The 1782 epidemic was soon followed by direct, face-to-face contact with Europeans.

Some birth and adoptive parents agree they would like to stay in face-to-face contact.

"Increasingly, we don't want face-to-face contact all the time with businesses," he said.

Inevitably there is less face-to-face contact between members and communication must often take place via staff.

At least when face-to-face contact is made you are fairly certain that the message gets through.

Seats were along one side of each table, with no face-to-face contact.

Still, I hoped that face-to-face contacts could be kept to a minimum.

It seems that, at some point in a relationship, we need the physical, face-to-face contact.

However, if you have creative ideas and good material, face-to-face contact is by no means necessary.

These web services allow people all over the world to communicate through digital means without face-to-face contact.