1) People in adversity.
2) People in the face of adversity.
Yes, they are both grammatically correct. 2) sounds more like these people are about to be "people in adversity" in the near future. The people in 1) are already in adversity at the present moment.
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Yes, they are both grammatically correct.
2) sounds more like these people are about to be "people in adversity" in the near future. The people in 1) are already in adversity at the present moment.
CJ
They are not sentences, so there is no context. You need to provide the sentence you want your people to be in.