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

The minimum wage, introduced in the face of protests from business leaders and the Tories, has gone some way to improving wages on the breadline.

He also appeared to suggest that university tuition fees – introduced in the face of Labour backbench opposition in 2005 – had been a block to students aspiring to go to university.

Norman Baker has launched a fresh attack on Theresa May, saying he resigned as a Home Office minister after facing a "constant battle" to introduce policies in the face of a Tory "lurch to the right" in pursuit of Ukip voters.

The changes on Tuesday, as part of a mini-reshuffle after Jenny Willott resigned as a whip, came after Baker intensified his attack on the home secretary by saying he had struggled to introduce policies in the face of a Tory "lurch to the right" in pursuit of Ukip voters.

"The prime minister may think he can outmanoeuvre or override the BMA in the same way that Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan did when the 1945 Labour government introduced the National Health Service in the face of opposition of the BMA.

Hers were highly cerebral artists, often introduced to Leeds in the face of opposition from a conservative local audience and sceptical politicians, and in whose work, often using non-traditional media, the image assumed unfamiliar, teasing and even jarring form.

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

The molecular test for KRAS mutations has been introduced in the routine clinical practice of the oncologists facing mCRC (Allegra et al, 2009).

David Cameron recently announced that the government would be shelving plans to introduce plain cigarette packaging, in the face of strong lobbying by the tobacco industry.

Nokia is introducing new phone models in the face of competition from Motorola Inc., the biggest mobile phone company, and from new entrants into the market like Lucent Technologies Inc.

The Bush administration has sought to introduce such licenses nationally in the face of stiff opposition from many states, and Mr. Spitzer's announcement that New York would sign on had been a major coup for federal homeland security officials.