Sentences with phrase «find confronting»

It leads to men say and do things around me that I sometimes find confronting.

With its arrival, I find myself confronting the same dilemma as before: Do I really want all the exciting bells and whistles that come with Apple's device, or a sleek, professional, work - oriented smartphone with that trusty QWERTY keyboard I've been missing so much?

What this means is that you, like so many other leaders through history, will find yourself confronting the fact — so easy to overlook these past few years — that the health of a nation's food system is a critical issue of national security.

TORONTO — As students prepare to make the leap from high school to college or university, many may find themselves confronting some tough, new lessons outside the classroom.

Alex's view on nature was that any time it ventured inside, it was going to find itself confronting a big can of Raid.

The rest of the film plays out like watching a car crash up close and in slow motion, as the characters swerve away from danger only to find themselves confronting it again.

But the large community of CFS patients, who often find themselves confronting a medical establishment that questions the very existence of their disease, pounced on this finding, and some even started taking antiretroviral medicine to treat their supposed XMRV infections.

Although communication and collaboration have never been easier, many universities, in particular, find themselves confronting ever more serious immigration - related problems — collaborators unable to obtain visas, graduate students accepted into programs but unable to enter the country because of their nationality.

I find myself confronting them on occasion.

If you find yourself confronting poor results — a dribble — or even if you are looking for new paths for growth in your company's performance, wouldn't your time be best served identifying and removing the kinks?

He found himself confronting at least a dozen jars full of different strains of weed.

Adidas was underperforming top rival Nike (nke) in the key U.S. sportswear market and even found itself confronting headlines that it was trailing Under Armour (ua), a far smaller upstart brand.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

However dubious this theory may have been, I found myself confronting the ultimate issues of the nature of the world and the nature of man in a more naked form than I was likely to face them in theology.

Any minister who is tempted to assume that counseling with persons who are in the process of recovering from mental illness should be entirely the province of the psychiatrist, «rill find himself confronted by this paragraph:

At other times the will finds itself confronted by a genuine «plurality of possibilities» and thus «vacillates to and fro between conscience and desire,» leaving sufficient room for spontaneous and creative decisions by the will (DN 165).

At any moment in the story, a paladin might find himself confronted by a giant Saracen astride a galloping giraffe, or trapped in an enchanted castle oblivious of his own name, or beset by an army of demons, or challenged by an ogre, or lost in a fairy otherworld full of the most exquisite enchantments, or at the mercy of a sorcerer.

He also tells how this closed circle of the self was again and again forced outward toward relationship through those times when, despite his will, he found himself confronting his patient not as an analyst but as human being to human being.

Yet K, a replicant himself, finds himself confronting the boundary between machine and maker.

«Curiously enough we find ourselves confronted by two different worlds with respect to disability.

They would have found themselves confronted in him with a moral reality — disturbing, sometimes even terrifying, but not to be ignored and never to be forgotten — which might alone have prompted the solemn wonder, «Is this the Christ?»

But does this attitude of unconcerned detachment really meet the situation of the individual man today, who finds himself confronted by the expansion and overflowing of human collectivization?

After these remarks on the challenge of a self - critique of the historical method, we now find ourselves confronted with the positive side of the problem, how to join its tools with a better philosophy which would entail fewer drawbacks foreign to the text, which would be less arbitrary, and which would offer greater possibilities for a true listening to the text itself.

Today the world, the environment and the human milieu which the individual finds himself confronted with, has become fluid, because it is planned and made by man himself.

Diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable case of cancer in the summer of 2000, James Kugel, a preeminent biblical scholar, suddenly found himself confronting ultimate questions» not dispassionately, as he was trained to do, but in the most visceral sense.

One of the more memorable quotes from the Watergate era is from the wife of a White House staffer who opened her front door and found herself confronted by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

They also found themselves confronting biblical passages which affirmed the value of the state — or, at the very least, of the official political authorities — and ascribed to it a divine origin.

Utopian man who trained himself to become a tiger - tamer finds himself confronted with a carnivorous lady.

But death strikes all in due season, and from time to time we find ourselves confronted by our finitude, as if awakened from some dreamless slumber.

It was years later that he found himself confronted with an unexpected experience while pasturing his flock.

Even if you've never hosted a dinner yourself, I'm sure you can relate to a time when you went to someone's house for dinner, and found yourself confronted by a visibly stressed or anxious host.

«Thank God for rough water and fog,» said Peter Rothschild later, and his gratitude was sincere, for, as the fog descended, Surf Rider's compass had broken and her worried crew found themselves confronted by a solid wall of jagged rock.

In short, whether east, west, north or south, Europeans are now finding themselves confronting each other rather than their common challenges, a situation which the European Union was supposed to bring to an end, and which the French election result will almost certainly aggravate.

The international community has wrung its hands over the Syrian civil war for months but now finds itself confronted with a new level of horror.

Cambridge Analytica has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports about the firm's data harvesting were published this month in The New York Times, The Observer of London and The Guardian.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

In only a few centuries we could find ourselves confronted with cousins akin to warmongering Klingons — a scenario perhaps best avoided.

When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a student finds himself confronted with the reality that not only do extraterrestrials actually exist, but they are taking possession of humans, harvesting the organs, and implanting them with mysterious devices.

However, by that time most of the major figures of the Nazi regime were either dead or long missing, and in the resulting legal proceedings American judges often found themselves confronting the question of how much responsibility someone held who had «just followed orders.»

In the film, the «manager» of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work.

A deeply religious man filled with compassion but also not a little vanity, he finds himself confronted with terrible choices between his faith in God and the teachings of the church that interprets that faith.

The film, set in 1996, follows Tutu, played by Forest Whitaker (wearing a prosthetic nose that becomes less distracting as the strength of his performance becomes clear), as he finds himself confronting a man who seems unwilling to repent for his crimes and unworthy of forgiveness.

Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it.Hide

It's a shame, then, that Borte eventually places an increasingly prominent emphasis on elements of a decidedly melodramatic nature, as the various characters slow - but - surely find themselves confronted with problems and concerns of a decidedly soap opera-esque nature (ie the son grapples with his homosexuality, the daughter embarks on an affair with a married man, etc).

As she repeatedly postpones her return to America, Eilis finds herself confronting a terrible dilemma — a choice between two men and two countries.

On another timeline Black Panther would be building on the small triumphs of diversity and equality, but instead it finds itself confronting a reality in which the President of the United States is being endorsed by white supremacists.

DVD release date: 06/19/2018 Theatrical release: 03/23/2018 Language: English Genre: Drama / Horror MPAA rating: R Director: Steven Soderbergh Actors: Claire Foy, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins Plot: A young woman finds herself involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she finds herself confronting her greatest fear - but is this fear based in reality, or merely a product of her delusion?

There we find ourselves confronted with the kind of sequence that best characterises this movie.

He finds himself confronting not only the cruelty of Mother nature but also his own failings.

Miriam's journey — which finds her confronting her husband's supervisor (Eric Bana)-- is the weakest of the three but it still provides a nice counterbalance to the dramatic ocean action sequences.