In one engagement, enemy fire shattered the canopy of his jet, cutting his face, and yet he continued to attack, the records show.
"Nicola... a student at Leicester University, was in a nightclub in Wrexham when someone threw a bottle across the room and it smashed, cutting her face open, " Mr Lucas explained.
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First he was hit on the left wrist before the very next ball smashed him on the chin, with the wire grille of his helmet cutting into his face.
The conflict highlights the difficulties the Obama administration and Congress face when cutting funding in politically sensitive areas.
True to form, when he finally begins the shave, the blade slides across the surface of my face, cutting the whiskers as if they were gently heated butter.
In mid-March, researchers from several government agencies used a tranquilizer to sedate one of the entangled whales, named Bridle because the whale had rope tangled around its face and cutting through its head.
With the cutting finished, my face is wrapped in another hot towel before a face cream is massaged into my cheeks and a further hot towel is applied, followed by some aftershave balm.
Gyarmati recalls a tough, but generally disciplined match which turned sour in the closing moments when Soviet player Valentin Prokopov elbowed Hungary's star Ervin Zador in the face, cutting him below the eye.
In addition to continued consolidation and cost-cutting, the airlines face new challenges to profitability in the second quarter, including government agencies and the businesses that work with them spending less on travel, due to federal budget sequestration.
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He promised to accelerate many of those actions while cutting costs further in the face of higher gas prices and material costs.
An online lender to small businesses, the Manhattan outfit learned in a tense conference call that the hedge fund providing all of its capital was cutting it off in the face of investor redemptions.
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For the first 47 minutes of his speech the president did not touch on any conservative themes until an about face with talk of cutting spending and cutting deficits.
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There's standing on principle, Swayne says, and then there's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It was in his own interest, cutting your nose off to spite your face is not always the best solution.
The deputy first minister accused the UK government of being in danger of "cutting off their nose to spite their face".
For investors, bailing on dividend stocks for fear of higher taxes is a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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However, it is cutting off your nose to spite your face, because refusing to raise the debt ceiling would be consigning the economy potentially to another recession, certainly to reducing growth and job creation -- to the kinds of eventualities that would precisely -- would do the most damage to the cause of creating jobs and growing the economy.
In addition, Mr. Branson and his team also face challenges in predictably producing the cutting-edge spacecraft and operating a spaceport in New Mexico.
While in community college, a driver who accused him of cutting him off pointed a gun in his face, threatened to shoot him, and then drove away.
Whatever the merits of high taxes on fuel in ordinary circumstances, there is no respectable case for cutting them under present conditions, in the face of bully-boy tactics, actual or threatened, by pickets outside refineries.
Apple is perhaps the most egregious, jealously guarding its own perimeter in the most arbitrary and capricious way, and even, in the case of pulling Google maps off the iPhone, going to the extent of cutting off its own nose to spite its face.
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Even with the best intentions, commercial exchanges with regulatory powers face the temptation to boost profits by cutting corners.
In the face of disappointing sales, Chevrolet is cutting prices across the board, even though this version of Malibu only went on sale early last year.
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Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy noted at the time, (1) such action represented a deplorable capitulation to foreign pressure in the face of a clear national interest in cutting off the economic life-support to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Cost-cutting alone is not a path to survival in the face of continued declines in print revenue and fierce competition in the digital world.
The company continues to face margin pressure even with significant cost-cutting measures.
Yet they face tough competition and must rely on cost cutting and a steady stream of new models to maintain profit margins that are already low.
If we look at corporate performance in the early part of 2009, when we were going through a massive rationalization of corporate expense statements, companies were cutting costs by 20% or 25% in the face of serious sales declines.
Cutting back staff while staring a shrinking market cap in the face may be painful, but it's not a deathblow.
As state and local government are forced to face their bad administration and excessive spending, cost-cutting is leaving more and more state employees in the streets.
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