Sentence examples for years confronting from inspiring English sources

The authorities spent successive years confronting waves of conspiracies, including the foiled plot in 2006 to bomb at least seven airliners over the Atlantic.

As executive director of the National Football League Players Association, he has been equally brave over the years, confronting ownership on a variety of issues.

As Christophers observes, both spent many years confronting persecution: William Byrd for his Catholicism in the Anglican world of Elizabeth I, and Arvo Pärt as a modernist composer growing up in the Soviet Union.

Think about that for a moment: a blue-collar worker who has retired fairly comfortably, despite having spent years confronting his employer on picket lines and in grievance hearings.

I have spent many years confronting this dilemma and have devised three strategies for finding ready-to-drink clarets at prices that aren't outrageous.

Many audience members were Internet veterans, who have spent years confronting legal issues with content distribution on digital platforms.

In the show's fourth episode, a couple married for forty years confronts the husband's serial cheating, which the wife has only recently discovered.

IT is a truism that artists in their last years confront the waning of their powers and undertake the work of valediction.

One hallmark of traditional marketing is competition among brand sellers, and that has certainly been the case with erectile-dysfunction drugs as Viagra, alone in the category for five years, confronts two new rivals.

At a time when most of his peers are perfecting their golf game, Ferraro is spending part of his golden years confronted with the harsh realities affecting families at risk in his town.

This study was an attempt to replicate this finding in two distinct samples of bereaved children (N = 197; aged 8 12 years) and adolescents (N = 135; 13 18 years), confronted with the death of a parent, sibling or other close relative.