Sentence examples for prefers to confront from inspiring English sources

The former president preferred to charm; the former speaker prefers to confront.

Like Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. Olbermann, Ms. Maddow prefers to confront guests she already agrees with.

"A cold wind is blowing toward Israel from every corner in the world, but they refuse to deal with the hard facts and are bringing a diplomatic storm," he said "Netanyahu prefers to confront the whole world, from President Obama to other friends".

Although neighbors know her as the woman who organized a candlelight protest against the war in Iraq, these days she prefers to confront the world from her desk, using research and correspondence to raise questions that encompass American and Israeli foreign policy and the influence of political lobbies on mainstream academia.

They prefer to confront the onslaught with netting, spray repellent, task-force meetings and letters to the editor.

I've engaged with folk tales and fairy tales all my writing life, as part of my attempted disruption of the myths that environ and sometimes govern us, usually preferring to confront them on their own ground in the way that Aesop, before his execution, confronts his fables in "Aesop's Forest".

Maybe the reason we are seeing so many fanciful movies about the destruction of the planet is because most of us would actually prefer to confront a threat to the entire planet, rather than a threat to Greece and Ireland and Iceland and Portugal and our bank accounts and our kids and our 747.

Along with the organization he heads, Mr. ElBaradei, an Egyptian, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, and has built a reputation for seeking a more cooperative relationship with nations such as Iran, North Korea and Iraq that many in the Bush administration preferred to confront and threaten.

The nurses preferred to confront the physician after the rounds in a more informal setting, or not at all.

The Bundesliga club might have preferred to be confronting a full-strength side who would have been jaded.

"However, I believe it's my job to address issues you'd prefer not to confront.