Sentence examples for event confronts from inspiring English sources

Whatever the technical causes of the sinking of the Kursk, the event confronts Mr. Putin with a political crisis.

"In the Unlikely Event" confronts the fact that as we grow up, the unexpected — tragedies, accidents, death, mysteries — becomes another kind of ordinary.

Every program, every commercial, every sporting event, confronts us with an endless stream of attractive, fit and healthy-looking people.

An early event confronted by the sperm ejaculated from epididymis is the seminal fluid which contains of various components including a number of proteases [17].

The confluence of events confronted Israel with the complex reality of a civil war just across the border in which both sides are hostile to the Jewish state.

It was the strength of those ties that catapulted Mr. Montezemolo into the chairman's seat at Fiat after a series of events confronted the Agnelli family with an agonizing decision after the death of the Fiat chairman, Umberto Agnelli, the brother of Giovanni Agnelli.

As veterans return from the front, Downton becomes an auxiliary hospital, an event that confronts its wealthier inhabitants with the uselessness of their lives.

The month-long "paint-in" has morphed into an event that confronts key questions that resonate with Africa, the Gulf, Latin America and Asia.

If you're going to ditch him for good, have a plan or a speech prepared in the event he confronts you and wants to know why you haven't called.

Meanwhile on NBC's Meet The Press, Florida senator Marco Rubio refused point-blank to say if he was up for the job, event when confronted with his own earlier "no" in regards to the vacant VP slot.

Everyone can choose a symbolic reading of the event when confronted by a painful situation, but here the work is not done on the symbolic, but operates a kind of short-circuit.