Sentence examples for confront failings from inspiring English sources

There is a fundamental resistance to confront failings.

White employers are so terrified of being called racists that they won't confront failing black employees, and instead hide blacks away in unchallenging jobs.

For nations to confront their failings is arduous.

The new legislation is likely to be closely watched by other states, which confront similar failings.

The future belongs to the left, but to be successful, it must confront its failings and reconnect with people.

For middle age to be genuinely transformative we need to change the script – scrutinise our mistakes, admit grief and regret, confront personal failings.

It forces us to confront our failings before they become fatal.

Learning how to honestly confront the failings of the care that we provide and developing the commitment to work to make systems and processes of care higher in quality and more reliable becomes an essential element in the professional development of learners and prepares them to address the constitutive problems of healthcare.

R. Crumb and Pete Bagge often star in their own comics, but they are confronting personal failings as much as the failings of the world around them.

Instead of confronting the failings of the last 30 years, he said, the cancer industry had simply egged the public on with false promises and sketchy clinical trials.

He is unrepentant: "You knew what I was when you married me!" Prowling around the house like a caged beast, Mr Depardieu confronts his failings—"Wise men are comforted by their limitations"—and emerges as sorrowful, pathetic, almost vulnerable.Yet an imposing performance by Mr Depardieu is not quite enough to rescue this film.