Sentence examples for confronts across from inspiring English sources

In a coup of installation, the Fischl confronts, across a room, "White Squad I" (1982), by Leon Golub, a terrific painter whose long career — he died at eighty-two, in 2004 — earned him scant reward, owing to his insistently political content.

Because Parker and Arndt are required to confront across a long, relatively narrow space, Brokaw occasionally has them address each other from unrealistic distances.

How could it sustain them if it became independent?In such places, the "yes" campaign faces a particularly acute version of a problem that confronts it across Scotland.

The outcry facing Mr. Bloomberg may soon confront officials across the country; many states are expected to administer Common Core exams in the 2014-15 school year.

Such gentle talk was heard less elsewhere, as governments confronted demonstrators across Europe, with unions turning the day into one of continent-wide protest.Mr Zapatero had sweetened the pill by announcing a tax increase for the rich in 2011.

Police and heavily armed soldiers confronted protesters across burning barricades, and the district headquarters of Kabila's political party was set on fire by a crowd, prompting a barrage of teargas.

Gov. Mike Huckabee, an Arkansas Republican who is facing re-election this year and who has had to deal with budget difficulties at home, said he believed that voters would not hold governors responsible for what he asserted was a problem confronting governments across the nation.

And that's one of the great problems confronting societies across the globe right now.

"They must have gotten rid of one of the videos," said Melissa Quair, 31, who told of seeing deputies pummel and kick Silva after confronting him across the street from Kern Medical Center in East Bakersfield.

Mr. Fahrenkopf does not buy the conventional wisdom that Mr. Bush will perform better if he confronts Mr. Gore across a television newsman's desk instead of in a traditional behind-the-lectern debate.

There is no way anyone -- anyone with an open mind, that is -- could read this report and continue to deny what confronts African Americans across our country.