in the teeth of in a sentence

Examples

1. Hong Kong is also opening the airport in the teeth of an economic downturn that has battered the tourism industry.
2. "It was fortunate the contribution cap lifted when it did, in the teeth of his ( Villaraigosa's ) momentum ."
3. He lost Tuesday, in the teeth of a pennant race, and afterward he seemed to chalk it up to fate.
4. Once again, however, she finds herself in the teeth of new political storm, this time over her handling of child-pornography cases.
5. When Chuan returned to power in November 1997 in the teeth of a Thailand's financial crisis, Supachai came back with him.
6. Sometimes it seemed that to be alive at all was to have been born in the teeth of such a gale.
7. But without Giuliani's bloody-minded leadership in the teeth of frequently intense opposition, the change would have been nowhere near as dramatic.
8. Indeed, US Airways was forced last week to backtrack on some new revenue-generating policies in the teeth of a consumer backlash.
9. Tripflares were neutralized by wrapping their triggers with cloth or strips of bamboo carried in the teeth of the vanguard fighters.
10. By 1990, unable to raise the necessary capital in the teeth of a looming national recession, the investors sold out to Transcontinental.