Mr. Schulze's letter was clearly aimed at addressing the problem he confronts from one of these statutes, the Minnesota business combination act, which is adopted word-for-word in the company's certificate of incorporation.
Since then, he has taken stances like these on major international crises he has confronted, from Ukraine to Libya, and Syria to Iran and Yemen.
He seems to have grasped that the issues that preoccupied his world came more clearly to him when he confronted them from an oblique angle.
He confronted issues from the Irish Troubles to both Iraq wars in works that dropped the cool mask for outright engagement, making him even more of a meaty and serious proposition.
Whenever he wanted to do something bold — buy a studio or a network, for example — he confronted a veto from his board.
In testimony to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Mr. Paulson called the regulatory system that he confronted as secretary, from 2006 to 2009, "archaic and outmoded".
It is, after all, the only mode of behaviour Truman knows, since he has been confronted from birth by characters acting in a way that they think will please him, in order to win his favour and thereby influence Christof to extend their contracts.
On 8 May Coleridge challenged Bayliss in a letter to the Daily News: "As soon as Dr. Bayliss likes to test the bona fides and accuracy of my public declaration ... he shall be confronted from the witness box by eyewitnesses I rely upon".
The last president to hold an event officially throwing his hat into the ring for a second term was the first President George Bush, who made an "announcement speech" in Washington on Feb. 12, 1992, and then flew to New Hampshire about a week before its first-in-the-nation primary as he confronted a primary challenge from Patrick J. Buchanan, the conservative commentator.
As Daredevil, he confronts baddies – from car thieves to bikers, from wife-beaters to gangs of Irish, Mexican and Russian psychopaths – in the rundown NY district of Hell's Kitchen, leaving them down but never dead, in the style of the original comics.
