The phrase "argued in the face" is not a standard expression in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used when discussing a situation where someone presents an argument despite facing opposition or challenges.
Example: "She argued in the face of criticism, insisting that her approach was valid."
Alternatives: "contended despite" or "argued against opposition".
Earlier this year he successfully argued, in the face of C.I.A. protests, for the release of legal memorandums produced by the Justice Department during the Bush administration.
Its founder, Bill Arnett, a white collector and curator in his seventies, had long argued, in the face of a range of institutional defenses and biases in New York and elsewhere, that the African-American artists he and others had found working in obscurity deserved serious consideration.
Publisher News UK has previously publicly argued, in the face of mounting opposition from critics including the No More Page 3 campaign, that the feature remains popular with its readers and those who want rid of it do not buy the paper.
The positive case for spoilers is even stronger if you are persuaded by those who argue, in the face of common sense, that suspense survives certainty.
This person would not necessarily be granted full parental rights but would at least have standing to argue, in the face of a legal parent's objection, that a child's best interests would be served by a continued relationship.
The commission report discloses that Ferguson attempted to argue – in the face of seemingly irrefutable TV footage – that he had not even said Atkinson was not a "fair" referee, that he had retracted the offending word immediately and had laid greater vocal emphasis on the word "strong".
During this time she was a member of the Edinburgh Ladies Debating Societyy, a forum which helped her gain confidence arguing in the face of opposition.
Mr. Santorum argued in the book that many problems facing the poor could be solved by building stronger families and communities, including by making divorce more difficult and providing fatherhood training programs.
As argued in the World Health Report 2005, many countries facing current shortages of midwifery providers have been at the mercy of misguided, albeit well intentioned, advice from external donors recommending policy changes to create a multipurpose worker [ 2, 20] or seeing midwifery care as a voluntary occupation that can be performed by a traditional healer or traditional birth attendant.
And Stephen Schwartz argues in "The Two Faces of Islam" that the closeness to power of one who proclaims Jewish women to be Muslim slaves illustrates the deep hypocrisy and corruption of politics in Saudi Arabia, a country that promotes and fosters an extreme, intolerant, terroristic Islamic cult even as it presents itself, in Crawford and other places, as pro-Western and moderate.
Some pundits argued that in the face of the IRGC's growing role in domestic crackdown, the uprising was in decline after the protests on February 11 did not meet expectations.
