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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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The new regime in Qatar has curtailed its regional interventions in the face of more robust Saudi initiatives in Syria and Egypt, and in the wake of the relative decline of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and across the region.
At the same time, they have sought to measure the outcomes and costs of these interventions, in the face of constant and increasing fiscal pressures and their political consequences [ 1].
Over the past 2.5 years, a complete management structure for the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of multi-sectoral emergency interventions has been introduced, which has been successful in facilitating the delivery of timely and high quality interventions in the face of the flood and storm disasters that have struck central and southern Vietnam since 2001.
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The French foreign minister had pressed for intervention, in the face of initial American scepticism.
Steinberg, who worked extensively on the issue in the Clinton era, was an obvious candidate; but Biden enjoyed enormous credibility in Bosnia and Kosovo, where as a senator he advocated military intervention in the face of Serbian aggression.
Simms proposes in a pivotal judgment that "the new Muslim geopolitics of the 1990s" – whose outcomes we live with now - "was a reaction not to western meddling but to non-intervention in the face of genocide and ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia.
It is this "better government" that has enabled African Americans to make strides in this country and trust government despite its past failings, and why a community like Flint can still call for government intervention in the face of betrayal.
And he criticizes the counterproductive consequences of Western intervention: "In the face of Islamic terrorism, it would therefore be better to question ourselves about the way in [which] an overly Western model of democracy has been exported to countries such as Iraq, where a strong government previously existed.
In this episode, the glee club stages an outing intervention flying in the face of all of the lessons learned from the Kurt bullying story line.
The need for detailed data is also important for the assessment of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of intervention measures in the face of competing strategies.
Our analysis indicates that not only are there endemic and natural forces that make the financial system highly volatile; but also that swift, effective intervention is needed in the face of financial collapse.
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