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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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Over the past three decades, social scientists have conducted in-depth studies of how laypeople discover and act on environmental problems, typically in the face of a crisis or discovery that has placed the "contaminated community" (Edelstein 1988, 2004) in the public eye.
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According to Trump, Sessions "took the job and then he said, 'I'm going to recuse myself.' I said what kind of a man is this?" But Sessions has typically remained stoic in the face of public criticism from the president, who has repeatedly called him "weak" and "beleaguered" for failing to investigate Clinton and the Obama administration.
These types of anti-windup compensators are typically designed to recover performance in the face of windup but can result in loss of performance (including stability) for the closed loop in the face of uncertainty.
That's far more than the 7% or so that FASEB typically calls for and flies in the face of President Barack Obama's plan to freeze domestic discretionary spending.
A boxing match, unlike most programming on television, isn't typically at risk of being cancelled in the face of public uproar.
Researchers typically use collections for free, though in the face of dwindling budgets, some institutions are discussing charging researchers for access, says Andrew Bentley, ichthyology collection manager at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and president of SPNHC, who helped write the joint letter.
Typically, high insulin levels are maintained in the face of high plasma glucose, due to the reduced effects of insulin on fat, liver, and muscle cells.
My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly -- that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.
Hazard assessments for long-dormant volcanoes, where information is rarely available, typically have to be made rapidly and in the face of considerable uncertainty and often poor information.
Since its origins in the late 1950s, skateboarding has typically been perceived as thrusting a rebellious two fingers in the face of controlling authorities, parents and schools.
Existing linear, stationary disturbance models are oftentimes limiting in the face of time-varying characteristics typically witnessed in process industries.
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