The phrase "are sometimes confronted with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations where individuals or groups face challenges or difficulties intermittently.
Example: "Students are sometimes confronted with unexpected obstacles during their studies."
Alternatives: "are occasionally faced with" or "sometimes encounter".
IN WINTER AND early spring commuters on the fast train between Amsterdam and Vlissingen are sometimes confronted with the sight of emaciated and dying cattle, horses and deer, and the carcasses of earlier victims being picked over by scavengers.
While we're out improving access to textile recycling in communities across the country, we are sometimes confronted with the notion that thrift stores and charities already collect most unwanted clothing.
In the world of football, the visiting national teams are sometimes confronted with different environmental conditions: heat, cold and different relative humidities are good examples, but the most important one is the practice of football at altitude.
In the house they rent, which has been divided into three apartments, the family is sometimes confronted with drugs addicts and drunks for neighbors, she said.
We should also note that EHP is sometimes confronted with issues regarding potential research misconduct, such as plagiarism or data fabrication.
[Female no. 3, mid 20's, Region 1] Even though health care professionals felt comfortable discussing PN, they were sometimes confronted with a lack of commitment among patients towards sex partners when discussing a Ct diagnosis.
Current algorithms and computer programs make complicated analyses easier and user-friendly than ever before such that even the amateur user of the technique is sometimes confronted with the limitations of the hardware.
To take the most obvious example, the agonizing decisions surrounding euthanasia, with which loving families are sometimes confronted, are not to be equated with the twisted decisions of a mass murderer.
These overly positive representations do not do justice to the visible and invisible work that patients with diabetes have to do nor do they acknowledge the unexpected and sometimes negative readings with which the patients are sometimes confronted despite their efforts.
Even so, when surfing the Internet, we're still sometimes confronted with stress-inducing news stories that aren't compatible with the quirky and deeply entrenched biases that make us who we are.
