in the face of

And so many of us are flying in the face of it, so I’m not really worried about that.

My Barron’s colleagues Rebecca Ungarino and Andrew Welsch report that credit losses and spending are holding up in the face of worries about economic and labor market growth.

It takes courage to maintain integrity in the face of comments like that by someone with such power.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has told parliament he backs suspending controversial 2023 pension reforms, in the face of crucial votes of no-confidence later this week.

His campaign encompasses attacks on COVID-19 vaccines, which have been shown over the years to have saved millions of people from death, hospitalization or long-term disability; his firing members of professional advisory boards at his agency and replacing them with anti-vaccine activists; his promotion of unproven “cures” for vaccine-preventable diseases; and his inaction in the face of a nationwide surge in cases of measles, a disease that was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.