But here we were, confronted with the need to tell them that yes, sometimes girls fall in love with girls.
Rationality takes a back seat when politicians are confronted with the need to stand up to radio shock jocks.
Getting back to The Very Picky Customer, I had a moment when, confronted with the need to explain one of those trade-offs, I found myself tongue-tied.
Painters were thus confronted with the need to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art that would better reflect the changed social, material, and intellectual conditions of emerging modern life.
And he will take over a job for which consensus is good but only when measured against results, and in which he will be confronted with the need to make hard and sometimes quick decisions.
Suddenly, Mr. Bush is confronted with the need to prove to Americans that there is an eventual way out, even at a moment when the Pentagon is considering contingency plans for bolstering the force.
The crying and anxiety that eight-month-olds display when confronted with the need to cross the deep side are the result of their ability to perceive depth but also, and more importantly, their ability to recognize the discrepancy of sitting on a solid surface while nevertheless seeing the visual bottom some distance below.
The Protestant Reformers, however, were confronted with the need to define and make legitimate their views over against the established system, and thus issued comprehensive manifestos that, much more than the early creeds, were not only catalogues of beliefs but also interpretations and apologies for them.
Despite recent progress in information technology, health care institutions are constantly confronted with the need to adapt to the resulting new processes of information management and use.
