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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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"We just don't know what to do in the face of something so horrible".
It's hard to take that away even in the face of something scary and seemingly insurmountable".
We have never lost our solidarity in the face of something so difficult".
Their helplessness and human failings in the face of something truly malevolent gets under my skin every time.
What is there, in the face of something insurmountable like this, but keeping a record of it?
This quietness in the face of something that feels, to some women, so physically and emotionally overwhelming can be confusing.
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But even in the face of genius, something nagged at me.
"They remained very calm even in the face of knowing something was very wrong," Thoms said.
It's the capacity to be flexible in the face of change — something families tend to do better than governments.
The school's decrepitude, however, with piles of rotting newspapers and broken anatomical skeletons, points to the uselessness of accumulated human knowledge in the face of death – something the weary doctor knows.
In its behaviour at the UN Security Council, the Bush Administration is effectively "retreating in the face of evil"; something George Bush promised in his State of the Union speech that the US would never do".
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in the face of one
in the face of this
in the face of trying
in the face of things
in the face of data
in the face of silence
in the case of something
in the coffin of something
in the face of sense
in the presence of something
in the shape of something
in the explanation of something
in the face of pain
in the house of something
in the face of fragmentation
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