Sentence examples for before being faced with from inspiring English sources

On Channel 7's The X Factor you can see it on the contestants' faces: the belief they can sing, their eyes clouded by a self-deluding pestilential mist — known as the Fog of Cowell — before being faced with reality by judge Redfoo and company that they sound worse than a recently harpooned whale gurgling its last notes on an outcrop of sharp rocks.

I have gone back to this idea since, because I feel it was a clue to my eventual burden, this set of random data points by which I simply moved across some screen before being faced with a connivance that I couldn't understand, though it seemed to belong to me.

Tom Schonberg, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas, Austin, wondered whether people's preferences could be changed before being faced with such a decision by training their brains to pay more attention to certain items.

In particular, the former Parkhead boss thought that it would be a challenge to take over a club with such a short a summer break before being faced with Champions League qualifiers.

Two years later, he claimed fourth in the Formula 3 Euro Series before being faced with a major decision to make when Imperial College in London offered him a place on their aeronautical engineering course, which would require him to quit racing.

We can only evade objective reality for so long before being faced with one of two choices: either retreat into the reflection in the mirror and go mad, or look outside of ourselves and reestablish a healing connection with humanity and the larger world.

The 70-year-old Ames, who has suffered a mild stroke and is still mourning the death of his son two years before, is faced with the unhappy task of letting one member of his small staff go.

In May 2008, University of East Anglia climate scientist Phil Jones, who had been a lead IPCC author the year before, was faced with a U.K. Information Act request for correspondence related to the IPCC report.

Or, even worse, eating a large breakfast in a hurry before hitting the gym and, in turn, being faced with the dreaded side cramp.

"The regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions, and as long as they shirk their responsibilities, this pressure will not relent".

"It is now only a matter of time before we are faced with the deepest and most prolonged cuts in public expenditure that anyone can remember".