Sentences with phrase «day confronted reality»

Earlier this week County Executive Ed Day confronted reality and bit the metaphorical budget bullet by facing up to the fact that the County owed millions of dollars, was running a multi-million dollar deficit, had overtaxed homeowners, and had police services that the County could not afford and did not need.

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But in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to confront the growing reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

Love your thoughts, but until ignorance is no longer bliss you can expect those who back their good thoughts and feelings with fantasy rather than the realities we are confronted wth every day to rule our lives.

The impression of being confronted with a stale program becomes so much the greater for the reader of the present day, who is otherwise open to intellectually demanding projects, when Whitehead designates Process and Reality as «an essay in Speculative Philosophy» (PR 3/4) and explains his cosmology as aiming at a «system of general ideas» (ibid.).

As I shall say, confronting that plain fact does not suggest that we should spend our time in the not very profitable exercise of meditating every day on its reality.

Forgetting about it is something that's easy for me to do because I'm not confronted with the realities of racism every day.

«But if Ms. Rice wants to bring her office into the present day, she needs to confront the reality that some of those skilled, hard - charging lawyers will be devoted parents, too.

From Sai Buhari to Kai Buhari is how ordinary Nigerians have constructed the social reality which confronts them in present day Nigeria.

Forced to confront the realities of adulthood for the first time, Donna prepares herself to have an abortion — on Valentine's Day, of all days — and finds support in the most unexpected places.

As the days grow darker and the nights more disturbing, Kaia is forced to confront Christine's tangled perception of reality, which may have begun to alter her own.

«That day, I confronted for the first time the reality of what I was facing,» Beals writes.

I think once the bad days outweigh the good ones, it's time to confront reality.

One could offer a lot of impractical suggestions, but having worked in cat shelters for most of my life, I know the realities they confront every day.

But every day, we are confronted with the reality that over 19,000 companion animals in the Midlands are homeless.

To these workers, climate change is not merely an abstraction; it is a sweltering reality that they must confront every day.

Although the Court of Appeal shared the sympathies which Mr Justice McCombe had previously expressed for police officers «who have to confront day in and day out the realities of life rather than the black letter law which this court has to apply» (see Bonner v DPP [2004] EWHC 2415 (Admin), [2004] All ER (D) 74 (Oct)-RRB-, it recognised, as indeed it must, that if the law were to be changed, it was to be achieved by Parliament using the legislative process rather than by the courts according the statutory provision a «liberal» (or illiberal) interpretation.

One of the most common complaints I hear from recent graduates is that they feel under - prepared to deal with the day - to - day realities of practice that they are confronting as articling students or recent calls.