Sentence examples for confronted state from inspiring English sources

This racial disparity confronted state officials with their most delicate task, of alliance building inside the city before they could let the hammer fall.

In Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, adherents of the millennial Watch Tower sect violently confronted state authority, but among the rural Shona and Kongo in Angola the millenarian churches were not confrontational.

"This is a tough choice that balances the need to decrease the budget deficit with the tough fiscal conditions confronting state and local governments," the proposal said.

About 50 children dropped lines in Calumet Park and caught roughly 1,800 gobies, Mr. Vadas said, confronting state natural resources officials with the extent of the problem.

The state is the latest to see teachers leave schools en masse to confront state lawmakers, hoping to reverse years of budget cuts.

Mr. Pagliocco at Fidelity says he's not trying to "sugar coat" the seriousness of the deficit issues confronting state and local governments, but he says he does not expect inordinate trouble.

And this weekend the husband of the dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two weeks ago.

Not only has he seen his firm's profits for the year plunge, he must also confront state and federal investigations into this summer's collapse of two hedge funds that invested in subprime mortgages and lost $1.5 billion in investor funds.

Addressing the plenary of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Manama, May will say she is realistic about the threat Iran poses in the Gulf and the wider region, and prepared to "confront state actors whose influence fuels instability".

By means of CM, CBIs can confront state actors and begin to regulate issues and create space for social initiatives by decentralizing regulation and targeting place-oriented goals (Lemos and Agrawal 2006; Collier et al. 2009).

Cabañas was killed for confronting state forces blamed for injustices and violence against Guerrero's poor.