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

"And they will not leave in the face of this attack.

For Ruth Shaw, 77, a 37-year resident of St. Clair Place who raised six children there and refused to leave in the face of declining conditions even when her children begged her, the neighborhood's revival is the result of Near Eastside tenacity.

"Our goal is to create an environment for all of the individuals to leave in the face of a storm rather than stay," said Terry Ebbert, the homeland security adviser for Orleans Parish, speaking at a news conference with federal officials regarding preparations for the 2006 season, which begins June 1.

But Harman said four decades of campaigning for equality had proven to her that "EU muscle" had been the key to forcing through a series of reforms, including on equal pay, maternity rights and paternity leave, in the face of constant opposition in Britain.

Both executives left in the face of losses and billions of dollars in write-downs.

Didn't anybody learn anything from the cheerleading that greased the skids of the Bush 43 Gulf War?  Isn't there any spine left in the face of Dick and his Mini-Me?

Two years ago, I pleaded with Xulhaz to leave Bangladesh in the face of growing fanaticism.

The eponymous heroine is a bourgeois doctor's wife packing frantically to leave Berlin in the face of Nazi persecution.

Mrs. Maslon was so enamored of the house (one of only three Neutras in the modernist mecca in and around Palm Springs) and her famous art collection that she stubbornly refused to leave even in the face of failing health.

He asked why would any multinational corporation forced to leave China, in the face of the 45% tariff, return to the US when they could go anywhere else in the world, Vietnam to begin with, and export from there.

The Coast Guard released its final report on the accident that killed five people, which it said followed an unsafe decision to leave dock in the face of an approaching storm.