Sentence examples for find ourselves confronted from inspiring English sources
We find ourselves confronted with ice-sheet disintegration that, in some susceptible areas, already appears unstoppable.
Now we find ourselves confronted with the unintended consequences of cheap and abundant food, foremost among them the epidemic of obesity.
The fact that we did not find ourselves confronted with civilian casualties, or embroiled in an extended firefight, was a testament to the meticulous planning and professionalism of our Special Forces, but it also depended on some luck.
Frédéric's doctor, Jean-Paul Milanese, wrote in a letter to a child-welfare judge, "We find ourselves confronted with a young runaway teen, mute, having broken with his former life".
"We find ourselves confronted by a long series of defaults on the part of the Puglia region, which risks blowing to smithereens all the work the Lecce council has done over these long years in commissioning high level studies on the replacement of the sand, studies that should have been commissioned by the region.
The risks in that case were immense; the likelihood of capture, although our preference, was remote given the certainty of resistance; the fact that we did not find ourselves confronted with civilian casualties, or embroiled in an extended firefight, was a testament to the meticulous planning and professionalism of our Special Forces – but also depended on some luck.
In the age of geoengineering, we might find ourselves confronting the end of miracles, too.
And when we explore his achievement we find ourselves confronting nearly all the essential dynamics of the modern century.
So it comes as something of a shock to find ourselves confronting a woman created nearly 80 years ago.
So it is depressing to find ourselves confronting the idea again, just a few weeks later, thanks to the allegedly left-of-centre thinktank Demos.
If the two sides start thinking of each other as adversaries, he said, "we will find ourselves confronting each other across Asia and across the world".
