Sentence examples for for not confronting from inspiring English sources

I usually hear two reasons for not confronting China over its policies.

After 21 people were killed in a church bombing last year, some Copts criticized the pope for not confronting the government.

Early in his term, Holder got a lot of flak for saying, in a speech on black history, that we were "a nation of cowards" for not confronting our racist legacy.

The group contrasted Francis, who has long been criticized for not confronting the dictatorship, with the 150 or so other priests who were killed during the so-called Dirty War.

Hillary Clinton, Obama's first-term secretary of state, 2008 presidential rival and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, gave an interview to the Atlantic excoriating Obama for not confronting Isis earlier.

He recorded in his memoirs the criticisms he had to face from some members of the Jewish community in the US for not confronting it, for not asserting a Jewish identity, even for not protesting at the time against the militant antisemitism of the Nazis.

Instead they routinely taunt the White House for: its "weakness" in not confronting Iran; its lack of support for Israel; its failure to act more vigorously in Libya and Syria; and its decision to honor agreements reached during the last Administration to withdraw from Iraq.

I think with any group session the very first session was a little bit, not confronting for me but we hadn't quite gelled as a group and that's to be expected.

Unfortunately, President Obama is pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and Clinton is not confronting him for doing so.

So, the good girl option in this story entails not confronting the frog for his unreasonable request, tolerating having a frog eat from her own plate, blindly obeying her father by taking the frog to her intimate space (her bedroom), and -- worst of all -- performing a disgusting act of kissing the slimy frog.

When I ask why we are not confronting these issues for the sake of people's health and lives, I am told we don't have to agree on everything, and when I ask why we don't push for what we know is right, I am told, "let's reach common ground first and we can go on and work for our own principles".