Sentence examples for seriously confronted from inspiring English sources

This is precisely Tyson's problem -- in every fight in which he has been seriously confronted with the possibility of losing, he has either come apart and been knocked out or done something ridiculous to force a disqualification.

Since then, for a variety of causes, some wholly preventable, some less so, the often imagined but never seriously confronted prospect of a lethal, global pandemic with no readily available cure, spiralling out of control, has drawn ever closer.

Obama is rising in the public's estimation because people are now being seriously confronted with the two candidates who might be our next president.

Bourgeois-Pichat (1959) estimated under-registration in deriving annual estimates of Thai crude birth and death rates for 1920 1955 (solid lines in Figure 1, updated to 1972 by Vallin, 1976), but the issue was seriously confronted only when the National Statistical Office NSOO) initiated decennial Surveys of Population Change (SPCs) in 1964 1967.

The Mubarak regime has inherited the cobra but has done little to seriously confront it, let alone to kill it.

The taunting interchanges become a verbal battle, but the characters do not seriously confront the central issue.

Given the shifting balance of power, the "moderates" are in no position to seriously confront Iran and its allies.

It fascinates and appals me that British culture has so few bodies of work that seriously confront that".

Beijing will now have to seriously confront the pleas of families, economists and others to abandon the draconian one-child rule.

What Obama has not made clear is whether or not he will embrace the type and scale of investments necessary to seriously confront the climate challenge".

Still, it is remarkable that many thousands of listeners are on one level or another grappling with such issues and, more to the point, seriously confronting some of Bach's most profound and uplifting music.