Sentence examples for attempt to face from inspiring English sources

Although this has been criticised in Jakarta, it may have helped Mr Wahid in his attempt to face down the military.

A Country Too Far is part of a literary tradition in which authors attempt to face the social context in which they live.

It was a bold attempt to face down economists and City analysts who argue that Carney is largely impotent as the aftershocks of the 2008 crash continue to play themselves out.

That said, the book "Red Sorghum" is Mo Yan's attempt to face memory in the first person; the movie is an adaptation of it, which its director nonetheless keeps at arm's length — Zhang Yimou isn't personally implicated in the telling of the story.

In a song titled "White Privilege," he examined the tensions of his life as a white rapper: "Where's my place in a music that's been taken by my race / Culturally appropriated by the white face?" It was an honest, questing attempt to face the guilt of the gentrifier, wary of what he embodies yet pleased with the new view.

Based on these fundamental considerations inspired by Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory, we now attempt to face the threefold objection against a spiritual traditions-based approach to practical wisdom in management.

There is no doubt that the Catalan result will blight Mr Aznar's attempts to face down demands from Spain's devolved regions for still more autonomy.

All he knows of Argentina's capital is "tango, the disappeared, Maradona", but there's much more lurking as the country makes torpid attempts to face its past.

But instead of attempting to face such issues, one by one, and suggest in detail how change could be achieved, Mr Howard and writers like him find it easier to rail against the system as a whole.

The drama is largely internal: Gilbert learns, after a performance, that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident, and he attempts to face his changed circumstances — as well as his own aging.

The movie just lives inside that stunned, astonished 90 minutes of horror between one epoch and the next - and there is, to my mind, an overwhelming dramatic justification for simply attempting to face, directly, the terrible moment itself.