Sentence examples for confronted a question from inspiring English sources

They were led by Al Gore, the former vice president who confronted a question that has, fairly or not, hovered over Mr. Obama as he struggles in his contest with Mr. McCain.

In the days that followed, my students and I confronted a question that seemed only too inevitable those days: Is all this violence inevitable?

ONLY months after they tightened the rules for the euro, Europeans are again confronting a question posed a decade ago: Is their rule book in fact a little stupid?

The gay world is confronting a question with which Jews, African-Americans, and other marginalized groups have long been familiar: the price of assimilation.

He had come far enough that he had now to confront a question: If cognition was a deeply animal business, then how far could artificial intelligence go?

The travelers stewed, caught between the trip they were sure they had completed and the sidewalk they could not reach, compelled to confront a question of ethics at, of all places, a subway turnstile.

SOONER OR LATER, most women who decide not to look for a father for their children confront a question: How are their kids going to learn about men and masculinity?

So she was ready when asked about it afterward, unflinching in confronting a question that goes to the heart of her presence in the Senate and her political and personal identity.

With Mr. Russert's unexpected passing, NBC will soon be forced to confront a question with no immediately easy answer: how to replace its lead political analyst with the presidential election less than five months away.

On the anniversary of elections that led to a period of political deadlock, setting a record at one year and counting, Belgium finds itself confronting a question worthy of a nation that produced the surrealist artist René Magritte: Does it really need a government?

Confronting Capital Punishment A number of death penalty cases were working their way toward the court, and as his second term was barely under way, Justice Blackmun had to confront a question that troubled him throughout his judicial career: how to reconcile his personal opposition to capital punishment with his vision of the role of a judge.