Sentence examples for faced for the first from inspiring English sources

Now, faced for the first time in his Presidency with an inescapable adversary, he appeared to experience the debate as an insult.

He had faced for the first time the formidable, the sometimes unhittable, the famously sizable Randy Johnson, Arizona's 6-foot-10, fourth-in-career-strikeouts pitcher.

The incident in St . Louisinvolved "a relatively new officer being faced for the first time in her career with a situation of a child in a wheelchair," Mr. McLaughlin said.

Ken lost not because the Standard (or indeed Gordon Brown) cost him votes, but because he faced, for the first time, an opponent around whom the always high levels of hostility to him could coalesce.

Faced for the first time, courtesy of the economic crisis, with a future that does not automatically include growing prospects and prosperity, they long to go abroad, she said.

While a few have forged successful careers, most defectors suffer economic hardships because they have trouble managing their finances, particularly when faced for the first time with such a wide variety of choices in products and services.

Buehrle struck out six and retired all 27 batters he faced for the second perfect game in Sox history and the first since 1922.

They changed their strategy against Nate Cornejo, a 23-year-old right-hander they were facing for the first time.

His soliloquy movingly presents the crisis of someone who is facing, for the first time, the inevitability of death and the futility of egotistical designs.

The parents of landscape architect Joanna Yeates came face to face for the first time in court today with the man accused of murdering their daughter.

On that futsal court, Andrew Vickers came face to face for the first time with the man who had saved his life.