Han Solo and Leia Organa of "Star Wars" confront threats to the New Republic.
We must, and we will, confront threats to America before it is too late.
Mr. Romney called those cuts "arbitrary" and said they would impair the country's ability to confront threats around the world.
Formed less than a year ago to confront threats to financial stability, including bubbles, its range of "macroprudential" tools aim to influence the behaviour of the financial system.
Using a line that often turns up in his stump speech, he continued: "America must confront threats before they fully materialize.
--Capability and cofmitment of Palestinian officials and organizations to maintain order and confront threats posed by extremist and terrorist groups, clans, and criminal organizations.
And as the terrorist attack in Algeria last week illustrated, Mr. Obama continues to confront threats around the globe, both from state actors like Iran and North Korea and from Qaeda-inspired extremists seeking to exploit power vacuums in the Mideast and across Africa and Asia.
Historically, democratic societies have been slow to react to gathering threats, tending instead to wait to confront threats until they are too dangerous to ignore or until it is too late.
Democrats often say that much of what Mr. Bush is doing resembles Mr. Clinton's approach to world problems -- assembling "coalitions of the willing" to confront threats to peace in a region when they arise.
The technology giant, through its Google Ideas program, funds a handful of projects that – in its words – explore "how technology can enable people to confront threats in the face of conflict, instability and repression".
