Sentence examples for first time confronting from inspiring English sources

This phrase has become almost a catechism for Israelis though many are now, for the first time, confronting the realisation that without some compromise on Jerusalem there will be no peace.

This wasn't their first time confronting Confederate sympathizers.

Our wanderer's existential misery is for the first time confronted with real distress, unchosen and stoically borne.

TUCSON — Jared L. Loughner was sentenced Thursday to seven consecutive terms of life in prison at a court hearing punctuated by raw emotion as former Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark E. Kelly, for the first time confronted the man who shot her in the head during a rampage last year that left 6 dead and 12 others wounded.

Spectators and even the court-appointed interpreter wept in court today as the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- planned in this city -- coursed through the accounts of relatives of victims, who for the first time confronted a man charged with conspiring in the attacks with their loss and suffering.

He locates the despair that grips men when they are forced for the first time to confront the betrayal of their aging bodies.

She said that when she started her show, which for the first time openly confronted topics like H.I.V./AIDS, homosexuality and workplace sexual harassment, "it was like a bomb went off".

In the United States, Trumpism seems like a chilling wake-up call for members of both parties forced for the first time to confront the deformed dynamics of their sociopolitical system.

The first time New York confronted its bedrock to build a subway, in 1900, the method was "cut and cover": nearly 8,000 laborers given to gambling, fighting and swearing were hired to pickax and dynamite their way through streets and utility lines for two miles.

A11 NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 Man Confronts Mother Convicted for Starving Him Bruce Jackson, 21, who two years ago was found rummaging through a neighbor's trash, for the first time publicly confronted his adoptive mother, as she was about to be sentenced to 7 years in prison for starving him and his three younger brothers.

The first time I confronted homophobia from a student, I feared that I might be labeled as high-strung or overly-sensitive.