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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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Selasi conjures a wonderful tale of loss, leaving and the African immigrant experience in the face of American modernity.
He is careful to distinguish "dignity harms" from the hurt feelings one might experience in the face of speech that offends.
Even Offred's Tale, recorded onto cassette tape and preserved for future generations, is a way of protecting dignity and human experience in the face of oppression.
Oneiric though it appears, this is the world not of Kafka's sleeping but of our waking, and the fascinated unease we experience in the face of it springs from the very fact of our recognition of it as impossible and yet wholly real.
3. Explain to students that although the article and the initial exercise demonstrated a range of emotional responses to receiving traumatic news, some psychologists have developed models or paradigms of stages that patients might experience in the face of a disease or death.
The order and harmony that we experience in the face of the beautiful is subjective, according to Kant; but it is at the same time universal and normative, by virtue of its relation to the conditions of human cognition.
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The author, whose two young children were killed in a car accident, captures the feeling of helpless, almost resolute submission that she experienced in the face of getting news of the disaster: "I immediately felt how impossible it was to raise myself to the scale of the event.
A starting point for involving children with disabilities in DRR initiatives is researching their experiences in the face of disaster, and subsequently designing policies that consider their potential contribution.
The initiatives are key to the American manufacturers' efforts to reverse or at least halt the erosion of market share they're experiencing in the face of foreign competitors.
She questions Galsworthy's recommendation of the novel to sportsmen in the foreword, wondering "how many budding sportsmen might have had conversion experiences in the face of Salten's unrelieved harangue and how many might have instead become alienated".
The study showed that this model appeared to mitigate the negative aspects of women's experience of transfer and facilitate positive birth experiences in the face of having to change a planned place of birth.
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