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

Between 1986 and 1992 she also edited Y Faner ("The flag"), the venerable weekly newspaper whose radical traditions she tried to maintain in the face of a dwindling readership, but it folded soon afterwards.

Mr. Beattie said Fisker, like Lamborghini, had a modest marketing budget and depended on events like the Luxury Review to sell the desirability of its product — a critical message to maintain in the face of events beyond its immediate control.

But his writing on identity draws a sharp, value-loaded distinction between ethnic and civic nationalism, claiming only the latter is compatible with liberal democracy (a position that becomes harder to maintain in the face of xenophobia perpetuated in the name of "civic" nationalism – rising French Islamophobia and Turkish exclusivism spring to mind).

The absence of such signage has been a blessing in recent months, as the town's brokers and homeowners have sought to maintain, in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary, that they are immune, more or less, to the ravages of the credit crisis.

But they are struggling to explain why.A few, most notably Newt Gingrich and two Republican candidates for governor of New York, still maintain, in the face of all sound legal advice, that the backers of the Cordoba Islamic Center have no right to build it, in spite of the constitution's protection of religious freedom and private property.

Environmental groups are warning that priority needs to be given to old forests and the biodiversity they maintain in the face of climate change and growing demand for resources.

Its task is to show that tolerance can be maintained in the face of bloodshed.

The Taliban have long maintained – in the face of increasing scepticism – that their leader is still alive.

But Cowen, Lenihan and other ministers maintained, in the face of the obvious facts, that no such negotiation was going on.

While the story of each individual who survived the Mao years is uniquely fascinating, the passion for the book, stubbornly maintained in the face of overwhelming pressure, is typical of a whole generation of Chinese intellectuals.

And Chappell maintained, in the face of obvious scepticism among MPs on the business select committee, that there were innocent explanations for the cash transfers whizzing in and out of BHS and his Retail Acquisitions company.