In its own small way, it reckons with the narratives that have been thrust upon black men, the narratives they've had to buy into, paramount among these that being gay means being weak, and thus not a man at all. .
The governor has argued — and many budget watchdogs agree — that the state must cut the two largest parts of the budget, education and health care, as it reckons with huge budget gaps.
It also reckons with Ms. Packer's past: Her father, a law professor at Stanford who had suffered a debilitating stroke, committed suicide when she was 13.
But bolder still is Tomorrowland's sincere attempt to jump-start humanity's technological optimism, which it reckons stalled with the decline of the space race with potentially planet-threatening consequences.
It reckons critical illness with life cover could rise by 6% for men and 16% for women.
The claim that it is an organization devoted, in part, to its scholarship program forces it to reckon with its CEO's dwarfing salary.
For it is not only the absence of God that Hardy reckons with; it is the way that absence changes how we think about ethics, mortality, and value, the way it challenges all our traditions and aspirations.
When the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the death penalty is unconstitutional in the state, it reckoned squarely with the kind of questions that citizens often ask and that legal cases seldom answer: Is capital punishment moral?
Today, however, it must reckon with the slow, idiosyncratic and variable course of the damaged human brain.
But because of the nature of its post-colonial immigration, France finds itself with more Muslims than it had reckoned with.
"If the United States wants both decency and success in counterinsurgency, it must reckon with the consequences," Sarah B. Sewell, a military policy expert at the Kennedy School at Harvard, wrote in the introduction to the 2006 update to the Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
