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Mr. Bush now confronts the first Democratic majority in the House in 12 years and a significantly bigger Democratic caucus in the Senate that were largely elected on the promise to act as a strong check on his administration.
Robin Schlaff, one of Mr. Spano's four assistants, was told this week she would be out of the job effective Dec. 31, as Mr. Spano confronts the first major corruption scandal in his nearly four years as county executive.
His novel "The Fifth Son" confronts the second generation's encounter with survivor parents.
At one point in the video, the lifeguard stands up and exchanges blows with one of the men while a bystander moves in and confronts the second attacker.
Al Groh confronted the first public crisis of his head coaching tenure last week, and he handled it with perfect Parcellsian pitch.
"In Guatemala, criminal organizations had never been confronted," the first director of the panel, the Spanish jurist Carlos Castresana, told a local television station in March.
Newspapers carried anguished editorials discussing how France should confront the first decapitation as an act of terrorism on its own soil.
Whether out of conscience or a desire to assuage the anger of local constituencies, these dissenters have opened up a new front against the party as it maneuvers to confront the first real challenge to its authority in a decade.
The scenes from France are familiar, but not so familiar to President Nicolas Sarkozy, confronting the first big wave of industrial unrest of his time in the Elysée Palace.
ALBANY — As Gov. David A. Paterson found himself confronting the first crisis of his day-old administration on Tuesday morning, it was left to Charles J. O'Byrne, his trusted second in command, to contain the damage.
President Donald Trump headed to Texas to confront the first major natural disaster, and biggest test yet, of his presidency as officials struggled to manage an unprecedented deluge delivered by Hurricane Harvey.
