Sentence examples for unable to confront from inspiring English sources

The country is congested and people are unable to confront the regime".

Perhaps he didn't remember who Brüll was; perhaps he was unable to confront this apparition from the past.

For a full month afterward, she slept on the living room couch, unable to confront the bed again.

But it is disconcerting when they are unable to confront the market and political realities of too-big-to-fail banks.

Indeed, the current case against Judge Garzón shows just how necessary universal jurisdiction is when countries are unable to confront their own pasts.

Reading #YesAllWomen, and participating in it, is the opposite of warily watching a man masturbate and being unable to confront him with language.

As Hannah Arendt pointed out, the hardline intellectuals in the Fifties and Sixties who denounced as 'appeasement' and a 'second Munich' anything less than a state of full nuclear preparedness against 'monolithic communism' were 'unable to confront reality on its own terms because they had always some parallels in mind that "helped" them to understand those terms'.

Newton was unable rationally to confront criticism.

Unable anymore to confront the Russians, the separatists, many of them Islamic fundamentalists, are waging a campaign using increasingly audacious terrorist tactics that have been seen as a sign of the rebels' desperation.

We seem unable to face up to many of the hard truths confronting the U.S. as we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

But the contracting industry seems unable or unwilling to confront this wider dimension of its work.