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Idiom
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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"And the behavior of the seated ones in the face of those too seeking seats, this sickens me even more," he went on.
In essence, his moral calculus holds that "most violence will always be unjustified" -- but that it is legitimate when used in defense of one's self and loved ones in the face of imminent violence.
Unfortunately he overdid the open-mindedness, abandoning good theories for worse ones in the face of weak counter-arguments and sometimes forgetting some of his own best insights (a forgivable fault in given the fountain of good ideas that seemed to be continually erupting in his head).
Questions of where consideration for the individual ends and the rights of the majority begin remain valid ones in the face of limited resources.
As supported by Komisar, Feder and Kasper [ 13], older adults in lower-income households may not be able to supplement publicly funded services with privately funded ones in the face of inadequate informal help.
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But on this one, in the face of the massacre in Sandy Hook and in the face of the countless deaths by gun violence across America every day, we do agree and we have chosen to speak.
"No one in the face of these horrors reacted with the dispassion the law supposed," Mr. Turow writes.
After that would come an intricate rescue maneuver involving the use of an air lock at the top of the shaft to retrieve the men one by one in the face of decompression dangers.
But the process was a slow one in the face of continued opposition from the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, which remained distinctly unenthusiastic about anything linked to Europe, even though the convention and the court have nothing to do with the European Commission.
It was a good strategy, if a manipulative one: In the face of this final bit of pressure, many of my clients caved.
On the one hand, in the face of mortal danger they do not have the sense, or the speed, to flee.
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