Sentence examples for confronted issues from inspiring English sources

She not only wrote her own songs, she wrote songs that confronted issues like drinking, cheating and birth control.

The Berenstains' ursine family most often confronted issues common to most families — the arrival of a new sibling, getting homesick at summer camp, the etiquette of trick-or-treating.

He confronted issues from the Irish Troubles to both Iraq wars in works that dropped the cool mask for outright engagement, making him even more of a meaty and serious proposition.

The comedy may have generated fewer hearty laughs this season as its cast confronted issues like unwanted pregnancy and cancer, but the more serious direction expanded the audience, said its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Patterson, whose previous work has confronted issues of gender, race, and class (her project "Dead Treez," which was recently on display at the Museum of Arts and Design, includes a complex meditation on Jamaican dance-hall culture), told me that the work was inspired by a recent increase in child murders in her home town of Kingston, Jamaica.

Some inland areas voted overwhelmingly against Brown four years ago, and Brown confronted issues that could pose a problem for him there.

"There were also a lot of confronting issues about drug usage, domestic violence, everything else that was in there, but what we need is supporting agencies," Bali said.

"To confront issues that make us uncomfortable".

Hollywood is confronting issues like these with greater regularity.

But her friends' talk about infidelity soon forces her to confront issues in her own marriage.

The process forces people to confront issues that might otherwise fester.