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Idiom
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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Instead of being an absolute catastrophe, a scandal that could have prematurely jeopardized his new status, Silver's decisiveness in the face of a potentially damaging controversy might end up being the defining moment of his reign.
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In the face of new threats from Germany, he conducted diplomacy with new decisiveness and determination.
But a belief in belief is something this book lams into elsewhere: the Americans' propensity for decisiveness in the absence of policy.
In this paper we also consider weaker notions of decisiveness, derive further results on decisiveness in the important context of sampling from genome-scale data, and examine the utility of the concept in real phylogenomic data sets.
The danger now is that a belated show of decisiveness in the next few weeks will end in a bloody disaster.
By parity of reason, one is tempted to discern similar acts of decisiveness in the abortion drop-off numbers.
Rather, he would repeatedly be calling Brezhnev and Andropov strong leaders and praising their intelligence and their brutal decisiveness in confronting the slightest manifestations of ideological dissent.
Jokowi, by contrast, has been lauded for his "decisiveness" in his running of the central Javanese city of Solo, during which he pushed through innovative policies.
"The government has shown strong leadership and decisiveness in a time of great uncertainty.
A weaker sense of decisiveness is embodied in the notion of a "grove" of phylogenetic trees ([ 56]; reviewed in a less mathematical exposition in [ 57]). Figure 6 illustrates a taxon coverage pattern that is not decisive for any tree.
There is value in this decisiveness, in that it gives the perception of forward motion.
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