Sentence examples for confront the legacy from inspiring English sources
First, he told me, he had to confront the legacy of a decades-long "state of anarchy".
As they do, they confront the legacy of their abusive childhoods and the burden of family responsibility.
Which means Basil, now a grown man who never grew up (and played by Mr. Driver as an anguished drip), will finally have to confront the legacy of the father he worships and detests.
Our unwillingness to confront the legacy of slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow leave us profoundly incapable of understanding mass incarceration, wealth/income inequality, health disparities, political disenfranchisement, and the education gap.
All have suddenly had to confront the legacy of the French World War I war hero and World War II Nazi collaborator, for whom the street is named, and the balance between the burdens of the past and the demands of living in the present.
Dominique Lévy, W1, Tue to 14 May OB If you're mixing the craft of embroidery with contemporary art – as Tokyo-born Satoru Aoyama has since studying textiles at Goldsmiths College in the late 1990s – then sooner or later you'll want to confront the legacy of Alighiero Boetti.
But he rarely, if ever, confronts the legacy of slavery and racism.
Unlike its neighbors in South America, who have confronted the legacy of military rule, Brazil has never conducted prosecutions or provided an official account of the crimes.
While employed there the character "confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever," the publisher said in a news release.
Beginning in the 1980s the Anglican Church in Canada confronted the legacy of boarding schools it had run until 1969 to promote the systematic assimilation of First Nations and Inuit children into predominantly white Canadian society.
As Obama put it, deliberately, in "Dreams from My Father," about confronting the legacy of black nationalism in Chicago, "Our sense of wholeness would have to arise from something more fine than the bloodlines we'd inherited".
