Sentence examples for attempts to face from inspiring English sources

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.

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 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.

"In taking my freedom, I can from now on approach peace in eternity in the company of my wife who was killed by the prosecution case [a reference to his wife's sudden death during the original trial]." Papon's flight is a setback for France's troubled attempts to face its wartime past, in which 75,000 Jews were sent to die in Germany.

The show also dwells on the children that she hasn't given birth to, and is shot through with the hauntingly pure voices of two young girls whose sweet directness is pointedly contrasted with Meow Meow's attempts to face down the world with sequins and pill-popping.

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.

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 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.

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.