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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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Disappointed by the mainstream candidates and enthralled by the fierce and witty language of Mr. Mélenchon, they have been joined by many of the angry and jobless, young and old, who say they feel unprotected in the face of the economic crisis.
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As Mojola [ 13] notes, "[T]his orientation, along with heightened uncertainty of life expectance, and cultural norms supporting living life to the fullest might partly account for why unprotected sexual relationships persisted in the face of growing AIDS related mortality".
Unmanaged greenery such as unprotected young secondary forests continues to be lost in the face of continuous development despite its socio-ecological values.
In that case, information, hardware, and applications are left unprotected in face of many external and/or internal hacker attacks.
The best chance Manchester City managed to create came right at the end of the first half when Agüero rolled a cross right across the face of an unprotected goal with no one available to tap it in.
He miscued a presentable volley, dragged another effort agonisingly across the face of goal, then shot fiercely wide with an unprotected net at his mercy.
But they would leave behind tens of thousands of other troops unprotected, in the middle of a civil war, indefinitely.
For a gangster, these animals are like bundles of cash lying almost unprotected in the wilderness.
Chris Osgood will face his former teammates for the first time Saturday night, after the Detroit Red Wings left him unprotected in the waiver draft two weeks ago.
The transport department, like the energy department, is unprotected in terms of cuts and will face steep reductions to its budget – meaning resources there are also over-stretched.
As I wrote in this publication two years ago, trans people face frequent harassment, mistreatment, and discrimination in the workplace; and even today they remain largely unprotected by law (in the majority of states you can be fired for being trans).
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