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

"We are cutting that cancer out of our community," Mayor McKelvey maintains, in the face of skeptical reformers who point to a continuing investigation in which more than 70 officials and local mob figures have been prosecuted.

When, for example, they confront the smoker, who maintains, in the face of all evidence, that their habit will do them no harm because they know an old lady who reached 99 while getting through 30 a day; or the patient demanding antibiotics that cannot conceivably do anything at all for their viral infection?

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.

That the civil liberties we at least nominally enjoyed through a civil war and two world wars can't be maintained in the face of a desperate band of mere terrorists?

Evaluating how this optimism is maintained in the face of information that challenges it, they found that desirable information was encoded in a different part of the brain than undesirable information.

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.

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.