Sentence examples for confronted topics from inspiring English sources

She said that when she started her show, which for the first time openly confronted topics like H.I.V./AIDS, homosexuality and workplace sexual harassment, "it was like a bomb went off".

"The Power of Equality" confronted topics concerning racial equality, prejudice and sexism.

Also, bloggers have forced mainstream media to confront topics they might otherwise ignore.

The band's twenty-eight-year-old songwriter and lead singer, Hamed Sinno, who met his fellow-bandmates eight years ago, at the American University of Beirut, is openly gay, and many of the band's songs confront topics of gender equality and L.G.B.T. rights.

It's what motivated me to confront topics of racism, and moving forward, I've often wondered how he felt about taking on that responsibility.

After his death, Fortuyn's impact remained, as more and more politicians sought to gain political mileage by directly confronting topics such as a ban on immigration that were, from a politically correct point of view, considered unmentionable in the Netherlands until Fortuyn came on the scene and upended the Dutch tradition of consensus politics with an anti-immigration stance.

The bias is especially strong when we're confronted with topics that affect us or our group identity directly — something that ideological debates often do.

"This is the last place a parent would expect their children to be confronted with topics that are too difficult for them to understand.

President Obama in his speech on Wednesday confronted a topic that is harder to address seriously in public than sex or flatulence: America needs higher taxes.

But it was not until he forcefully confronted the topic of hateful e-mail — some from Fox's own viewers — that he drew fire over his approach.

Sometimes this means confronting controversial topics, but Cameron insists it's important not to duck these conversations.