Sentence examples for confronted on the from inspiring English sources
Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station.
And when confronted on the View, Beck's first instinct -- the correct one -- was to apologize.
"Yet only by being confronted on the ground can Isil be beaten, as the Kurds and the Russians have shown".
Indeed, the Iowa meeting where Mrs. Clinton was confronted on the Iran vote was notable precisely because it was so unusual.
While trying to leave the house and threatening to alert the British government, she was confronted on the stairs by her father, it was claimed.
Many of the commuters he met looked uneasy — a natural reaction, perhaps, when confronted on the subway by a smiling man in a suit with an outstretched hand.
Instead of playing politics, Philadelphia is confronting on-the-ground reality, fighting to get more food stamps to the poor.
"Down, down into the midst of ordinary things the finger fell making the moment solemn," Woolf wrote of one of the many existential shivers that Clarissa confronts on the June day chronicled in "Mrs. Dalloway".
Drug seizures, domestic violence, arson and methamphetamine addictions are all part of what they confront on the job.
By going AWOL in London in 1933, Roosevelt emboldened the man whose armed forces he would have to confront on the beaches of Normandy a decade later.
I don't agree that it's a subject most people would rather not confront — on the contrary, it seems to me a subject that people are extremely eager to confront in the form of fantasy and drama.
