Sentence examples for confronted with the task from inspiring English sources

The Civil Affairs officer is confronted with the task of appointing a new mayor.

Confronted with the task of portraying the unportrayable, writers do what scientists do: they build models and reason from analogy.

But the court was confronted with the task of drawing, as this court has recognized, what are sometimes inevitably arbitrary lines.

He was promptly confronted with the task of preserving party unity over policy towards Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), when it made its 1965 unilateral declaration of independence.

But a less sanguine man, confronted with the task of promoting peace at a time when the Israelis and the Palestinians are locked in a cycle of reciprocal violence, savage even by their standards, might pronounce a verdict almost as gloomy as Sir Edward's.

Confronted with the task of writing in the Beethovenian manner, a great master like Schumann, who had created the near-perfect, totally Romantic suite Carnaval, Opus 9 (1835), was clearly out of his element: the development of his Symphony No. 1 in B Flat Major, Opus 38 (Spring; 1841), offers a prime example of the "rhythmic paralysis" that affected so many large-scale 19th-century works.

Once the amendments passed, it seemed as though the House and Senate would be confronted with the difficult task of reconciling two vastly different measures in conference.

When confronted with the daunting task of finding the next ethnic food in the alphabet, Mr. Zurita will typically do research on the Internet or ask around for suggestions in a culinary chat room.

Bush, as an insider, is supposed to know better than to be this candid, especially when he is confronted with the difficult  task of persuading a very conservative Republican primary electorate to trust him, while in full view, via the press, of the much more liberal general electorate.

Obviously, on these — and just about all other foreign policy questions — Senator McCain and his Democratic opponent will be confronted with the daunting task of appealing not only to their bases, but also to independents, who have decidedly different opinions about these issues.

Companies committed to integrating sustainability concerns into product decisions are confronted with the daunting task of assessing hundreds, or thousands, of materials and goods.