set one’s face against something

zarputile odmítat co, postavit si hlavu, být proti čemu

He has abandoned much of his Marxist baggage and, so far, set his face against the creation of a formal one-party state.

Jones’s successor was Moss Evans, a Welshman who had worked in the car industry as TGWU National Organizer. He was a man with a limited grasp of wider economic or political implications who had set his face against wage restrictions, or even any notion of a social contract.

China has also failed to adopt what would be the normal tactic of a Western organisation trying to challenge dominant suppliers. It has set its face against cutting prices.

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