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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are hitherto facing" is not correct in standard written English.
The term "hitherto" means "up to this time" or "until now," and it does not fit well with the present continuous tense "are facing."
Example: "The challenges they are facing have been significant, but they have not been resolved hitherto."
Alternatives: "have been facing" or "are currently facing".
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Policy-makers and scientists in Germany are hitherto facing an unexplained contradiction.
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When building application programs for EIB/KNX nodes, one was hitherto faced with low-level constructs.
Torn from support networks in London and elsewhere, they have been scattered to places such as Glasgow's Sighthill housing estate, where non-white faces were hitherto few and far between, and where the local people themselves lived in penury and, as they saw it, in competition with the new arrivals.
Torn from support networks in London and elsewhere, they have been scattered to places like Glasgow's Sighthill housing estate - where non-white faces were hitherto few and far between, and where the local people themselves lived in penury and, as they saw it, in competition with the new arrivals.
What we are facing is ourselves.
Sometimes the fighting was face to face".
"It was face to face," Holley said.
Plenty of people are facing what I am facing now.
That's the danger we're facing".
That's the issue we're facing.
New developments are facing similar cost pressures.
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