Sentence examples for almost confronted from inspiring English sources

4. American consumers almost confronted the fact that overseas workers often make our goods in grim conditions, of the sort that — you've seen the photos — result in the need for employers to erect suicide nets.

Amy almost confronts Sheldon about his annoying personality, and though she doesn't, we can see that she so badly wants to.

The ship was almost constantly confronted by aggressively hostile aliens, most commonly the militaristic Romulans and Klingons.

Almost everyone confronted with the choice expresses the wish to die among familiar surroundings.

He was almost immediately confronted by teams of local and federal law enforcement officers, who ended the potential threat by shooting him in the knee.

He was elected pope on Feb. 2, 1831, and was almost immediately confronted by a popular revolt in the Papal States, which he suppressed with the aid of the Austrians.

His rule was both inefficient and severely repressive, and he was almost immediately confronted with opposition from constitutionalist forces led by Venustiano Carranza, Álvaro Obregón, Pancho Villa, and Emiliano Zapata.

For the three and a half centuries of the modern international era, great powers have almost always confronted rivals determined to defeat them and replace the global order they worked to bring about.

Instead, the Crimean Tatars were almost immediately confronted by full-bore repression.

Mr. Bush is already facing skepticism within his own party over the troop buildup, and will almost certainly confront repeated attempts by Democrats to force an end to the war.

As an internist and primary care physician, I almost never confront the immediate aftermath of a shooting.