Sentence examples for across confronted from inspiring English sources

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Crowds were massing near the curb, waiting to cross Fifth Avenue, then sallying forth as the light changed only to pull up short halfway across, confronted by an oncoming wall of more people.

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These parties – the Republicans in the US, the Tories in the UK, and others across continental Europe – confronted an internal revolt against their own leaders.

As local governments across New York confront perilous balance sheets, the new budget would leave Mr. Cuomo and the Legislature with a projected gap of about $950 million to address next year — a small amount by Albany standards.

After Poyet was sent to the stand by referee Mike Dean, the Uruguayan walked across to confront Bruce.

For I will consider my Cat Cherie whose tail switches irritably across these keys when confronted with prose found wanting.

States across the country are confronted with significant budget problems, as questions about the economy, and the housing crisis in particular, continue to throw a shadow upon statehouses.

Such gentle talk was heard less elsewhere, as governments confronted demonstrators across Europe, with unions turning the day into one of continent-wide protest.Mr Zapatero had sweetened the pill by announcing a tax increase for the rich in 2011.

For 50 years he posed friends, neighbours, models, and family members in his studio, often as if strewn casually across dilapidated furniture, and confronted their nude flesh with both keen interest and a kind of clinical impassiveness.

Police and heavily armed soldiers confronted protesters across burning barricades, and the district headquarters of Kabila's political party was set on fire by a crowd, prompting a barrage of teargas.

But the crisis across the border has confronted Egypt's longtime president, Hosni Mubarak, with a difficult political situation — needing to show solidarity with the Palestinians under attack even as he refuses to open the border between Egypt and Gaza to anything but carefully monitored humanitarian missions, like the 30 ambulances this reporter saw going toward Gaza on Tuesday.

Occupy protestors across the country were increasingly confronted by police in military style garb and affect.

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