Recorded on tape admitting that his modus operandi is to force himself on women, push his tongue down their throats without their consent and to "grab them by the pussy", Donald Trump has since been confronted by at least 10 women who have testified that this was indeed his method – and that what he said into that hot mic in 2005 was the truth.
She has since had to confront cold reality in a nation of 3.5 million people who struggle with an 85 percent unemployment rate, where 60 percent of the population is under 25 years old.
But while he was able to persuade a skeptical Congress to pass a $700 billion financial rescue package, he has since had to confront what he described in the Rose Garden on Friday, as "a startling drop in the stock market — much of it driven by uncertainty and fear".
That night, a stranger pounded on the door and angrily confronted Mr. Lee's father, who has since been evicted.
Gessen offers the prehistory of Pussy Riot and their trial, including the art collective Voina – to which some Pussy Riot members belonged: "they wanted to confront a language of lies that had once been effectively confronted but had since been reconstructed and reinforced, discrediting the language of confrontation itself.
Unaccompanied piano performance is a challenge 30-year-old Gwilym Simcock hasn't confronted since his childhood classical training, and one that's all the greater because it invites comparison with a significant personal influence: Keith Jarrett.
But the uncomfortable truth is that the attacks on New York and the Pentagon have heightened the quandary that Pakistan has confronted since it emerged as a nation in 1947: whether to continue to straddle the divide between pro-Western, secularist elements and deeply conservative Muslim groups, some with extremist agendas, or to cast the country's lot decisively with the West.
Chen provided an "unsatisfactory response" when confronted, and has since resigned from his post.
Almost a year to the day after they assumed power, sending tremors through Europe's conservative establishment, the once unyielding anti-austerity leftists have come up against what every government has confronted since the onset of Greece's great economic meltdown: the difficulty of placating the bodies keeping the country afloat while avoiding the political cost of doing so.
Every Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher has been confronted with a Tory split over Europe, and eventually succumbed to it.
