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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 mud is so abundant that it is "as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth"; in what may be the only dinosaur cameo in Victorian literature, Dickens imagines a forty-foot Megalosaurus slogging through it up Holborn Hill.
As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the Earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill".
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Europeans and Americans have retired from the field in the face of murder and threats.
As final conclusion, Perumal et al. (2017) claimed that the NLM model should be retired from the literature of the Muskingum model.
Cooper retired from the practice of law in 1989.
He retired from the practice of law in 2002.
Fired from his job as a fifth-grade teacher at a "second-rate" private school, he decides to retire and, in the face of his own mortality, feels "a mild stirring of curiosity".
In December 2012, he retired from the Public Health Service after 33 years of dedicated federal service.
All five of the officers under investigation have retired from the police, which means that they will not face any disciplinary action that may have resulted.
At some point in time, when you're retired from the game, you're going to be faced with possibilities.
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