Sentence examples for an ability to confront from inspiring English sources

"He took almost everyone by surprise with sound, homespun macroeconomic policies, and an ability to confront US political pressure without immediate dramatic adverse consequences".

"Europe has an ability to confront challenges that is above expectations," said Mr. Trichet, citing the €440 billion, or $552 billion, safety net of debt guarantees that euro-zone states agreed to in May.

There is a willingness and an ability to confront the harsh realities of life in a way that strips away artifice and niceties and shows you what the film-maker believes to be the truth of the situation".

Several defense lawyers at Monday's hearing said they planned to file motions challenging the government's use of Mr. Gardiner's work — either because the defendants will lack an ability to confront a witness against them, a violation of the Sixth Amendment, or concerns over the possible violation of rules about hearsay evidence, when one witness quotes another.

Now its leaders feel it needs to earn its status by demonstrating an ability to confront Iran and support its fellow Sunnis in the region's sectarian struggles.On top of that, its leaders feel they can no longer rely on America to the degree that once they did.

Homeland Security under secretary Christopher Krebs said that by bringing together representatives from the public and private sector, the task force has "a unique ability to confront today's challenges by sharing information across government and industry in real-time and developing the ability to better plan for the risks of the future".

With new communications tools at our disposal, we have a renewed ability to confront the myth.

An academic center demonstrating that the contemporary condition for transition to democracy is a society's ability to confront and speak its truth.

Bush may include a summit meeting with Abbas and Sharon (not in Egypt) if the Palestinian shows a willingness and ability to confront Arab terrorists.

Analysis of the text reveals how cultural values may hinder a patient's ability to confront mortality and how unique social barriers inhibit different caretakers' ability to care for a dying patient.

And yet a president's ability to confront chaos seems more central to the office now than it was, say, a half-century ago, when almost no one blamed Dwight Eisenhower for allowing quiz show scandals or Mississippi tornadoes to go unchecked.