"I have only been back at the commission three months," Harvey L. Pitt, the S.E.C. chairman, said in a speech last November, "but I am appalled by the number of repeat offenders we seem to confront at virtually every commission meeting".
Mr. Walker said that in restricting collective bargaining rights for government workers, save those in public safety, he was confronting a reality facing virtually all state governments with aging, unionized work forces: "We can't sustain our budgets unless we make some reasonable changes".
It is a dilemma -- balance versus baggage -- that has confronted subway riders virtually from the start.
Randy Kennedy writes, "It is a dilemma -- balance versus baggage -- that has confronted subway riders virtually from the start" ("Stand Clear of Closing Doors, and That Love Seat," Tunnel Vision column, Oct. 29).
Millions like her around the world confront old age virtually alone, without even the hope of anything like Social Security.
Historically, our national leaders have been virtually invisible in confronting mental health issues.
This is not a partisan question; though today the filibuster, real or threatened, dominates virtually every significant issue confronting the Senate and our nation.
For Ehrenfels, this would actually present a "solution to virtually all the major problems confronting European societies" (Dickinson 2002, 257) in his time.
Confronting an environment of sluggish economic growth and virtually unlimited campaign contributions, the Obama campaign adopted the tactics that it deemed necessary to defeat the opposition.
Friedman of The New York Times sat down with President Barack Obama last week at the White House for a discussion on virtually every major international story that the United States is confronting at the moment.
