Sentence examples for encountered reality from inspiring English sources

Mr. Powell was no doubt raised on the merit gospel too, but encountered reality when he saw black Army officers with stellar records passed over for promotion for reasons of race.

Mr Zulkieflimansyah sees his party as undergoing a desirable process of moderation as it "encounters reality".

To my mind, it was the story of people who had moved to New York (or any big, cosmopolitan city) expecting, if not quite pursuing, something akin to the Sex and the City lifestyle, before quickly encountering reality.

The project creates a whole new world, perhaps even a Second Life and, soon, we'll all stop visiting art galleries and encountering reality in virtual worlds.

Yes, many have traveled to parts of the world where they have encountered the reality of people living in abject poverty, but that is precisely why they are choosing avenues of change that the established political parties do not seem to be addressing.

Tanaka's grand plans soon encountered the reality of the OPEC oil crisis.

"It's a word that seems to have an appealing aura if you haven't actually encountered the reality that it contains," Mr. Lasdun said, of "obsessed".

Long, long after I was able to pronounce the words, I encountered the reality of Foucault's profound insight into the individual reciprocity of knowledge and power.

I am not sure exactly but a notion of someone or someplace they have heard of, that is changed when that someone is met in person or that someplace is encountered in reality.

OSIrIS aims at simulating situations that are encountered in reality.

Three bread wheat varieties were grown in different environments to create variation in the grain shape and sizes to cover the range of variations encountered in reality.