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

Hesse's conservative government introduced them but retreated in the face of protests.

The government has imposed a general sales tax on retail trade in the face of protests.

Since then the project hung fire in the face of protests by environmentalists and social activists.

He also predicted that the management wouldn't have the nerve to close it in the face of protests.

In the face of protests, Mr. Brown was forced to change the rules to permit public hearings, leading some analysts to conclude that, tactically, he had erred.

In the face of protests from alumni and other supporters, however, both universities announced measures that raised hopes that the programs would be continued in some form.

Several of the Japanese cinemas that were bold enough to show the film ended up cancelling screenings in the face of protests.

Proponents of this argument have already argued that such turnout--in the face of protests and boycott threats--reflects the legitimacy of the elections and the fact that the vast majority of Hondurans want to move on from the Zelaya-Micheletti debacle.

This is a neon-bright sign of corporate retrenchment in the face of protest, bad press and flashes of moral rectitude.

In the south, however, Giolitti's government was less accommodating and often resorted to old-style repression in the face of protest, as in 1903 and 1904.

The illusion I have in mind is the belief that one can engage in blatantly political activity and then, in the face of protest, insist that politics has nothing to do with art.