But after setting all those goals, we're often faced with a hard truth: we will not have enough money to reach all our goals.
Once you break through the clutter of emotions about President Obama's recent delay in taking executive action to ameliorate the collapsing immigration "system" in America, you are faced with a stark truth: Republicans have been sabotaging immigration reform since at least 2007, when Republicans in the Senate killed Bush's immigration reform bill.
Yet, faced with a moment of truth, he blinked.
I mean, that wasn't a number I had ever even considered... and I was faced with a pretty serious truth.
Faced with a choice between hard truths and easy lies, politicians and their supporters in the media will discover that foreign aggression is among the few options for political survival.
Yet in truth you are faced with a nervous board, a frankly aggressive tier of middle management hell bent on defending their pensions, a digital team who, despite being extremely keen, can only communicate in techno babble, and a legion of agencies and consultants pounding at your door.
Faced with a sociological naturalism that relativized claims to truth and justice are necessary for social criticism, the challenge could be answered by detranscendentalizing truth without losing its normativity (Horkheimer 1993, 6; McCarthy, in McCarthy and Hoy 1994, 10).
Faced with a finely-tuned and well-funded Russian propaganda machine, truth and openness ought to be Ukraine's most powerful weapons.
The truth is, you may be faced with a range of options.
In truth, the Germans were just too good last night, especially when they were faced with a Portugal defence that is starting to look like a comedy ensemble.
