Sentence examples for thus confronted from inspiring English sources

The captain thus confronted accusations of waning energy and impact.

We are thus confronted with the paradox that the devastation caused by backward-looking madmen will lead to a homage to the past.

He thus confronted the problem that faced all thinkers in 5th-century-bce China: how to bring political and social order out of chaos.

Maimonides was at the same time a vigorous adherent of the Aristotelian worldview and was thus confronted by the same unending task that preoccupied the great teachers of medieval Christendom.

Painters were thus confronted with the need to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art that would better reflect the changed social, material, and intellectual conditions of emerging modern life.

Thus, confronted for eight months with the reality of being examined by a Jewish policeman, Eichmann did not have the slightest hesitation in explaining to him at considerable length, and repeatedly, how he had been unable to attain a higher grade in the S.S., and why this was not his fault.

P eruvians thus confront a difficult choice: Mr. Toledo, an inexperienced leader dogged by personal credibility problems, or Mr. Garcia.

A constituent assembly was summoned that drew up a very liberal constitution, thus confronting John VI with an accomplished fact.

The other two people in the room — who, like the woman on crutches, secretly worked for us — ignored the woman, thus confronting the participant with a moral quandary.

The population pouring into this effervescent area is dominated by creatives and freelancers who rent — and thus confront disasters with cured meats more than plywood.

She thus confronts death head-on in her daily life — and has become more fearless than the rest of us, a mystery that confounds and attracts Mitchell.