Earlier that morning he had faced waves of group interviews with as much dignity as could be expected.
While districts across the country have faced waves of closures, those in Chicago hit doubly close to home for the Obama administration; in addition to the Emanuel connection, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan formerly served as CEO of the district.
South Africa has faced a wave of debilitating strikes.Emerging economies have a right to feel aggrieved.
Since the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs has faced a wave of criticism from politicians, regulators, protesters and writers.
The commission has faced a wave of criticism for failing to detect the huge Ponzi scheme that Bernard L. Madoff is said to have run.
The church has faced a wave of accusations in recent months that it covered up sexual abuse of children by priests and failed to take action — criminal or ecclesiastical — to punish pedophile priests and remove them from working with children.
But his "revolutionary" government has faced a wave of criticism recently -- from the Roman Catholic Church, the media, unions, the United States and political parties -- for its authoritarian style and animosity toward the private sector.
Mr. Obama has faced a wave of complaints from his followers in recent weeks that he is tacking hard toward the political center and moving away from his liberal base now that he is in a general election campaign.
For almost 10 years, the exchange, which controls 80percentt of trading in its listed stocks, has faced a wave of electronic competitors called electronic communication networks, or E.C.N.'s.
