Sentence examples for confronted the idea from inspiring English sources
Fallow factory sites were recast as places for housing or office towers as the city confronted the idea that it was no longer a manufacturing center.
"If I am prime minister," he said throughout, confronting the idea that the notion scares the voters.
Meanwhile, the Penn State community found itself confronting the idea that it had placed the interests of its football team above concern for children at risk.
By using as much varied material as possible, usually with a "classic" at hand, the actors confront the idea of white-male greatness head-on.
So it is depressing to find ourselves confronting the idea again, just a few weeks later, thanks to the allegedly left-of-centre thinktank Demos.
As Brian restores the Strad and then helps make arrangements for its sale, the two are forced to confront the idea of Erica being silenced as well as her instrument.
There's an unspoken irony at play: N.Y.P.D. officers in precincts with the highest number of stops will also have to confront the idea that they are the ones being watched.
I would like to confront the idea that we, in the developed world, can just do a few clever things with wind turbines and Priuses while carrying on consuming.
I wasn't about to tell him my life story.' As he left the office and hailed a taxi amid the confusion of Twenty-sixth Street, my father had barely begun to confront the idea that he was ill.
