Sentence examples for confronting for the first from inspiring English sources

Complicating matters at airports are the latest liquid and gel carry-on rules, which some holiday travelers will be confronting for the first time.

Mr. Curtis's despair has a perennial appeal to sensitive teenagers confronting for the first time the possibility that life is meaningless.

These days, when the court gets into trouble with the public, it's often on an issue it's confronting for the first time.

In contrast to the deference the president enjoyed in his first six years in office, he is confronting for the first time a combination of reinvigorated Democrats and rebellious Republicans.

Hers was hardly an unlikely response from a theatergoer confronting for the first time — or for that matter the third or fourth or fifth — Arthur Miller's often harrowing portrait of a man drowning in his own delusions.

"His charm and his rudeness are fascinating," says Everett, who then, for those who still aren't getting it, dresses up in Byronic costume to ponder: "Where did the real Byron end and the poseur begin?" Onscreen, Everett often looks startled, as if confronting, for the first time, the endless inadequacy of what's passing before him.

Arriving at the studios, he was confronted for the first time by a wall of paparazzi.

This allowed them to confront for the first time an important prediction of inflation theory.

Yet, as Oz said of the book, "Many Israelis confronted for the first time, in a deep way, the reality of the occupation".

In this artificial capturing of local color, he pretends to be confronted for the first time with this prospect of being on camera.

As the people of Gaza emerged from hiding on Sunday, they confronted, for the first time, the full, sometimes breathtaking extent of the destruction around them wrought by the Israeli military.