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If people act in the face of something, they do it despite it or when threatened by it.
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The judge in that case, Richard Mawrey QC, condemned the government for complacency in the face of fraud that, he said, would disgrace a "banana republic".
The most vivid and unflagging columnist on the issue is Gideon Levy, who for many years has been ferociously attacking the Israeli government for sponsoring the "criminal enterprise" of settlements, the Israeli Army for war crimes during the bombing of Gaza, two years ago, the Israeli media for "dehumanizing" the Palestinians, and the Israeli people for complacency in the face of injustice.
My friend and sometime fishing partner Carl Safina, the marine scientist, conservationist and writer (who lives on Long Island), wrote a hard-edged piece for the CNN Web site calling out coastal communities and the nation for complacency in the face of climate change and rising seas.
"Fortunately, the character I play is someone who is fighting, and I've used it to inspire me to keep fighting," said Mr. Steggert, who has a particularly memorable moment in Act II when he condemns his brother-in-law for complacency in the face of racial injustice.
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And they know the consequences of complacency in the face of danger".
The Conservatives' earlier 15-point lead over the Liberals halved, as the opposition parties accused Mr Harper of complacency in the face of world financial turmoil.
This "litany for survival" admonishes complacency in the face of incessant violence while cultivating a poetics of undoing, "unlearning," and unrestricted refusal--Wilson does not hold back in naming that which cannot be unseen, that which propels them towards surviving and healing on their own terms.
With coal, direct action had an absolutely critical effect in awakening the Government to the contradictions between what it was saying about the need for carbon reductions and its apparent complacency in the face of power industry proposals for new coal-burning power stations".
FOR American commentators who like to denounce European complacency in the face of an increasingly assertive Islam, France is an intriguing test-case.
Fatal complacency in the face of an inferior opponent.
Can the Chinese government afford complacency in the face of their quiet activism?
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