Sentence examples for confronting up from inspiring English sources

Then there's "Somewhereinamerica", with its old-school jazz trombone sample, and sneers at the "blue bloods" he now claims to be confronting, up in the ruling class of America where he's hoisted himself.

At the time the foreign delegation visited, United Nations relief officials were warning that a long drought and a harsh winter were confronting up to a million Afghans with starvation.

The Dardennes offer a fascinating glimpse of the human face when confronted up-close with a moral choice between compassion and self-interest.

Hovering just outside the Premier League's relegation places would have felt a world away when this club was confronting winding up orders or languishing at the foot of League Two with -17 points to their name.

Montxo Armendariz's tender-hearted film maintains Javi's perspective, doing "a fine job of evoking the mixture of curiosity and fear experienced by an innocent child confronting grown-up sorrows" (Stephen Holden).

Confronted with up to 20,000 people pouring into the mine to defend the workers, some from as far away as the city of Cacak in central Serbia and Belgrade, the capital, 40 miles to the northeast, the police broke and stood aside.

Torres spoke about the challenges he had confronted growing up, and closed with a message for his fellow-millennials: "Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light.

In this regard, the issues such as loading efficacy and controlled release of the agents are of the inseparable obstacles that researchers are confronted with up to now.

Incapable of change and therefore the fit object of unrelenting hostility, they needed to be confronted militarily, up to the point of nuclear annihilation if that's what it took, as the taped musings of various U.S. presidents attest.

Bullying is an escalating process in the course of which the person confronted ends up in an inferior position and becomes the target of systematic negative social acts.

But maybe they end up confronting the wrong man, or getting mixed up in an organization bent on world domination.