Sentence examples for confronting the fate from inspiring English sources

But now the professional letter writer is confronting the fate of middlemen everywhere: to be cut out.

Set in an art deco house on the Devon coast, it shows Walters as a high-society former hippie confronting the fate of the 60s revolutionary generation and that of her chaotically divided family.

Last year, the American novelists Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman and Dave Eggers led a group of writers to "bear witness" to the crisis in Iraq, confronting the fate of that country during and since the American occupation — the hundreds of thousands of dead, the vanished minorities, the chaos spreading across the region.

As I watched President Obama address the joint session of Congress, detailing his vision of health care coverage for all Americans, I also saw him as someone confronting the forces of fate and destiny.

Desautels said the family was confronting the cruel twist of fate head-on.

The artist Tom Gault confronts the various fates of lost volumes.

Solitude became for Homer not simply a preference but an absolute necessity, as he turned his mind and his art to subjects dealing with human fate in confronting the elemental forces of nature.

But the younger Mr. Shakeri said he hoped the Iranian leader would attend so he could be confronted about the fate of the imprisoned Americans.

The greatness of his words and the nobility of the way he stood there confronting the nation and confronting his own fate was the only moment in recent years that this nation rose to something moral and spiritual, where we all stood together looking at the tragedy of our existence.

Now, just as quickly as the hope had risen that she would finally discover his fate, she started confronting the reality that she would never find his body.

Scotland need to win both games, then defeat Liechtenstein next month to all but guarantee finishing second in Group I. Their final fixture is away to Spain, and Levein wants his team's fate secured before confronting the World and European champions.