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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This may be particularly challenging in tone languages as learners have to develop tone representations in the face of intonational variation in order to accurately recognize words.
Moreover, an increase in the magnitude of frontal theta oscillations and increased frontal-posterior theta coherence are thought to reflect the executive functions of the working memory system (Sauseng et al. 2005) or top-down processes which help to maintain long-term memory (LTM) representations in the face of interference (Sarnthein et al. 1998; Sauseng et al. 2007).
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In Rebgong, Makley (2013) found that the revival of rituals associated with a mountain deity was at the centre of contests over land ownership and political representation in the face of state mandated urbanisation.
Then there was former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, whose continued presence within the political realm has served as a potent reminder that visibility and representation must persist in the face of violent resistance.
The author is you and the sentence is your life;" thus, in the case of these tattoos, it is a physical representation of personal strength in the face of internal struggle.
In representational therapies, therapeutic exchanges target parental representations of close relationships that prevail in the face of treatment, both in relation to the therapist and in the parents' interactions with the child.
Bordogna says ADVANCE, by opening the door to all applicants, might also serve as a model for NSF's programs to increase minority representation, some of which have collapsed in the face of legal assaults on their exclusivity ( Science, 16 April 1999, p. 411).
Indonesia says it is to press ahead with the execution of nine drug smugglers this week in the face of frantic diplomatic and legal representations.
In the face of global competition, German manufacturing workers' representation remains strong.
Although outwardly relenting in the face of pressure exerted by the dominions for representation in war decisions, Churchill routinely marginalised or ignored that representation.
Indeed, the slap-in-the-face principle could apply to any public representations of religious beliefs or nonbeliefs other than one's own, whether by government or not.
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