Sentence examples for as faced with from inspiring English sources

I would summarize the almost 12,000-word VA Office of Inspector General's interim report as: "Faced with the seemingly unsolvable problem of thousands more patients than primary care appointments, demoralized employees gave up trying, and bad employees fudged facts.

Policymakers regularly see themselves as faced with a choice between full-scale military intervention and doing nothing beyond rhetorical condemnation, a recipe for paralysis.

Both the researchers and the media portrayed the students as faced with a binary choice: either sit and think or shock yourself.

We had just under 1,000 vacancies in the stores, as faced with uncertainty, people had gone to get a job somewhere else".

In his dialogue Crito, Plato fictionally cast his teacher, Socrates, imprisoned and sentenced to death (for impiety and corrupting the young), as faced with a choice between accepting the death penalty and escaping, thereby disobeying the law.

These requirements have, the report says, "arguably contributed to a relative 'arms race' as, faced with increasing competition and an ever increasing need to stand out, aspirant bankers engage in increasingly focused efforts to build their CV".

Lauren battles against her body clock in her desire for children, while their marriage goes as limp as Tom, faced with the battery of thermometers and calendars.

As if, faced with them, the mere savings were as vulgar as they in fact were.

As companies faced with ballooning deficits stop offering pensions, individuals have to save more themselves.

Mr. Pollack watched as Dovelin Printing, faced with a quadrupling rent, left the building.

And the same can be said about other societies, such as ours, faced with Islamist violence.