Sentence examples for confrontation past from inspiring English sources

The debt ceiling "deal" might postpone the next budget confrontation past the 2012 elections, but it will shred social programs that serve working people and are vital to key Democratic constituencies, while tearing apart the broader social contract between the government and its citizens.

The plot line centered on Urania Cabral is described by Sturrock as being an emotional centre that focuses the novel, and Wood agrees that her confrontations with past demons hold the readers attention.

Yet the governor's capacity to control a freewheeling crisis remained tenuous, as people threw rocks and bottles and police in riot gear braced for confrontations past a 10 p.m. emergency curfew.

"Turkey has to confront the past, but before this confrontation can happen, people must know who they are confronting.

"The Walking" is a deliberate, nakedly passionate confrontation with her past.

For Shmuel Shalem, much as for Mr. Domenig, the museum is a confrontation with his past.

Rather it is a work that offers us a conversation – and sometimes a confrontation – between the past and the present.

In a moment of confrontation with the past, the scientist sardonically thanks a colleague who unrepentantly admits his involvement in experiments on concentration-camp prisoners.

For Mr. Reich-Ranicki, the memoir played down the persecution of the Jews; for Mr. Walser, it was a painful confrontation with the past.

A local man had told her about a past confrontation between the two sides in which many had likely carried firearms.

American attention had drifted from the India-Pakistan confrontation in the past few quiet months, especially with the crisis in the Middle East, but has begun to come back.