Sentence examples for confront the ideas from inspiring English sources

Dr Annan said bets like the one he made with the Russian sceptics are one way to confront the ideas.

Moving forward, I wish Charlie Hebdo would lean more toward that sort of thing but more than that, I hope they don't give a shit and continue to push every envelope so that somewhere, someone is inspired to confront the ideas they believe to be self-evident and maybe create something for themselves.

So I decided to confront the idea.

Nobody wants to confront the idea of their own obsolescence.

By using as much varied material as possible, usually with a "classic" at hand, the actors confront the idea of white-male greatness head-on.

As Brian restores the Strad and then helps make arrangements for its sale, the two are forced to confront the idea of Erica being silenced as well as her instrument.

There's an unspoken irony at play: N.Y.P.D. officers in precincts with the highest number of stops will also have to confront the idea that they are the ones being watched.

I would like to confront the idea that we, in the developed world, can just do a few clever things with wind turbines and Priuses while carrying on consuming.

I wasn't about to tell him my life story.' As he left the office and hailed a taxi amid the confusion of Twenty-sixth Street, my father had barely begun to confront the idea that he was ill.

The premise we have for the play is a woman who has to confront the idea that this contract has become another kind of marriage – and when does it end?" (By all accounts, it hasn't: now in their 80s and 90s, the two still live in the same US city, though separately, and speak to each other every day).

I don't want them to face social pressure to join in the "joke", to have to confront the idea that it is OK to laugh at Aboriginal people and that if they don't then somehow the fault lies with them and not the racists who perpetuate these stereotypes or the society that endorses it.