Sentence examples for confronted for the first from inspiring English sources

Arriving at the studios, he was confronted for the first time by a wall of paparazzi.

Yet, as Oz said of the book, "Many Israelis confronted for the first time, in a deep way, the reality of the occupation".

In this artificial capturing of local color, he pretends to be confronted for the first time with this prospect of being on camera.

At a youth tournament in Ireland as a teenager, he was confronted for the first time with large-scale racism as he heard hateful chants from a group of Irish fans.

As the people of Gaza emerged from hiding on Sunday, they confronted, for the first time, the full, sometimes breathtaking extent of the destruction around them wrought by the Israeli military.

Having written that essay, having confronted for the first time this fact of my life — that I had been raised in Rhode Island, a place I never really knew, an experience I never fully came to terms with in some ways — helped me, and I thought, O.K., I would like to set this book in Rhode Island, consciously, and name it as such.

This allowed them to confront for the first time an important prediction of inflation theory.

India, accustomed to playing off American and Soviet interests, confronts for the first time what appears from here to be superpower consensus.

When our son Samuel Andrew was born last November, I was 54 years old, confronting for the first time the duties of fatherhood.

These days, when the court gets into trouble with the public, it's often on an issue it's confronting for the first time.

Complicating matters at airports are the latest liquid and gel carry-on rules, which some holiday travelers will be confronting for the first time.