There are too few housing facilities; we are regularly confronted with demands from people we are unable to even enroll on a waiting list".
In his brilliant essay "In Praise of Inconsistency," published in Dissent in 1964, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski argued that, given that we are regularly confronted with equally valid choices where painful ethical reflection is in order, being inconsistent is the only way to avoid becoming a doctrinaire ideologue who sticks to an algorithm.
Whereas in press releases we are regularly confronted with stories about South European young adults with tertiary education working in bars in Northern European cities, limited empirical evidence exists as such on the relationship between the recent Euro-crisis and migration aspirations.
It's an easy way to catch up on what you might have missed last week -- and with all that negative news with which we're regularly confronted, it's nice to take a minute and reflect upon the positive moments and events worthy of celebrating.
Accomplishing this will require some changes in the kinds of theory and empirical work we do, in order to regularly confront theory with evidence, and to use theory as a guide to what kinds of evidence we should collect.
We spoke with community members who regularly confront the troubling effects of gang and gun violence and documented the many ways they, along with McPhatter, are working to help end it.
A few investigative newspaper reporters still regularly confront the Kremlin.
As I see it, human beings and citizens in complex, modern democratic societies regularly confront situations in which traditional morality provides little if any guidance.
The ranchers, retirees and others who prefer to live off the grid in the vast desert near the Mexican border regularly confront the desperate and dehydrated illegal border crossers, who knock on their doors for directions and water, and lately more of the less innocent, who scurry across their land or lie low in the brush, stooped with marijuana and other drugs bundled on their backs.
The problem is that young women of color seeking hair extensions regularly confront poor consumer experiences, an issue that a white man who doesn't know about the culture of these communities would not immediately relate to.
Use these conversations to determine what types of issues they regularly confront, and get them to think about solutions.
