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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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"Lerner's violations of basic conflict of interest laws were brazen and continued in the face of warnings about his conduct," Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.
That a region with only one native cattle breed, Pirenaica, has continued – in the face of global intensive farming – to cultivate such a specialist product, is testament to that obsession.
This is a case where the selling continued in the face of clear oversold territory.
That river of denial continued in the face of a New York Times editorial pointing out the anti-abortion campaign to destroy Planned Parenthood using the deceptively edited videos as a centerpiece -- an editorial that so offended the MRC that three separate writers were dispatched to bash it.
But after the great financial crisis in 2008, when wage stagnation in the U.S. continued in the face of high debt ratios, the losers from globalization on both the left and the right started to get organized, represented by anti-establishment champions such as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
This decline has continued in the face of attempts to rein in unprecedented healthcare expenditures, where hospital care accounts for ~1/3 of the spending [ 14].
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The challenge now is to ensure that this progress continues in the face of growing longevity.
The arms race continues in the face of a sobering financial reality.
Getting lots of attention especially if it continues in the face of fierce competition is a powerful aphrodisiac.
Poets have long pointed out that life continues in the face of death: WH Auden in "Musée des Beaux Arts" among them.
Such evasion would be less likely to continue in the face of a comprehensive audit by the Government Accountability Office.
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