confront

Example Sentences

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"We can't have individuals that are impeding law enforcement operations and then showing up with guns and weapons and no ID, and confronting law enforcement," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on "Fox News Sunday."

From Barron's

"By directly confronting human and machine capabilities, studies like ours push us to rethink what we mean by creativity," concludes Professor Karim Jerbi.

From Science Daily

When confronted about the lack of food by a county monitoring team, the indictment alleged, Soofer “ran to a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant and came back with bags of food to give participants for lunch.”

From Los Angeles Times

For so long the giants of Welsh politics, Labour confront social changes and a fragmented electorate in the political home of its founding father, Keir Hardie.

From BBC

White said UFC confronted the fighter and his lawyer prior to the match and were given reassurances that nothing fishy was going on.

From The Wall Street Journal