Sentence examples for has faced attacks from inspiring English sources

SINCE Nigeria passed a law criminalising homosexuality in January, Gordon Austin has faced attacks, abuse, arrests and extortion in the south-western city of Ibadan.

California has faced attacks by conservative leaders for much of this presidential election year, as they presented the state as a model of Democratic policies gone awry.

Mr. Gibbs's team has faced attacks on its performance — even, this week, for sending Mr. Obama into a school to exhort children to study harder.

In Delaware, for instance, Representative Mike Castle, a moderate Republican who is running for Senate, has faced attacks from his primary opponent over his support for embryonic stem cell research.

At the same time, Mr. Obasanjo has faced attacks at home, even from members of his own party, over his government's inability to end economic stagnation and create jobs for the millions of unemployed.

She has faced attacks from both sides, she says: from white folk who saw a woman in a headscarf and suspected she was a terrorist sympathiser and from traditional Muslim men who believed that a woman's place was in the home.

Since arriving in November, the company here has faced attack — from mortars, roadside bombs or rifles — once every two or three days.

Other companies have faced attacks by mobs, whipped up, many believe, by local power brokers.

Journalists who ignored the calls to ignore the party have faced attacks from the other end of the political spectrum.

Security experts said it was possible that companies other than Lockheed had faced attacks, whether they realized it or not.

Reuters reported Monday that Kenyans who fled said they had faced attacks and hostility from Libyan citizens and officials who branded them as mercenaries supporting Colonel Qaddafi.