Sentence examples for confronted first from inspiring English sources

But in southeastern Europe, where the Ottoman sultan confronted first the Byzantine and then the Holy Roman Emperor, Muslim power prevailed, and these setbacks were seen as minor and peripheral.

"Implementing justice is not easy when you have to grab the throats of the bigwigs, and they should be confronted first," Ayatollah Jannati said from the stage in a stadium-size prayer hall at Tehran University.

Imagine a defensive wall around the village that surrounds a castle — with hackers confronted first with fortified external systems, and therefore unable to penetrate even that 10-employee vendor to gain back-door entry into their larger target.

The first time I sat down for a real Chinese banquet, on assignment to frigid Manchuria back in 1988, I found myself confronted first with a heaped serving dish of deep-fried, whole baby sparrows.

Looking at these jewel cases, you're confronted, first, with their tactile existence, and then with the mechanisms of their playback.

Scruton's talks are such fusillades of inaccuracy and outdatedness, such bombardments of fake non-news, that it's hard to know which errors to confront first.

Exuding hostility and contempt, she bluntly confronts first Julio, who threatens legal action, and then his wife, Cecilia (Mariana Carreno), with evidence of Julio's infidelities.

7 Money woes confront first generation college students.

Why didn't the Resistance ever contemplate a ground invasion (e.g., one that would force them to confront First Order snowspeeders) in the many years the Starkiller Base was being created?

But the trip stayed with me -- it was the first time I was confronted face first with true poverty.

Many of the issues confronting nineteenth-century Native Americans remain alive today: unemployment, infant mortality, suicide, crime, alcoholism, and poverty.