Sentence examples for scrambled to confront from inspiring English sources

Japanese interceptor jets scrambled to confront it.

Long accustomed to fighting alcohol abuse among young people, officials are now scrambling to confront the new and less understood threat of combining high amounts of alcohol with caffeine.

Already scrambling to confront multiple simultaneous international crises, the Obama administration stepped up efforts on Saturday to avert another, as the US secretary of state, John Kerry, called on China and its smaller neighbours to take new steps to ease tensions over maritime disputes in Asian waters that many fear could spark conflict.

Cleanup crews and local officials are scrambling to confront challenges ranging from chemical residue to protesting families five days after a chemical storage facility exploded in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.

The campaign of Douglas R. Forrester, the Republican candidate, has also been thrown into disarray; there is little joy in the scramble to confront an entirely new opponent.

Psychoanalyzing the Supreme Court in the aftermath of Bush v. Gore was the second challenge confronting the Republicans' lawyers today as they scrambled to keep a potential Democratic winner from replacing an almost certain loser.

Legislatures scrambled to enact laws.

I scrambled to my feet.

The bank scrambled to react.

Wall Street firms scrambled to compete.

Madly, I scrambled to the site.