'An intending irrigator, acquiring a water right based on such a measure, would be almost certainly confronted with drought when his need for water was greatest.
It is not a problem unique to this city, but it is certainly confronted here more than anywhere else in the country.
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
War on the Korean peninsula is almost too horrible to contemplate, although the Clinton administration certainly confronted it when dealing with North Korea's nuclear program in the early 1990's.
This dramedy certainly confronts serious moral dilemmas and causes more than a bit of internal discomfort.
Assuming that such hope proves hollow, as it did in Janesville, the GM workers in Ontario, Michigan and Ohio almost certainly will confront a wrenching choice.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: Kagan will certainly be confronted with those comments.
So when you buy one, or go to someone's house and use theirs, you will almost certainly be confronted by an unfamiliar interface.
"The Iranians are certainly being confronted with some pretty strong evidence of a nuclear weapons program, and they are being petulant and defensive," said David Albright, a former weapons inspector who now runs the Institute for Science and International Security.
Health problems that force retirement are another possible factor, and the boomer generation certainly is confronting problems that could prevent many from working: Rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are rising, for example.
