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121. Optimism and energy, especially in the face of adversity, are defining characteristics of our clan.

122. However, progress in treating cancer has not been great enough to lower the death rate in the face of increased incidence.

123. The President has been accused of being spineless in the face of naked aggression.

124. For conservatives it represented the vanity of social engineering and the breakdown of the liberal state in the face of impossible demands.

125. In the face of severe local competition, matters went from bad to worse.

126. My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work.

127. His business declined through the 1850s in the face of increasing competition,[http://sentencedict.com/in the face of.html] though his scientific interests continued undiminished.

128. Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Nelson Mandela 

129. They are impotent in the face of a centralised, powerful state.

130. The disclosure of Labour's latest spoiling tactic highlighted renewed confidence at Millbank in the face of dire Tory poll results.

131. None the less the young couple eventually married, which in the face of so much Glover resistance undoubtedly took some strength and resolve.

132. Yet in the face of this particular story such sentiments can seem like pious claptrap.

133. All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical jargon.

134. Hopes of a compromise peace stood no chance in the face of Franco's determination to pursue the Republic's unconditional surrender.

135. The organisers have been granted a licence in the face of strong local objections.

136. He's trying everything, in the face of having to ask Yeb a big favour.

137. In the face of such damning evidence Jakobs had little defence against the charge of being a spy.

138. Yet the defence of the welfare state in the face of the new immigration has revealed an undercurrent of racism.

139. In the face of all the forces of modern salesmanship, it still rules, almost undefiled, in the textbooks.

140. However desirable, that might fly in the face of everything the 1984 decree was about.

141. In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. Barack Obama 

142. And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition, she never lost her composure.

143. His own career is an exemplar of survival in the face of absurdity as well as adversity.

144. This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.

145. In the face of the current crisis in contract doctrine, however, recent studies have partially overcome this disciplinary isolation.

146. I shall recommend ways of keeping cool in the face of severe provocation.

147. They have shown a total lack of interest in joint action in the face of rising fuel prices.

148. I had not imagined him as some one who would cower in the face of death.

149. Eight industrial proposals on the November ballot went down hard in the face of overwhelming voter disapproval.

150. The chain has battened down the hatches in the face of the storms.