Sentence examples for confronting devastating from inspiring English sources

And while one part of the globe suffers from lack of water, others, in Asia and central Europe, have been confronting devastating floods in the past few weeks.The extent to which global warming, or climate change, is responsible for these latest natural disasters continues to be the subject of scientific argument.

The Governor is wisely advising us to "stay true to our basic principles" and to "confront" devastating climate change.

In this moving meditation on life and afterlife, a northern Michigan family confronts devastating illness and death.

More importantly, we share with them the common goal of rigorously and relentlessly seeking answers to critically important research questions as we confront the devastating dual AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics.

Ruba Nadda, Canada (World Premiere) One afternoon, on a typical day at work, Adib is confronted with devastating news: His eldest daughter, Muna, has gone missing in Damascus.

You couldn't have gone through anything more seemingly scary, painful, devastating, confronting death and yet there was this tremendous gift of transformation and healing as a result.

The agency had to confront its own devastating failure earlier this year when a strike in Pakistan killed two Western civilians who had been taken hostage by al-Qaeda.

Congressional Republicans as well as law enforcement and physicians' groups said the president's announcement was a crucial first step in building awareness about the opioid crisis and confronting its causes and devastating effects.

A4 Access to AIDS Drugs The international pharmaceutical companies that are challenging a South African law aimed at easing access to AIDS drugs will, as the case opens this week in Johannesburg, confront a nation devastated by H.I.V. and a world increasingly impatient with industry pledges to help its poorest victims.

The international pharmaceutical companies challenging a South African law aimed at easing access to AIDS drugs will, as the case opens this week, confront a nation devastated by H.I.V. and a world increasingly impatient with industry pledges to help its poorest victims.

Epidemic disease, colonial pressures on tribal lands and sovereignty, and devastating outright violence confronted the Narragansetts and other Eastern Algonquian peoples of southern New England and Long Island Sound.