We won the contract in the face of stiff competition.

面对激烈的竞争，我们赢得了这项合同。

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There is no doubt that spaceflight entails risks, and to pioneer a new mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce them with the benefit of hard-won experience.

毫无疑问，太空飞行是有风险的，而开创一种新的旅行方式就是要面对这些风险，并利用来之不易的经验来减少这些风险。

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He won't. You should've seen his face.

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Needless to say, he won every face-off, though his success seems due as much to technique as to upper body strength.

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After Marcus Foligno won a face-off in the Rangers' end, Stafford scored.

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Steve Ott won the face off to left of the Flyers net, and fed it back to Ehrhoff at the point, where his shot sailed five feet wide of the net.

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