Sentence examples for confronted like from inspiring English sources

In this sense, the analogy drawn last year that Saddam had to be confronted like Hitler was truer than might have been supposed.

"When it's confronted like that," Mr. Widmann said, "I think the audience and the performers have the ability to hear the dissonances of Mozart in a different way, the open dissonances".

Gates may well have been unjust — we don't know that Crowley is a racist — but the professor was provoked by being confronted like a suspect in the privacy of his own home.

In gathering information on 137 of them over the past four months — one of the most extensive such efforts to date — The New York Times found that many faced the same challenges Mr. Deskovic has confronted, like making a living, reconnecting with relatives and seeking financial recompense for his lost years.

"Do you understand me?" Jessica hesitates, bewildered at being confronted like this.

Maybe you spend your commute or exercise time thinking through any emotionally charged situations you confronted, like a contentious meeting or an employee performance issue.

Still, the attacks posed a test for the authorities in the Philippines and in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, as they confront like-minded extremists who support the creation of an Islamic state in Southeast Asia.

Instead he forces us to confront, like Caliban, our faces in the mirror.

It simply outlined a complicated set of issues Mr. Bush must confront, like terrorism, or that he wanted to put forward, like Social Security reform, Mr. Bartlett said.

And how does it compare with the other, seemingly incessant health scares we confront, like panic over lead in synthetic athletic turf or Bisphenol A in dental sealants?

But I am a reporter with a family history written in printer's ink across three generations confronting, like so many of my colleagues, a world that is sliding away.