How To Use Confront In A Sentence

In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
From a pure box-office point of view, all of us can surely relish the sort of muscular macho, the one-on-one confrontation on view when a Phil Vickery meets a Christian Califano.
She had a series of heated confrontation with her parents over homework.
The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
Once the bewitcher is unmasked they are then confronted and asked to call off the attack.

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Thailand and Cambodia said they have made progress in settling a border dispute that sparked a deadly military confrontation last month. My Sinchew -
But there was understandable outrage when sundry fund managers and regional stockbrokers were confronted with the hat. Times, Sunday Times
The world will be no less confrontational just because of its economic plight; in all probability it will be more so. Times, Sunday Times
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Solicitors taking a confrontational approach can often inflame the situation rather than calm it. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
The camera remains centered on the individuals as they speak, but pulls back when verbal confrontations occur.
It was wonderful, an Orkney village confronted with a swan, a selkie, and a dragon, and the consequences of allowing (or forcing) them to live among humans, as humans. "And when the waves came crashing down, he closed his eyes and softly kissed her."
These are tasks which confront legal theory and political philosophy together.
Here again he is adopting a course of confrontation, a course of deliberate challenge to established authority.
Given its inherent curiosity, even the simplest mind will exhaust itself devising solutions to challenges it confronts.
But if the international community wants the hopeful prospects for the days, months and years ahead to materialize for Iraq, we must confront the reality of Saddam Hussein's intransigency. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2003
It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation.
Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
The fear is that these minor clashes may develop into all-out confrontation.
Both sides offered wide explanatory power going beyond the facts at hand, both had strong supporting evidence but both also were confronted with anomalies. Science, Technology, and Social Change
The country has no appetite for a fresh military confrontation. The Sun
America is making a broad and determined effort to confront these dangers.
Here she came face to face with the welfare and social problems confronting large families.
Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
But then it helps you to understand all this darkness and negativity and you begin to confront and deal with it. Times, Sunday Times
Those confronting the Raj here were poor, unlettered peasants.
They will confront all those issues when the money comes in. Times, Sunday Times
Our cowardly lion of a bureaucracy throws issue after issue into the long grass when confronted by the mice that roar. Times, Sunday Times
Chinese writers, he confronts the troubling complexities of recent history by means of a simple parable that reaches far beyond the boundaries of its fictional world. The Times Literary Supplement
Then we confront a full view of the main sanctuary shot from the southwest corner of the inner compound.
Emergency workers arrived at the scene to be confronted by the enormous size of the landslide and hundreds of homeless families. Times, Sunday Times
Richards confronts us unapologetically with all the seamier aspects of his life, to the point where the reader -- I refer here to myself -- finds himself asking: Why am I reading this? Peter Clothier: Keef
The poem outlined his experience of being gender-fluid and sprang from being confronted with old photos at his grandparents' house.
It was only when confronted with the loathing so many on the left feel for him that I discovered how much there was to admire in the doughty old demagogue.
I was constantly confronted with my own weaknesses, my hunger, my low tolerance for pain.
He could then, very easily, make the confrontation with the Centre an issue and go back to the people.
Ministers underestimated the magnitude of the task confronting them.
Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Cranmer
Are New Agers just simply home-grown nature-lovers, or are they one of the greatest dangers to confront Christendom?
The young couple she confronted with this information today seemed bemused and uncertain how to react.
She didn't want to confront the inescapable fact that she would have to sell the house.
I confronted several of the teachers present over what I considered the abuse of students in their charge.
That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage, if she was honest.
The King made major concessions to end the confrontation with his people.
By the time of Hasni's death, rai music was a major front in the confrontation between Algerian Islamism and the secular forces it sought to overcome.
Consider what he says to her when she confronts him: he admits that he ‘overreacted.’
For most managers, hardly a day goes by without confronting the challenge of employee motivation.
The 33-year-old was confronted by two youths while walking under a railway bridge. The Sun
Move to the Left, encourage mass protest, and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation.
Perhaps Spain should remain a part of Hapsburg domains, but this might lead to confrontation with France.
On the right hand of the Judge are -- not the Jews confronting the Gentiles on the left -- nor exactly the well-conducted and well-balanced people who get there in Greek allegories -- but a group of men and women who realize where they are with a gasp of surprise. The Jesus of History
Muslims, instead of being the recipients of more and yet more kinds of aid (that we do not extend to non-Muslims), are forced to start confronting what Islam itself has caused, and what might have been had the "gift of Islam" never arrived in the vast swath of territories that were conquered by the forces of Islam, containing many peoples who found that with Islam came the attempt at arabization. David Horowitz Freedom Center
Whatever the reason, Sullivan was convinced that he would now witness the final confrontation between the two men.
The girls confront each other about their dead mom and their growing estrangement.
