"When you're about winning, you have to confront what loses, even if it's not pretty".
It was not clear whether the international pressure would help break the deadlock between the two rival presidents — a standoff that is emerging as something of an international test case in confronting a losing incumbent who refuses to step down.
The remarkable thing about the Lakers' streak, which occurred during the first half of a championship season, was that it began immediately after Elgin Baylor, one of the game's greats, retired when confronted with losing his starting position to Jim McMillian.
Another 3.5 million homeowners are in the foreclosure process or are so behind in their mortgage payments that they soon will be confronted with losing their homes.
In his long history of legal calamity, David Irving has confronted and lost to courtroom adversaries from the publisher Penguin, to a British Second World War convoy commander, to the Austrian state.
Iran does not want to confront America and lose.
But as I confront it, it loses power over me.
Her victory was seemingly the exception to a disturbing trend: generally those who obfuscated advanced while politicians willing to confront pressing problems lost.
Mr. Sondheim's are Broadway troupers, veterans of those fantastical Ziegfeldesque revues that wowed audiences between the two world wars, meeting for the last time in 1971 to celebrate lost theater glory and to confront the consequences of lost youth.
For instance, the birth of her son that sees her connect and engage at last ("in this life with Theo, there was calm") forces her to simultaneously confront the fear of losing him.
