The phrase "and confronting this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of facing or dealing with a particular issue or challenge.
Example: "We must take action by acknowledging our mistakes and confronting this situation head-on."
Alternatives: "and addressing this" or "and facing this".
My curiosity forced me to get up and confront this total stranger.
If it takes an act of comedy to force us to stand up and confront this tragedy that passes for democracy, then so be it.
"Some would say, 'The last thing I want to do is to sit in the theater and confront this stuff,' " Mr. Byrne continued.
Miliband will claim mental health is not just an issue for the health service, saying it means bringing together everyone in Britain to acknowledge, understand and confront this national challenge.
One of the things that I've done over the past three decades as an environmental advocate is to constantly go around and confront this argument that an investment in our environment is a diminishment of our nation's wealth.
On April 3 2013, she emailed about the retrial: It was really distressing and incomprehensible news, but I've lurched myself over the emotional hump and now I'm just trying to think of what's the best, most intelligent way to move forward and confront this.
We don't need to racially profile individuals who look like these armed militiamen (white men with bushy beards and beer bellies), but it's time for mainstream politicians to at least acknowledge and confront this dangerous threat within our borders.
"They will be people who are going to be supported by the rest of us but from the community, able to talk to the Muslim community and confront this evil ideology, take it on and defeat it by the force of reason", he said.
We apply our framework to a creative task and confront this theoretical approach with a set of experiments.
We get so good at this that snoozing becomes a reflex action -- that is, until we wake up and confront this yucky feeling.
