Sentence examples for confront its responsibilities from inspiring English sources

I am mystified as to why it has taken a big, powerful company this long to confront its responsibilities.

If this proves true, Washington may one day look back and ask why it accepted rosy budgetary projections and did not confront its responsibility to debate and set priorities.

In the end, each region of the globe might have to confront its own destiny and embrace its own responsibility.

It would directly confront its political and administrative structure.

Protests in Azerbaijan now confront its president, Ilham Aliyev.

Now the agency must confront its own independence.

The report, which was commissioned by the Coast Guard, found that the agency's preparedness for environmental crises had "atrophied over the past decade" as the guard confronted its expanded security responsibilities in the post-9/11 world.

They note that Germany has confronted its Nazi past and made Holocaust denial a crime, that many Germans are committed to reconciliation and acceptance of responsibility.

BERLIN — Germany is famous for confronting its Nazi past.

Southeast Asia is confronting its worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory.

President Bush called tonight for the creation of a volunteer civil defense service and told the American people that the specter of a long war against terrorism within the United States would force the country to confront "new responsibilities, both for the government and for our people".