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

As WoW lumbers into its 10th year, that number has been declining for some time, in the face of competition from free-to-play games and fresh-faced rivals.

"Recalculating," the G.P.S. informed me for the twentieth time, in the face of my disobedience.

But it's quite difficult to lie all the time in the face of constant surveillance.

Yet the speaker curbs his own id this time, in the face of great temptation.

Even at the time, in the face of bitter controversy and mass protests, it was seen as a pivotal event.

At the same time, in the face of financial realities, universities are clamping down on tenure-track spots in all fields.

In economically trying times — in the face of alarming rates of youth unemployment — are philosophy degrees a luxury that some students simply cannot afford?

In some countries Christian minorities have had to struggle for their existence and recognition, at times in the face of persecution.

Sony's television operation may be facing hard times in the face of South Korean competition, but the company's reputation for making perhaps the best-looking (if expensive) displays remains intact, as it should.

In Montana the 92,000-acre (38,000 hectares) Bundy Railroad fire forced firefighters to retreat three times in the face of high winds that fanned burning stands of dried grass, sagebrush and ponderosa pines.

Both have had to adapt to survive: Sooty has reinvented himself many times in the face of sex and drugs scandals, and big money deals; while the NHS has been through countless reorganisations and crises.