Sentence examples for confront war from inspiring English sources
Then, in office, we see them confront war in Bosnia and Kosovo, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the public's loss of confidence in the health care system and, of course, 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The centrepiece of the entrenchment of state power is a proposed change to the constitution, establishing recourse to a "civil state of emergency" in addition to powers adopted in 1955 during the Algerian war of independence, in order – says François Hollande – to confront "war of another type", as presented by jihadi terrorism.
A three-month trial exposed how the ring systematically abducted, enslaved, and murdered women between at least 2009 and 2011, even as thousands of federal police and soldiers were deployed to the Mexican city to confront warring drug cartels.
Civilians far from the front confronted war's realities in a manner and with an emotional force that had never before been imagined.
The United Nations confronts war, famine, disease, climate change and much else, but perhaps the greatest and most persistent challenge the organisation has faced is the tendency of its member states to deny it the leadership its work requires.
Along the way, Taran and his memorable companions confront villains, war, and personal dilemmas.
We now confront a war without end, with our privacy and sense of safety permanently compromised.
It took France decades to confront its war guilt properly, and the process was messy.
Mao himself reportedly authored an article cryptically condemning Khrushchev's détente policy as vile revisionism and reiterating Chinese willingness to confront nuclear war.
It feared that forcing the Japanese to confront their war crimes and reject the beloved emperor could send them into the Soviets' arms.
In our modern world, we are fortunate that there is one great superpower, dominant militarily and strong economically, which no other country or alliance of countries at present feels inclined to confront in war.
