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in the face of
When confronted with, as in It is hard for brokers to be cheerful in the face of a falling stock market . [Late 1800s]
Despite the opposition of, notwithstanding, as in In the face of published statistics, they insist there is no flu epidemic . [Early 1800s] Also see fly in the face of .
Example Sentences
The aspects that I think bothered me the most was the seeming mistrust that people were developing for doctors, the calling into question what was an objective medical fact and what were reasonable protocols in the face of an unknown threat.
“They speak to the ability to keep strength,” Gordon said, “in the face of catastrophe.”
So was it a strategic retreat in the face of unexpected resistance, or yet another example of Trump's "art of the deal" negotiating strategy at work?
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, pushed back against questions from the media over the president backing down in the face of market pressures, as well as assessments from the country’s major banking institutions, such as JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, that his new trade policy would push the country into recession.
At the twilight of his career in public service, Sanders has become something he’s never been before: The lifelong independent has transformed into a genuine leader of the Democratic Party—one of its lonely ringleaders providing a political alternative in the face of Trump 2.0.
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