confront

Example Sentences

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"You can't confront crime without reinforcing justice, the police, intelligence, the prosecutor's office, and the judiciary. Otherwise, you can pass 50,000 laws and nothing will change."

From Barron's

Once, confronted with a contested four-way stop, Harvey waited for the offending cyclist to clear, then took his turn briskly.

From The Wall Street Journal

As time went on, the crowd got more and more restless, she said, and some people began confronting officers.

From Los Angeles Times

Here is the truth we must confront: Poverty doesn’t produce moral decay.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Data and observations are essential to our efforts to confront climate change and air quality challenges, and these challenges don’t know borders,” said Florian Pappenberger, director general of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

From Los Angeles Times