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What does in the face of mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word in the face of? Here's what it means.

Preposition
  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) despite, against, contrary to
  2. (idiomatic, archaic or law) on the face of
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To equivocate in the face of it would be an absolute abdication of intellectual responsibility.
It's about upholding national sovereignty in the face of fancy, transnational treaties, like the Human Rights Act.
Terror in the face of potentially false memories was one issue McNally hoped to study with abductees.
That conclusion, Mr Phillips says, flies in the face of the evidence recorded at paragraph 86 and shows that it was left out of account.
Absent a critical cultural adaptation, human beings could never have thrived in the face of this constraint.
They forget that keeping silent in the face of injustice makes them accomplices of the criminals.

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