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In the face of.
If people act in the face of something, they do it despite it or when threatened by it.
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US Airways executives have expressed a mix of trepidation and confidence in the face of the competitive onslaught.
In a statement on Saturday, Bertrand Piccard said his father "passed on to me a sense of curiosity, a desire to mistrust dogmas and common assumptions, a belief in free will, and confidence in the face of the unknown".
She has been approached about returning to Broadway before, including for a revival of the musical "Mame," but she said she had been afraid of the rigors of the spotlight — eight performances a week, as a character, required real technique, stamina and confidence in the face of audience assumptions about her abilities.
And Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, said in a statement, "A great ally and admirer of the United States and a trusted partner of Ronald Reagan during some of the most challenging days of the cold war, Margaret Thatcher never hesitated to remind Americans of their own obligations to the cause of freedom and of the need for political courage and confidence in the face of long odds".
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"Confidence in the face of criticism and the ability to challenge and support comes from knowing each other well".
The world is "collectively suffering from a crisis of confidence in the face of a deteriorating economic outlook," she said.
This same resolute confidence in the face of all public concern is seen in other areas of policing too.
Williams has been highlighting our absurd confidence in the face of cosmic obliteration since her collection Taking Care first appeared in 1982.
Their confidence in the face of hardship is driven by the ability to let go of the negativity that holds so many otherwise sensible people back.
To her, it symbolized a spunky defiance that she could appreciate: self-confidence in the face of humiliation and defeat.
His words evoke his fearless self-confidence in the face of racism.
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