“The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues. or Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 21, 2010
An organization that accepts the antipsychiatry mantra that we have medicalized everything, and their devotion to confronting abuse, but rejects their position that mental illness does not exist. DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
Author of "Allah, Liberty & Love" Irshad Manji confronts the meanings and uses of the term "respect" and the key to love. Islam Needs Reformists, Not 'Moderates'
Oil prices briefly rose on the news about the confrontation as dealers weighed the threat to shipments along the key shipping route.
In this kind of environment, post-feminism confronts the young feminist as something of a briar patch to be negotiated with care.
Today's intellectual pessimism and cultural disorientation distracts the human imagination from confronting challenges that lie ahead.
Vases of every shape and design, minimalist masks that look like faces and vice-versa, and numerous experiments with geometry confront the visitor.
We confront instead the difficult, non-relative, question as to how best we are to live in harmony with people whose value-judgements differ very greatly from our own.
Anyone who has any acquaintance with the Bible will know that prophets regularly used strong language when confronted with hypocrisy or decadence.
It forced me to confront a messy tangle of emotions.
Mr Woodcock's wife Mandy and 18-month-old daughter Maisie were only yards away when he was abused and "mooned" at by young yobs after he went to confront them. Evening Mail news round-up
Placed there to confront and confound him.
In other words, we are confronted with an intractable conflict attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
Strategies to confront class inequality, sexism, racism and homophobia started to be discussed.
You must confront your fears and doubts and take risks again and again.
COSCO Group's tanker fleet development is also confronted with challenges from domestic same trade .
We confronted him with the evidence
We also confronted the challenges and exerted our utmost efforts to bridge the various gaps and differences existing in the region.
Entering, you are confronted with what appears to be a blow-up of a Seventies newsprint photograph of a star.
When women do confront sexism, the glib reply is often that it is a joke.
There is not much difference, except in the "soothfastness"; the author is closer to his subject, his imagination is confronted with something very near reality, and is not helped, as in the older stories, by traditional imaginative modifications of his subject. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
But then it helps you to understand all this darkness and negativity and you begin to confront and deal with it. Times, Sunday Times
Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.
She realized she had lost the companionable Nick and was once again confronted with the strange, quiet, and somewhat frightening, angry Nick.
The prisoner was confronted with his.
Why was Hitler allowed to remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria, and invade Czechoslovakia before the Allies confronted him over his incursion into Poland in September 1939?
Workers will take the money, which they richly deserve, but it should not stop us seeing the big agenda and confronting the share scheme.
Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
The pretext to begin circulating Perry's name for a presidential run will be easily established, and the Tea Partiers that he energized with his irresponsible talk of secession will slowly turn pragmatic and confront the question of who can win in 2012. James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya!
Where he is different is that he is taking a less confrontational approach with his players. Times, Sunday Times
With the advent of the government's new programme, the ruling elite is now orientating itself towards just such a confrontation.
But, I do know that a swan is not the sort of beast you want a confrontation with.
Instead I was confronted with a grimy-looking building with billboards covering the windows and obscuring the interior.
Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
Mr Rumsfeld is the man who, in February 2002, used the phrase "unknown unknowns" to describe the main dangers in any possible confrontation with Iraq. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Pastors want to avoid such ugly confrontations for their families. Christianity Today
Emerging from the beauty shop resplendent in a new coiffure , a woman was confronted by a neighbor.
Shaking with uncontrollable fury, she stood up to confront him.
We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
The government found itself confronted by massive opposition.
They were pretty useless when confronted with the high-pitched whine of the rotor's gears directly above our heads.
I have tried to instil the same respect for police to my children, and grandchildren though I suspect, if sucessful, my granddaughter (age 5) will be of a generation who does not proactively engage police in a confrontation. Police Rudeness Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Ticos are some of the most friendly and nonconfrontational people in the world. Moving to Costa Rica
The road curved, and I emerged from a copse to confront a splendid panorama.
Like any confidence man, the coercer can only exploit a weakness that we refuse to confront directly, ourselves.
The public forum is not the place to confront a critic. Christianity Today
Whether he is playing to Islamic radicals or simply taking a final poke at George Bush, his confrontation with America and the world will soon be one more problem for Mr.Clinton.
Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune.
I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design.
With the punishing economic downturn, police officers in many American cities are confronting what they describe as a surge in property crime.
The basis of this weekly Robin installment is Baldeon's full-page image (click on thumbnail to the right) of the current Robin (Tim Drake) and the original Robin, now Nightwing (Dick Grayson), about to confront each other over ... well, some pool of immortality thing -- I wasn't really following. Archive 2008-04-01
For the same reason that I counsel my children on how to handle themselves in a confrontation, rather than attempting to modify the behavior of everyone with whom they may come into contact with: achievability. Self defense and the reasonable woman
It is not easy to imagine a mechanical analogue of the brain that could faithfully reproduce the intertexture of all the types of thinking appropriate to all the situations that human beings confront, together with the nonlogical modes through which ideas are associated in the “stream of consciousness.” Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition of last year's confrontation.
