Sentence examples for confront an attack from inspiring English sources

Although this could end up playing to Mr. Bush's advantage by dividing his opposition, it places him in the immediate position of having to confront an attack from two sides of the political spectrum.

Although the cadets were not the first in a generation to graduate at a time of war -- in the spring of 1999, the United States was bombing Kosovo -- they were the first since Pearl Harbor to have confronted an attack on American soil.

It was the second time in two days that the country's security forces had confronted an attack on the streets: on Monday a man described by authorities as having been radicalised ran down a soldier with his car in Quebec.

In the 1960s this strategy gave the United States the ability to confront a Soviet attack in Europe, a Chinese attack somewhere in Asia, and a minor conflict in Cuba.

They reasoned that the then established "Singapore strategy", which called for a fleet to be formed in Britain to be dispatched to confront a Japanese attack was inherently risky due to the long delay.

President Zardari immediately contacted the country's military leadership and ordered its air force to be put on high alert to confront a possible Indian attack.

Elite forces from the US and UK are in Afghanistan's Helmand province to help confront a major Taliban attack.

A black police chief who had worked diligently to improve community relations, and reduce the use of force, now had to confront a racially motivated attack by a young black man against his officers.

They both stood up to confront a man verbally attacking two girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab.

It is that the practitioner should not attack, unless first confronted by an attack.

U.S. and Russian diplomats exchanged bitter recriminations Monday in an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, which met to confront a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel stronghold in Syria that killed at least 48 people near Damascus.