Sentence examples for grips with issues from inspiring English sources

Its six characters are actors in a television sitcom who are unexpectedly forced to come to grips with issues of race and sexuality in their personal lives.

A teenager is killed for his trendy sneakers, and everybody associated with the shoe — the designer, the guy who created the advertising campaign, the president of the shoe company — has to come to grips with issues of attitude and perception.

In testimony on Tuesday after Mr. Major's three-hour appearance, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour opposition, said there had been "a failure to get to grips with" issues raised by the phone hacking scandal "by the press; the police, who did not investigate properly; and I think politicians, who were aware of some of what was going on and did not speak out".

The Blaenau Gwent assembly member said the party had failed to get to grips with issues including the management of hospitals and health board reorganisations.

Last week, as tension mounted in Ferguson, Missouri over a recently leaked autopsy that supported the police account of the shooting of Michael Brown, Montreal was also coming to grips with issues of police violence and impunity as developments in two recent police-related deaths in Quebec thrust the issue back into the spotlight.

While US military and intelligence recognise that climate change and resource scarcity are likely to destabilise a number of poor countries, Stigson says that politicians are "unable to get to grips with the issues and, as a result, are not creating a regulatory framework that is supporting business to innovate and to transform".

We'll never deal with poverty unless we get to grips with these issues.

Could we have the resolve to get to grips with big issues such as the budget deficit and national security?

If Mitt Romney wins, Nato commanders expect further delays as a new administration gets to grips with the issues.

And, because people are rightly bound to ask, we will report on how the Guardian Media Group itself is getting to grips with the issues.

BSR has just published a report that seeks to help companies get to grips with the issues, including eight guidelines for conducting effective human rights impact assessments.