She never liked to acknowledge, let alone confront, disagreeableness within her family.
These are the duckers-out from any willingness to recognise the issues let alone confront them.
The Vatican has refused to confront issues having to do with women priests, married priests, gay priests with anything but disgust or denial, let alone confront the problem of aids, or abuse, or even condoms.
The essential principle of democracy is that no single part of a vibrant democratic system - the judiciary, media, campaigners or interest groups, political parties, legislatures or local governments - can alone confront the authoritarian state.
Hulbert, of Millersville, who is awaiting trial on a murder charge, later told police that he went inside alone, confronted Schwartz about the alleged abuse and slashed and stabbed him with a sword, according to court documents.
Furthermore, Iraqi forces are not well coordinated and, long out of contact with the outside world and recent military history, would likely be hard pressed to understand what a swarming force is trying to accomplish, let alone confront it.
The battleground of the new war is not Afghanistan but here, and in his very choice of weapons our enemy has left America at a grave disadvantage, one the country has not begun to grasp, let alone confront.
The central weakness of the Court's decision, I believe, is its failure to recognize, let alone confront, the two most important issues in this case: how does one define a "charitable" organization, and to which authority in our federal system is application of that definition confided?
When a 15-year-old boy vanished from a madrasa in a village near here recently — his classmates said to go on jihad — his uncle could not afford to go look for him, let alone confront the powerful men who run the madrasa.
