of Democratic filibusters, has probably solidified his support on the right.Mr Bush can also claim he has been able to get more done in Congress than might have been expected.

Boehner ultimately did not put the plan to a House floor vote in the face of opposition from Republican conservatives and a unified Democratic caucus.

There I was, sitting on a hotel room floor in the dark, facing my mortality head-on.

She would throw herself down, beat the floor, grow purple in the face, scream bloody murder.

The attackers spit on her, threw her on the floor, kicked her in the face and back, punched her in the nose, ripped her earrings out of her earlobes, dragged her by her hair across the restaurant and only stopped when she began to have an epileptic seizure and an older woman in a white track suit intervened.

The second row Gordon Brown, finding himself on the floor, was butted in the face and there were so many incidents off the ball that Gareth Edwards asked the Province captain, Hannes Marais, to get his players to cut out the cheap shots.

The master suite has a heated Bisazza marble floor in the bath, which faces north toward the park, and his-and-her closets.

We poke fun; we're the banana peel on the floor, not the slap in the face.

One recalls being knelt on so that her arms were pinned to the floor and punched repeatedly in the face.