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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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A failed attack, he added, often results in defeat for the attacker, whose forces suddenly become poorly coordinated in the face of a counterattack.
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The report, The Security Impact of Drones: Challenges and Opportunities for the UK, draws together expertise from leading lawyers, manufacturers and military experts to coordinate policy in the face of global proliferation of drones.
The sense of continuity of care for the family must be maintained, while rapidly coordinating additional services, in the face of the child's potential for acute deterioration.
Indeed, the attacks seemed coordinated in the most chilling of ways.
Our discovery of metabolite modules that were significantly preserved across the two temperature conditions suggests that there are not just individual metabolites, but large modules whose coordinate function is invariant in the face of at least mild temperature changes.
The current refugee crisis illustrates once more the limitations of the international community in coordinating matters of burden-sharing in the face of claims of sovereignty by states.
For example, σ factors and anti-σ factors coordinate the rapid response of many processes in the face of environmental changes and are essential for proper transcription (Burgess et al., 1969; Stevens & Rhoton, 1975).
Subsequently, after 2006 the newly formed National Secretary of Risk Management (SNGR) became the main coordinating entity charged with risk mitigation in the face of floods, landslides, volcanic and seismic activity.
Unfortunately, they coordinated in the wrong direction.
Mr. Devedjian, who was untouched by a ministerial reshuffle this week, is responsible for coordinating the various stimulus projects designed to spur growth in the face of the economic downturn.
The programs that are on track for MDG achievement and have proved robust in the face of continued short-term shocks are those that have coordinated and sustained funding mechanisms.
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