He looked expectantly at the captain, but Picard waved his hands in the face of overwhelming numbers.

But the skirmishing continued through the night, and at dawn the snipers fell back in the face of ever-growing numbers.

In the face of numbers like this, powerful lobbying groups continue to push for an end to commercial fishing, to make striped bass a game fish.

He had simply retreated in the face of massed numbers.

Much good meat is wasted in the face of such excessive numbers.

It took courage to make demands in the face of vastly superior numbers.

Police were called but were powerless in the face of large numbers of supporters.

I retreated in the face of superior numbers.

They always fall back in the face of superior numbers.

And we've done it in the face of extraordinary numbers of applications.