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

Two other big accounting firms, Ernst & Young, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, earlier shut down their tax shelter units in the face of similar criticism and promised internal changes.

While the move was presented as necessary to balance Sunni and Shiite ministers on the Iraqi Governing Council, many Iraqis suspected Mr. Badran was paying the price for the widespread desertion by Iraqi police and civil defense units in the face of the violence.

The deals are expected to make McGraw-Hill the world's largest educational publisher and to strengthen both Lexis-Nexis and Times Mirror's legal publishing unit in the face of increasingly tough competition.

Billions of dollars have been spent building up the Iraqi army, only to have key units collapse in the face of the ISIS invasion of Mosul.

That was the case in Mali, where a U.S.-trained officer led a coup against a democratic government and U.S.-supplied and -drilled army units crumbled in the face of an offensive by ethnic and Islamist insurgents.

During the Gulf War, these troops performed somewhat better than the regular army, though most units fled in the face of the allied onslaught.

Importantly, their attractiveness guarantees the units' functionality in the face of perturbations, which (among others) motivates their utility in humanoid robotics design [23], [24].

The carmaker is increasing profit and sales, as are competitors Bayerische Motoren Werke A.G. and DaimlerChrysler A.G.'s Mercedes-Benz unit, even in the face of economic slowdowns in their biggest markets, the United States and Germany.

To the north and west of Oosterbeek other units fell back in the face of strong German resistance and over the next few days a thumb shaped perimeter formed around the town, with the Rhine at its base.

In fiction, meanwhile, the platoon was beginning to emerge as the definitive unit of humanity in the face of battle.

And he continues to underwrite the preservation and construction of housing — 112,000 subsidized units since 2003 — even in the face of a fearsome downturn in tax revenues.