Sentence examples for a reckoning between from inspiring English sources

An event like the Arizona shootings might also force a reckoning between the right and reality.

As his country, Tunisia, heads toward the first elections after the Arab revolts on Sunday, Mr. Ghannouchi, a renowned Islamic thinker, faces a reckoning between his principles and intentions.

They hoped not just to disrupt but to stop the process and force a reckoning between the antiseptic atmosphere of the auction and the grim consequences of the eviction.

And for the world, there must be a reckoning between physics and business as usual.

The British prime minister, Tony Blair, who has argued repeatedly that Britain is well placed to "bridge" the Atlantic, told a Downing Street news conference last week that there would need to be a postwar "reckoning" between the United States and Europe and among the bickering nations of Europe itself.

Ahead of his trip this week to Camp David to meet George Bush for a war-and-peace summit, and to New York to confer with Kofi Annan at the United Nations, Britain's Tony Blair ruefully acknowledged that once the war in Iraq had ended, there would need to be a "reckoning" in relations between America and Europe.

(Most of us, anyway. Some who walk among us don't know or care. Fools!) There was a kind of reckoning between the human world and the C.G.I. one; there was a tragedy that let us in on a deeper tragedy we'd been witnessing for years without knowing it; and there was, throughout, something we don't see enough of: people standing up for each other.

"There is, at the end of this, going to have to be a discussion and, indeed, a reckoning about the relations between America and Europe," said Mr. Blair, who as the United States' principal ally is at the center of trans-Atlantic tensions over a war that is unpopular on the Continent.

A tenderly observed day of reckoning between two actors who have lived together for 40 years but never married, the play begins with the threat of separation, as Lila confronts Daniel Jack Davidsonn) about his serial infidelities.

Perhaps this has all been a ruse, a build-up to some huge final reckoning between father and son, giving the lie once and for all to Walt's idea that he had been providing for his family.

The chapter in "A Spy Among Friends" on the final reckoning between Elliott and Philby is Macintyre at his best.