Sentence examples for teeth of public from inspiring English sources

But if Mr Schröder and Ms Merkel aren't excited, it is also because both see a longer-term mission to advance reform in the teeth of public scepticism.

How can this happen in the teeth of public policy?

In the middle of a national security crisis, it took considerable courage for a young Julius Caesar, then still a relative newcomer to Roman politics, to fly into the teeth of public opinion and plead for mercy.

They are struggling to hang on to their businesses and salaries in the teeth of a public that would dearly like to see them don hair shirts, and a government that would like to turn banks into cash machines to keep home-owners and small businesses afloat.

I sympathize with the recent wave of public teeth-gnashing about the future of marginal notes.

This ends weeks of public teeth-gnashing from director Ridley Scott, who took the MPAA to task over some of the films that received PG-13 ratings this year.

On the other hand, there will be much weeping, gnashing of teeth and public soul-searching in Japan and the United Kingdom, which will win fewer than 20 medals each.

"People are sometimes surprised to see we have teeth," said Caroline Oyama, the manager of public relations for the New York Public Library, which serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.

Yet, in the teeth of the Government and of public opinion, M. Zola took up the cause of Dreyfus, and by his outspoken denunciations of the War Office authorities drove the Government to prosecute him.

Chances are, we all know someone who believes some version of a conspiracy theory, which is why psychologists have been trying to understand what makes someone jump from logically questioning the world to looking for signs of lizard teeth in public figures.

Don't pick food out of your teeth in public.