Sentence examples for were confronted in from inspiring English sources

A few years ago we were confronted in print by our shameful infatuation with 1471; now Jane Green's character Julia obsesses over pregnancy tests, taking them far too early and stockpiling them under the bed.

Police Chief Brian Wilson of Federal Way said Monday that officers investigating a 911 call at the apartment were confronted in the stairway by the man with a shotgun.

"I remember the desperation my mom, my sister and I felt when we were confronted in the middle of the night with some of the very real challenges of stepfathers wanting to hurt us," he said.

They were confronted in their hotel room by Jean Aberbach, director of Hill & Range music publishing company, who asked to see the songs.

Eight months later, Israeli soldiers were confronted in the Gaza settlement of Kerem Atzmona by Jewish children with yellow stars of David pinned on their chest, intentionally evoking images of Jews being deported to their death by the Nazis.

The writers, who had not produced any material, toured the city and were confronted in a hotel room by Jean Aberbach, who locked them into their hotel room by blocking the hotel room door with a sofa until they wrote the material.

Selye (1976) concluded that the influence of stressors on a person depends on the number of stressors that must be confronted in a time, the duration of confrontation and existence of previous experience with the same stressors [ 23].

He wants his arguments to be confronted in themselves.

In January her teenage son was confronted in a nightclub and beaten.

But that is not the situation with which the world is confronted in 2008.

Even as acid rain was being confronted in 1990, climate change was entering the public debate.