Apparently, around about the time we lost the ability to see the forest for the trees (which we are incessantly cutting down, by the way), we also confronted the threat -- according to poet John Godfrey Saxe -- of missing the elephant for its parts.
We also confronted the E. coli corrected regulatory model using the genome-scale compendium, obtaining 16 global inconsistencies between the model and the dataset when using 3-fold expression changes (see Fig. 7).
And since revolution is typically driven by new results, or by a conceptual-cum-social reorganization of old ones, often highly unexpected, we also confront the hard problem of understanding creative innovation.
But unless we also confront the sour, angry and inflamed national mood, not much will change, no matter who is president.
But, as we woke up this morning and turned on the radio or TV, and opened our newspapers or our laptops, we were also confronted by the twin facts that this was the end of 13 years of Labour government – the Blair/Brown years – and that Britain is now governed by a Conservative-led administration with a Tory prime minister, David Cameron.
Now, even as we prosecute two wars, we're also confronting perhaps the greatest danger to the American people -– the threat of nuclear weapons.
As we dismantle racialized systems and structures we must also confront the myths and ideology that sustain them if ever we are to achieve a society where all people are truly treated as equal and sacred human beings.
We must also confront the larger challenge of mandatory spending, or entitlements.
And we must also confront a growing tide of those seeking to corrupt and exploit this new international marketplace and the freedoms it brings, from drugs, counterfeit goods and people trafficking, to organised crime, fraud and terrorism.
In remarks at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference in February, Campbell's CEO Denise Morrison said: "we are also confronting profound shifts in consumers' preferences and priorities with respect to food", pointing to an "explosion of interest in fresh foods" and "a mounting distrust of so-called Big Food".
We must also confront the reality that more than 70% of students in higher education desert their studies.
