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Usage examples of confront.

An integral part of the court, albeit a minor one, he was, when he failed his duty, confronted by the single most important fact known to all bureaucrats of any nation or epoch: those above were not interested in excuses, only in results.

For the first time, Adams was confronted with so much that generations of his people had abhorred and rebelled against, and he found himself both distressed and strangely moved.

Of the two, Adams would have less to say, and unlike Abigail, he did not confront Jefferson with his ire.

Instead of confronting the Luftwaffe over France or evacuating Allied soldiers from Dunkirk, Skip had been relegated to testing aerocraft at Biddington Airfield until a chap named Cunningham finally came in and replaced him.

The agents came down and brought them upstairs, where they were immediately confronted by the Calverton surveillance photos.

While one JTTF agent searched his home with Kenyan police, other agents confronted El-Hage at Nairobi Airport.

Today Herbert Marcuse, whose theories have gained new attention as a result of the impressive events of 1968 in France and the nearly universal antiwar and antipollution movements in the United States, feels confronted with the same demand.

Still dazed, I found the copy of the New English Bible and, confronting Beth in the bacchante room, swore on the Book never to have anything to do with Tamar again.

As if watching Luciano playing tug-of-war with the bottles of Barolo wasnt humiliating enough, now to be confronted with her own utter lack of skills in the domestic hygiene department was mortifying beyond belief.

News of the attack on the convent had spread quickly, and Father Berrendo was elected to confront Colonel Acoca.

Captain Bihari sat alone at a desk, confronting a screen live but blank.

As he confronted Marlowe, he swept back the cape in a deliberately dramatic gesture, revealing a black vinyl bodysuit that left his arms bare.

But he had survived, and confronting the Amir of Bokhara should be easy compared to facing and accepting his own failings.

The methods of science, or at least biological science, they would maintain, cannot provide understanding of the mind, either because the mind is fundamentally inaccessible to materialist investigation or because our techniques, while they may be applicable to understanding animal brains and behaviour, fail when confronted with the complexities of human thought, speech and social existence.

Instead, she handed the flowers to one of the ever-present footmen with the same resolve Brenn had used himself to confront French cannons.