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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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It was a coup d'theatre, for on the surface Putin's offer made him look — if you hadn't been following the story — like an alarmed elder statesman concerned with due process in the face of cowboy Obama's heedless rush to war.
Goldberg, who is known to be close to the president, wrote that Israel risked becoming "more of a pariah" and that Obama was reluctant to invest fresh effort in the Middle East peace process in the face of Netanyahu's continued settlement expansion.
Mr. Trimble has been a calming and progressive force in the unionist camp, keeping his party engaged in the crisis-ridden peace settlement process in the face of strong opposition from associates who are against the accord and covet his leadership position.
As researchers move past the idea of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) as locked in a static state (Ruttan 1999; Agrawal and Gibson 1999), perhaps the more relevant question pertains not to the body of knowledge itself, but the obstacles faced in applying, adapting and owning the learning process in the face of modernity (Gómez-Baggethun and Reyes-García 2013).
Ryu countered that it made little sense to continue the rezoning process in the face of community opposition.
Perhaps as remarkable as the speed with which young humans learn language is the robustness of this process in the face of adverse conditions (Bishop & Mogford, 1993).
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Their concurrent activation therefore suggests that interdependent cognitive/attentional (44) and somatic (autonomic) (45) mechanisms are invoked to maintain performance and compensate for compromised fluency in cognitive processes in the face of increased conflict from interoceptive processing demands during inflammatory states.
This is one reason why some biological sciences preferentially invoke higher level entities and processes in the face of multiple realization, explaining in terms of higher level natural kinds and causes.
In summary, current evidence suggests that in glomerular hypertension podocytes primarily aim to maintain the delicate architecture of interdigitating foot processes in the face of an expanding GBM area.
Importantly, grazer diversity tended to stabilize these ecosystem processes in the face of predation; specifically, crabs decreased GEP (Fig. 5A) and respiration (Fig. 5B) only in the zero- and one- species grazer levels, resulting in a significant predator by grazer interaction for these variables (Table 1).
These findings may reflect coping processes in the face of the uncertainty of living with an incurable, progressive disease [ 68].
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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