Sentence examples for confronting form from inspiring English sources

Asked about potential moves to ban the garment in parliament house, Abbott had replied that it was not the business of government to tell people what they should or shouldn't wear, however "I've said before, I find it a fairly confronting form of attire and frankly I wish it weren't worn".

The decision came a day after the prime minister, Tony Abbott, said he found the burqa to be "a fairly confronting form of attire" and he wished it was not worn, although Australia was a free country and it was "up to the citizens of Australia to decide what they should wear".

Before adjusting his position on the parliament plan, Abbott said Wednesday that he found the burka "a fairly confronting form of attire.

Mr Abbott seemed to feed this when he said recently that he found burqas a "confronting form of attire" and wished no one wore them.

The experiences of Mees's dog, trotting through a clearing that smells of porcupine, stand alongside those of a minister's wife reading her morning paper and "confronting whatever form the devil had chosen to assume overnight".

It is often very difficult, and in some cases, impossible, to provide such direct proof when confronting modern forms of copyright infringement, whether over P2P networks or otherwise; understandably, copyright infringers typically do not keep records of infringement.

And this forced me to confront a form of illiteracy I don't ordinarily acknowledge as such, raising, in turn, the question of whether this glazing over is acceptable.

And so strong is this identification that we feel slightly dislocated when, in "The Ivory Acrobat" (1988), he confronts a form of terror that is "natural" and therefore ancient and innocent: the earthquake.

Yet few solutions have emerged to confront this form of globalized pharmaceutical cybercrime.

We think it is better to confront all forms of extremism – the kind of people that support Jihad abroad, but say no Jihad here, or at least not now".

He said the police were "confronting a new form of violence, and we have to adapt to that.