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

If the licence commission rules against them, however and the verdict is upheld in the face of any legal challenge then they will be out in the cold.

Jack Straw had it right: the essential freedoms of the state must be steadily upheld in the face of terrorist threat.

During a summer marked by what cops said was an uptick in gang shootings, city lawmakers went so far as to pass a "gun violence tax," which was upheld in the face of legal challenge from gun rights groups in December.

They have made promises to themselves, their employees, their customers and their investors which they failed to uphold in the face of business opportunities and pressure from the Chinese government.

Despite his limited vision, he is a noble character, precariously striving to uphold propriety in the face of a rude world.

It's a great movie about the power of the individual to uphold justice in the face of prejudice, expediency, and general carelessness.

Although the Carlists were defeated, thereafter they upheld their cause in the face of the constitutional regime of Isabella and unsuccessful attempts to effect a dynastic reconciliation through a marriage between Isabella II and Don Carlos's heir, Don Carlos, conde de Montemolín.

All of these actions were upheld in court in the face of industry challenges to EPA's scientific findings.

However, when he again appealed against his conviction, Moore's version of events that Boycott had attacked her by punching her in the face, causing bruising, was upheld, in the light of photographs of her injuries shown to the court and the testimony of a doctor that the injuries could not have been caused in the way described by Boycott.

Nonetheless, the very fact that this fragile majority -- with the crucial fifth vote provided by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- managed to carve out one disputed application of the law and uphold it in the face of Tennessee's claim of constitutional immunity was a development with potentially broad implications.

The third Prairie Rule, however, I will uphold until death, in the face of common sense and sanity.