When she confronted him, ‘He told [her] that he was getting a pension and that he would give her one half of what he Recieved if she would not have him arrested for bigamy.’
The opposition appear to have chosen the path of cooperation rather than confrontation.
But our haimish breed of armchair soldiers hasn't been confronted with the draft, rationing, or the bill for our foreign adventures; these homespun hawks haven't had to cut back on resources, food, or any comfort, however slight, as part of the war effort. Ben Tripp: It's Time to Grow Up
One day soon he will be confronted by a classmate on campus and he will be told emphatically: stop being such a douche.
It's supposed to give us freedom of action in a confrontation with a nuclear-armed state.
It came just four months after another BBC expose, Kenyon Confronts, used covert footage to show three trainers claiming horses could be prevented from winning certain races in order to lower handicaps.
Integrity in promise-keeping, at times, confronts countervailing considerations of human welfare.
The heart and soul of the movie is Alan, a shy Texan teetotaller who's confronted with a display of bacchanalian excess that would've impressed Caligula.
She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
For the pioneers who set out to confront these lands, following trailblazers like Daniel Boone, the conquest of the West is a story of courage and hardship that forges the character of America.
When he stands up and defends himself, well, that's when it turns from just some maybe horseplay to the flicking of the arm to the violent confrontation.
The only way to get to the bottom of it is to confront the chairman.
Because she's in Auckland, and because it had been planned that I was going up there this coming weekend, I felt that I had to confront the issue right now, and avoid any unpleasantness later in the week or when I got up there.
The point is not to seek confrontation for its own sake.
The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation.
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence -- an intense ratcheting up of one of the group's longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters ... Boing Boing
The history of many colleges can be seen as periods of conflict and confrontation alternating with periods of consolidation and relative calm.
FALLUJAH, IRAQ – After three days of measurable progress, American forces trying to take full control of Fallujah are confronting an insurgent force that has renewed energy. Archive 2004-11-01
It was another striker versus goalkeeper confrontation which ought to have gone to the man in possession.
ne brandy and talked of whatever danger was currently confronting the kingdom. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Her eyes confronted the stone and her whole being froze in immobility. Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
A broadcaster of gentlemanly calm and courtesy, he was unsympathetic to the more confrontational style which increasingly became the norm. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality.
This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest.
GS was what does "the term confront" mean relative to "confronting persons" seeking to access a building without authorization or what does confront mean in the context of dealing with "physical confrontations. Green Mountain Daily - Front Page
They confronted the prisoner with his accusers.
I thought it wise not to engage in any further confrontation with the gentleman on the issue.
These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense.
Britain is likely to stitch together some sort of political deal to avoid a confrontation.
John opened the door to be confronted by two youths who threw a blazing firework at him.
Seriously, I think services like this are great for dealing with awkward situations in a harmless, non-confrontational way.
The scene that confronted us appeared tranquil: a flock of vultures perched, on watch, up in a clump of trees overlooking a large herd of waterbuck browsing on the near bank.
For the future of the faith, it is this meeting - not a confrontation but a meeting - between faith and laicity, which has a central point in Spanish culture. Chron.com Chronicle
One extreme is to take your time to plan, be stealthy and sneak around in the dark to avoid all confrontation.
Expecting the idiosyncratic, the bizarre, possibly the androgyne, they were disconcerted when confronted with what THE IMAGE OF LAURA
But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt.
Once he actually confronts her, his erotic drive is to break her down and force her to tell by persistent cross-questioning.
His liking for non-confrontational politics looks like a clever sham, a neat way to duck under our perceptions.
Similar difficulties confront historians who are primarily concerned with written evidence.
Faced with the French media on the eve of yesterday's opening time trial, Armstrong was more confrontational.
Murray also can laugh at himself, as was revealed in his Comic Relief appearance last week, when he was confronted by a snotty-nosed kid who told him: Yeah, you're my fourth favourite tennis player. Britain's Andy Murray looking like the Hamlet of tennis after latest loss | Kevin Mitchell
She said her husband, a rail clerk, went outside to confront the louts but they just taunted him and started smashing his car.
Instead, we are concerned with certain existential realities that confront us, and which will continue to confront us.
The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power.
Its quartet of couples confronted and intrigued the audience by way of ballet's athleticism and expressivity. With Little to Cheer Besides Balanchine
There are several scenes which involve abrasive personal confrontation, which I felt were irrelevant, but presumably were introduced for fear of the film becoming cloying.
Once again, I chose to confront the issue head-on.
