Sentence examples for was confronted for from inspiring English sources

Arriving at the studios, he was confronted for the first time by a wall of paparazzi.

He died after officers subdued him with a neck hold when he was confronted for selling individual cigarettes outside some stores.

Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor for The New Yorker, was confronted for what Mr. O'Reilly described as taking a "Factor" segment out of context.

At a youth tournament in Ireland as a teenager, he was confronted for the first time with large-scale racism as he heard hateful chants from a group of Irish fans.

When I went to college on the East Coast, I was confronted for the first time by people who said my name correctly without prompting; if they stumbled, there was a quick apology and an honest plea to help with the pronunciation.

Gaskin alluded to the 2012 racially charged shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a Florida neighbourhood watch organiser who was subsequently acquitted of murder charges, as well as the New York man who died from a police chokehold after he was confronted for selling individual cigarettes.

All cases need to be confronted for what they are.

On Wednesday, Padraig Harrington entered the Travelers media room to be confronted for an explanation.

He's going to be confronted for situations he's probably not really prepared for yet.

In this artificial capturing of local color, he pretends to be confronted for the first time with this prospect of being on camera.

He said, "We owe it to the victims of Hama and Homs to learn one lesson: that cruelty must be confronted for the sake of justice and human dignity".