Sentence examples for urged to confront from inspiring English sources

Related: Bangladesh is being urged to confront its Islamic State problem.

It was an urge to confront reality that inspired Italy's postwar neo-realists and the cinéma-vérité pioneers of the 1960s.

The PLA has little urge to confront America head-on, but plenty to deter it from protecting Taiwan.The pace of China's military upgrading is causing concern in the Pentagon.

But Copland was no longer in an ingratiating mood; some sudden rage welled up in him, some urge to confront the gala audience with dark news about the state of the world or to express a private agony that he left unspecified.

There's a good chance that some of our family members didn't vote for the same candidate as we did and we may feel an urge to confront them for their choices.

The president urged Rwandans to confront the past and then put it behind them.

He also urged Afghanistan to confront past wrongdoing during the country's 23 years of war.

The president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, who has fostered closer ties with the mainland, also urged China to confront the episode.

I have some sympathy for those Labour operatives now insisting they urged Miliband to confront the Tory/Lib Dem narrative of Labour fiscal incontinence, only to be rebuffed – because I experienced that rebuffing for myself.

I have sympathy for Labour people who urged Miliband to confront the Tory narrative: I experienced his rebuffing myself No one can say this wasn't predictable and indeed predicted.

Chinese dissidents have urged Barack Obama to confront Xi Jinping over what they called China's worst human rights crisis since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown when he travels to the G20 economic summit in Hangzhou this week.