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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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On prominent display is a souvenir from "The Daily Show," a plate emblazoned with the face of the original host, Craig Kilborn; it's topsy-turvy.
Worked out independently in the 1860s by German mathematicians Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Elwin Bruno Christoffel, the formula can be used to morph any polygon--such as an octagonal stop sign--onto a circle in such a way that intersecting straight lines drawn on the face of the original polygon will still cross at the same angles after the transformation bends them.
They can also smudge the details; while everyone was cheering for Corbyn they forgot that he had promised the Labour party would vote for Trident renewal, flying in the face of the original political ethos of the festival.
Seth Horstmeyer, a program director at ocean conservation nonprofit Oceans 5, told HuffPost that allowing fishing in these areas would "fly in the face" of the original purpose of these sites, which is to protect resources and restore the health of the ocean, including fish stocks.
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The faces of the original block, slab, or cylinder of material can usually still be sensed, existing around the finished work as a kind of implied spatial envelope limiting the extension of the forms in space and connecting their highest points across space.
Indeed, the claim that Sandberg didn't even know the agency worked for Facebook flies in the face of the company's original response, in which it wrote that its "relationship with Definers was well-known by the media".
Laughter dies in the face of the supremely matter-of-fact original.
These so-called magical proportions (about 5 by 8) are common in the shapes of books, television sets and credit cards, and they provide the underlying structure for some of the most beloved designs in history: the facades of the Parthenon and Notre Dame, the face of the "Mona Lisa," the Stradivarius violin and the original iPod.
In one moment that's actually spooky — something you don't expect from the jokey, often tinny "Psych" — the camera pans up from the face of Paula Merral to the face of the coroner, and it's Ms. Lee, the original Laura Palmer, in effect looking down at her own corpse.
Joyce Carol Oates's struggles for profundity in the face of the format have a sharp poignancy: "Original purpose of religion — (unconscious) wish to live forever.
The aim of our study was the objective evaluation of the psychological benefits from CMC following surgical treatment for skin cancer of the face, using the original integration of two validated tools for health-related quality of life assessment.
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