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

True, an improvement of 0.3% is only just discernible but it has happened in the face of strong deflationary winds.

But it happened in the face of a relentless campaign by the G.O.P. to do everything possible to prevent the law from taking effect, or from working if it did.

In 1949, Gray founded the Women's Track Racing Association (WTRA), later renamed the Women's Cycle Racing Association (WCRA); the fight to get women's events included in the world championships lasted 12 years, and it happened in the face of opposition from most of the small clique of countries that ruled what was then a parochial, largely European sport.

These disasters have happened in the face of diminishing resources for aid relief, humanitarian operations, and reconstruction.

But how, politically, is that supposed to happen in the face of the current high rates of unemployment and without an adequate system of welfare support?

Suppose what would happen, in the face of a close national election, if we had to have a recount in every little hamlet".

Dr. Wampler says it wouldn't take a great deal of investment to continue to improve the state of the art in grammar checking, but he concludes that will not happen in the face of the dominance of Microsoft Word.

More than ever, he says, Greece needs large-scale foreign investment to kickstart growth – investment that is unlikely to happen in the face of government hostility to investors, both domestic and foreign.

The current plan calls for Greece to move into large primary surplus — that is, surplus not counting interest payments on the debt: That's a huge swing — and it's supposed to happen in the face of a deeply depressed economy.

Of course, such a realisation cannot happen in the face of existing social structures in which women have to contend with the reality of male authority and Muslims with the absence of civil and political liberties in Muslim-majority states and anti-Islamic sentiment and racism in western societies.

This is happening in the face of a large body of evidence indicating that the quantitative measures themselves obtained by many of these techniques could serve as early indicators of the presence of disease or indeed as biomarkers of response to treatment [13, 14, 15, 16].