Sentence examples for directly confronted by from inspiring English sources

He said he wanted to have "the reader directly confronted by the characters," so he tried to write the piece in such a way that, as he put it, "my mediation would, ideally, disappear".

In the House of Commons, Mr Cameron was directly confronted by the Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston – a former GP – who asked about reports that the Prime Minister had had a change of heart and was preparing for a U-turn on the issue.

In 2010, I was directly confronted by this reality when I was wrongly accused of a felony in a case in Florida that I am unequivocally convinced was racially and politically motivated.

Clinicians may have been more supportive of task shifting to lower cadres of health workers than non-clinicians because they are more directly confronted by the reality of constrained access to ART and the complexity of ART provision, or lack thereof; front-line health workers in Mozambique, Zambia [ 13], and South Africa [ 12] support task shifting, whereas policy-makers in Uganda have not [ 15].

Gill was selected as a complement, as it is a surface tissue directly confronted by the severe ice-laden marine environment, it is highly metabolically active, being the major site of osmoregulation and respiration, and also because it has largely been ignored in prior investigations of notothenioid transcriptomes.

In the first socioeconomic policy experiment of the 20th century, laissez faire or the practices that label had come to signify, was directly confronted and rejected by communism, a full-blown theoretical socioeconomic system.

Iran and Syria heightened tension across the Middle East and directly confronted the Bush administration yesterday by declaring they had formed a mutual self-defence pact to confront the "threats" now facing them.

Still, he never directly confronted McCarthy or criticized him by name in any speech, thus perhaps prolonging McCarthy's power by giving the impression that even the President was afraid to criticize him directly.

Mr. Khalid directly confronted the accusations of bad behavior by the staff of the security directorate that he is taking over, particularly the arrests of innocent people and the early release of guilty ones.

But Obama and Vice President Biden have also been directly confronted on the issue in recent weeks by rank-and-file members.

By occupying a highly sensitive area, Greenham women directly confronted Heseltine's assertion that Greenham was the most secure base in Europe.