The phrase "flow in the face of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is in opposition to something else. For example, "Despite the difficulties, the support for this project seemed to flow in the face of adversity."
Analysts at Investec said: The company had announced more details around the capital expenditure cuts it hinted at back in January, as it struggles to optimise free cash flow in the face of weaker commodity prices.
These results suggest a local, intra-cerebral autoregulation mechanism, independent of perfusion pressure, capable of preserving grey matter blood flow in the face of decreasing minute volume cerebral blood flow.
Older adults who have spoken two languages since childhood seem to have better cognitive flexibility -- meaning, they are better able to go with the flow in the face of a new or unexpected circumstance -- than adults who only speak one language, according to a Journal of Neuroscience study.
Dobutamine, on the other hand, increases pulmonary blood flow in the face of increasing mean pulmonary pressure and a decrease in PaO2.
(ii) While the extent that HP males outperform LP males is questionable, our original intent was to evaluate whether or not the putative attractiveness of LP males could augment gene flow in the face of strong viability selection (see Introduction).
The increase in tumour tissue was similar to that found in skeletal muscle and small intestine and is likely to be caused by a direct vasoconstricting effect of the drug rather than autoregulation of tumour blood flow in the face of an increase in perfusion pressure.
Research by scientists from France, Belgium and Germany shows that while foraging, the insects maintain a smooth traffic flow even in the face of a potential jam.
With one of its leading banks facing losses of £28 billion, or $40.6 billion, Britain on Monday outlined details of its £100 billion plan to help banks limit their losses from troubled assets — and to get lending flowing again in the face of deteriorating economic conditions.
Although the retention of the 11-plus is popular among the unionist middle classes, the real rewards for the UUP from that electorate will flow from their "thranness" in the face of pressure.
For example, group 1a afferents target motoneuron pools with accuracy, and their connectivity is buffered, so that normal information flow is largely maintained in the face of considerable disturbances [ 34].
