in the face of

• Flexible exchange rates seem to perform better in the face of shifts in export demand .
  看来变动汇率在面临出口需求变动时能发挥较好的作用。
• He was free from all sycophancy or obsequiousness in the face of the reactionary ruling class ..
  他在反动统治阶级面前没有丝毫的奴颜与媚骨。
• Flexible exchange rates yield an intermediate outcome in the face of capital-flow shocks .
  变动汇率在面临资本流动冲击时能产生一种缓冲的效果。
• Repeated price hikes in the face of unchanging demand can be a formula for economic suicide .
  在总需求不变情况下，一再提高价格，等于经济自杀。
• But the strange expression that he had noticed in the face of the portrait seemed to linger there .
  他刚才看到的古怪表情似乎还留在肖像的脸部。
• He who knows only how to wield a pen usually feels quite helpless in the face of practical problems .
  光会耍笔杆的人，碰到实际问题往往束手无策。
• Doesn't this fly in the face of what you have been preaching so eloquently for so long ?
  难道这不是和你长期以来振振有词宣扬的那些理论大相径庭吗？
• Former president nixon's behavior in the face of the watergate disclosures is a case in point .
  前总统尼克松在水门事件被揭露后的行为就是一个适当的例子。
• In the face of these radical challenges, the king maneuvered to avoid appearing backward or feudal .
  面对这些激进派的挑战，国王运用策略，避免显得落后或封建。