Sentence examples for confronting it as from inspiring English sources

A Sports of The Times column on Monday about the historically vexing relationship between the National Football League and African-Americans, and the role Al Davis had in confronting it as owner of the Oakland Raiders misstated the current number of black and minority head coaches in the 32-team league.

In the 10 months since George W. Bush's departure from the scene, the Obama administration has portrayed the tasks confronting it as a series of challenges stemming primarily from a miserable presidential inheritance.

Another prominent argumentative strategy in support of the higher-brain approach contends that the definition of death is a moral issue and that confronting it as such vindicates the higher-brain approach (see, e.g., Veatch 1975, 1993; Gervais 1986, ch. 6).

The future was unknown, but I was happy I'd be confronting it as Emily's husband.

Or of being able to articulate and confront it as mightily as this.

If you find a problem, confront it as early as possible.

The Rev. Franklin Graham, who delivered the invocation at Mr. Bush's inauguration, was catalyzing the evangelical community to get over its aversion to the disease and confront it as part of its mission.

But once his cancer was diagnosed, again typically, he confronted it as a game to be won.

A Romanian who wrote in German, he was born in 1920, survived the Holocaust and confronted it as one of Europe's foremost post-World War II poets.

Some of the best films of the year to date, such as "The Future," "Bellflower," "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," and even "Certified Copy" have confronted it, as does the forthcoming "Silver Bullets," which I'll revisit later.

Whether either side consciously sought to replicate Lebanon at home, each is beginning to confront it, as they like to say around here, as a fact on the ground.