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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

And so it was that Mr. Formanchuk became a leader of a budding movement to uphold motorists' rights in the face of police corruption, making him a not unfamiliar face when he went to a police station here two weeks ago to register his car.

At least as typified by Prometheus, human beings can rejoice in their own sufferings, and by this defiance uphold their individuality in the face of Fate.

The president instead called on bankers to uphold national stability in the face of terrorism.