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

These were days of ascendency for Bury, and he went to Glyndebourne, initially in the face of a lingering, polite anxiety about his "lack of taste".

That MI6 was silent initially in the face of dubious claims by a prime minister discredited on matters of intelligence, with waning powers of patronage and soon to depart the stage is a testament to the enduring power of the executive.

Southwest Airlines, initially combative in the face of a $10.2 million fine from the Federal Aviation Administration for inspection lapses, took a more conciliatory tone on Tuesday.

Long-mooted plans for a new training complex at Warren Farm, initially rejected in the face of protests from residents and then resubmitted in January this year, will not bear fruit for at least two years.

Both initially retreated in the face of the Islamist onslaught.

The Kurdish forces initially retreated in the face of the Islamic State's offensive, but are now holding and retaking ground.

After initially falling in the face of intensified control efforts, reported rates of sexually transmitted chlamydia in many developed countries are rising.

The first of these profiles has been observed in Canada, Finland, Norway, and Sweden where, after initially falling in the face of intensified control efforts, reported rates of chlamydia infections have rebounded [ 3, 4].

Drug monotherapy may prove effective initially, but in the face of progressively declining islet B-cell function, the hallmark of diabetes [ 2, 3], half the population requires combination therapy within 3 years of diagnosis [ 4].

Initially, Hopkins was defiant in the face of those who she had offended, and even posted a link to the petition herself, adding: "Please fell (sic) free to sign whatever it is that angry people are all aboard the Outrage Bus about today".

Distribution of damage in the temporal lobe was crucial for predicting the initially 'beneficial' effects of stimulus repetition: cases with Wernicke's aphasia showed initial improvement with repetition of words and pictures, while in semantic aphasia, semantic access was initially good but declined in the face of competition from previous targets.