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

South passed after the one-spade opening bid by Peter Chen, East, but emerged with a three-diamond bid at his second turn in the face of unfavorable vulnerability.

Europe's monetary policy, meanwhile is unlikely to take a sudden dovish turn in the face of the subprime disaster.

But he was also another turn in the face of a real war — the soldier who five years ago disappeared from his unit and now faces the embrace of his parents and the derision of fellow warriors who regard him as a deserter.

Things reached a nadir at the end of last year when the ruling coalition announced it would allow foreign supermarkets into the country, only to do a U-turn in the face of protests from the opposition and its own coalition partners.

Christopher Duggan, professor of Italian history at the University of Reading, said: "Berlusconi's humiliating U-turn, in the face of the impending defection of some two dozen of his party's senators, is an enormous boost to the prime minister, Enrico Letta, and to his government.

Insiders said it was essential that Tsipras at least retained control of the 110 MPs who last week voted in favour of tax rises and pension cuts – measures spurned by the young prime minister until his spectacular U-turn in the face of possible eurozone ejection.

A person guided by fear and hope, the main emotions in a life devoted to the pursuit of temporal advantages, turns, in the face of the vagaries of fortune, to behaviors calculated to secure the goods he desires.

He did not, as some might have expected, turn truculent in the face of disappointment.

For the new opposition party, the willingness of voters to turn out in the face of the intimidation that marked much of the campaign was a measure of the discontent that has gripped the country.

"He refused to turn aside in the face of injustice and inhumanity even from those with the power and responsibility to provide protection, and he is now in mortal danger".

Releasing a never-ending stream of new levels and expansions is, of course, a great way to stay on the radar, but even that is likely to turn stale in the face of the equally never-ending influx of new content.