She realised that now, confronted with this vast expanse of lovely, beautiful space.
In its confrontation with heresiarchs, the Church learned to read the Scriptures in a way that should still inform us today.
We Westerners love confronting the inadequacy of our rationalism and Amagatu capitalises on that, giving us also polished performances and exquisite stagecraft to hold our attention when our metaphysical appreciation wanes.
Therefore psychologists treat a man suffering from mythomania by confronting him with facts.
It was just the latest in a long arc of confrontations between the consanguine of the South Pacific mote, and floating weeds that forever wash onto these shores. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II)
I thought I would remain calm, but when I was confronted with/by the TV camera, I became very nervous.
That will involve significant change from the separation, suspicion, and even outright confrontation that have existed for decades.
When the group almost split over the issue of whether to focus on confrontational action or voter registration, she healed the breach by saying it should work on both.
The question of sanctity versus profanity is one which every Pagan, Wiccan, or Witch confronts and comes to terms with at some point on their spiritual path.
When he was confronted, he denied that smoking had taken place.
This book reveals the choices and dilemmas that confront elite public research universities.
Both had blamed each other for the crash and shirtfronted one another in a confrontation seen by the national TV audience watching the event.
The problem which the Phillips-Lipsey model then had to confront was one of measurability: not a directly observable magnitude.
Is there a learning task of equivalent difficulty with which adults at an advanced level of development are confronted?
The final week of the election campaign saw long debates over the proposals into a traditional left-right confrontation.
Then there was an ugly confrontation between members of the battalion's Alpha and Charlie batteries -- the term artillery units use instead of "companies" -- that threatened to turn into a brawl involving three dozen soldiers, and required the base police to intervene. Archive 2004-09-01
“The crucial test for the solution of all these intricate problems which confront and challenge our ingenuity is the sheer and forceful application of those immutable laws which down the corridor of time have always guided the hand of man, groping as it were for some faint beacon of light for his hopes and aspirations.” McCain and Obama Court Hispanic Voters - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Never having been confronted with this question before, the usually voluble scientist answers evasively, and it temporarily sinks her mission as Earth's representative to other worlds.
After confronting mum and dad, I have been able to get on with my life but I still bare the emotional scars and visual torments of dreams and visions.
China has recently revived maritime territorial claims that had been left dormant, and confronted the navies of other nations to assert those claims. Times, Sunday Times
The court heard that there had been two earlier violent incidents before the fatal confrontation.
As Bethany's warnings continue to prove accurate beyond fluke and she begins to offer scientifically precise hints of a final, world-altering cataclysm, Gabrielle is confronted with a series of devastating choices in a world in which belief has become as precious - and as murderousas life itself. The Rapture by Liz Jensen: Book summary
In many parts of the world it often leads to violent confrontation and much bloodshed.
While these members of the French peace movement confronted the same types of emotions that fueled Hugo's wrath, many turned away from the pessimism, chauvinism, and revanchism that characterized his response.
I don't think any national figure in America has the courage or the faculties to confront this issue head-on.
She's a silly bint for being so confrontational and not being able to back it up though.
This sweetheart deal has been used to try to avoid confrontation.
Their utility functions may remain unchanged, but the income constraints which now confront them have altered.
She had barely escaped disinheritance but that didn't stop her from confronting her father or taunting him about her lifestyle.
The obvious lesson to be gained from this episopde is to instantly report any confrontations to the police immediately too ensure that your "storey" is to be on record first. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
The woman was sometimes caught or confronted on properties or in her victim's homes but always made a getaway, once through a hole in a hedge and on another occasion by leaping a fence.
Suddenly, and as it were without warning, we are confronted by a fierce and warlike nation, for whom it is a paramount moral obligation to refrain from the participatory heathen cults by which they were surrounded on all sides; for whom moreover precisely that moral obligation is conceived as the very foundation of the race, the very marrow of its being. Sources of Theology in Job « Unknowing
Civil execution reconciliation system is used to achieve the privacy autonomy, lower costs, as well as to ease the confrontation between the parties and "the difficulty in enforcement procedure".
A soldier often has to confront danger.
Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
She had a series of heated confrontation with her parents over homework.
They no longer have any sense of working class solidarity, whereby communities would work together to confront common problems (such as the Depression).
The first time he is confronted with the sheer bulk of the super size meal, Spurlock is genuinely amazed.
The whole volume constitutes an effort to resolve a problem that must confront anyone who finds the world a deeply affecting yet intangible chimera.
The woman on the left (who looks a bit like Téa Leoni, I think) is obviously being confronted with some entitled upstart (look at that nose in the air!) and is on the point of delivering a well-deserved set-down. August 2007
The camera was designed to confront the world in terms of traditional perspective views, with a painter's relation of horizontals and verticals.

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