"Our elites refuse to confront openly what Serbia did, for fear of being branded as traitors," Brankica Stankovic, one of the country's leading television journalists, said Tuesday.
"The problems in the U.S.-Saudi relationship must be confronted, openly," the report concludes, and a relationship must be "about more than oil".
Other investors, including the Ceres coalition which manages $3tn collectively, have demanded fossil fuel companies confront openly the risk of a "carbon bubble", by either diverting their investment to clean energy or giving the money back to shareholders.
Facebook has also dragged its feet in confronting openly abusive, racist content on its platform and recently faced criticism for internal policies that allow white nationalism while forbidding white supremacism, drawing what is widely considered to be an artificial distinction between the two.
They know there are people ready to confront openly a disease many of us would rather forget.
Instead, they will finally have to confront openly the question that goes to the heart of what universities should be about: why do big-time football's benefits outweigh its known and potential harms to the school's academic values and the players' health and education.
In some poems, Pope confronts quite openly his fervent moral idealism with his powerful aggressive feelings, and he explores his conflicting impulses toward retirement and engagement.
However, for many people, the thought of confronting someone openly about something rude or nasty that the other person has done, can be confronting in itself.
Confronted too openly, relatives often object, too.
Kerry must not yield to Russian intimidation – he must confront it, openly and unapologetically.
