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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Similarly, it occurs when the express train waits and the local arrives, only to depart in the face of the express passengers.
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Arguing with himself, arguing with James Joyce, fretting about Israel, heaping praise on his computer and scorn on his body, he writes in the face of departing memory and approaching death with a vitality that exceeds that of much contemporary fiction.
Composers, who had reigned like gods over the dearly departed nineteenth century, were uncertain and quizzical in the face of the new device.
Reporters stand behind a string of red velvet ropes, waiting to shove a recorder in the face of a senator departing the floor.
The Commission was among the first to challenge reverse payment deals, and under the leadership of its recently departed Chair Jon Leibowitz, it doggedly brought case after case in the face of many courtroom losses.
Buser had entered Rikers as a self-described "idealistic intern," and in the face of wanton brutality, she departed a hardened veteran of American mass incarceration's greatest woes.
But before he departed for New York, Mr. Netanyahu said, "I will tell the truth in the face of the sweet talk and the onslaught of smiles".
This analysis departs somewhat from that theme – malaria vector species are expected to undergo distributional shifts in the face of changing climates that will leave fewer people overall in areas suitable for the important vector species.
Sir Anthony Seldon, the departing headteacher of Wellington College, has criticised his colleagues, saying that private schools are flinching in the face of government, aggressive parents and universities.
The Rural Alberta Advantage, based in Toronto, share NMH's uplifting sense of no-fi abandonment in the face of personal anguish, as evinced on their excellent second album, Departing.
That desire, not publicly expressed in the face of opposition around the country, led me to join Helena Kennedy in departing from the majority and opposing a British bill of rights.
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