Though lighter to wear, silk is not as durable as velvet, particularly when confronted with thousands of embroidery stitches. |
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When most people are confronted with a problem, their instinct is to impose limits, get the problem under some kind of control. |
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When the mayor is confronted with a problem or disagreement, his first instinct is to either fire someone or sue someone. |
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Far worse was being confronted with a live specimen, which sat hairily and heavily on my palm. |
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He reacted by demanding that he should not be confronted with an ultimatum. |
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It showed how short the collective memory is when confronted with economic difficulties. |
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Entering, you are confronted with what appears to be a blow-up of a Seventies newsprint photograph of a star. |
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The young couple she confronted with this information today seemed bemused and uncertain how to react. |
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The mind boggles when confronted with issues such as income tax law, health service regulations, social welfare entitlements and family law. |
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The viewer is first confronted with a painting depicting a large telephone. |
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Despite global condemnation, the international community continues to be confronted with practices analogous to slavery. |
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In her analysis we are confronted with the longstanding problem of whether we can use the epics to understand the Mycenaeans, and if so, how. |
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At this point the West appeared to be confronted with a united communist front covering most of the Eurasian land mass. |
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But these efforts have been confronted with the difficulties which usually present themselves in such cases. |
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Here we are confronted with the first of many social dilemmas which are to figure in the young Carver's life. |
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When we are confronted with massive natural disasters, our own feelings of inadequacy are almost inevitable. |
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A center not only is confronted with that, but he also must determine if blocking assignments need to change before he snaps the ball. |
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Now, you get into court, you're confronted with cops perjuring themselves and jailhouse snitches saying you confessed all to them in your cell. |
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When confronted with this argument, many leftists fall back on what seems an untenable position. |
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When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape. |
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The first time he is confronted with the sheer bulk of the super size meal, Spurlock is genuinely amazed. |
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That confronted with the comparable images and ideas they could not create a comparable bricolage? |
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Public policy encourages surgeons to innovate when confronted with a problem, emergency or elective, for which there is no consensus solution. |
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When confronted with a waffle for the first time, Sugar sniffs delicately and digests a tiny nibble. |
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It's hard not to be curious when confronted with a concept album about witches. |
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It took me just one step out to be confronted with piercing wind and the black hostile waves of the North Sea a mere hundred yards away. |
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She realized she had lost the companionable Nick and was once again confronted with the strange, quiet, and somewhat frightening, angry Nick. |
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Occasionally, when confronted with unusual symptoms or signs that are refractory to standard therapy, referral may be indicated. |
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Ophthalmologists are occasionally confronted with an individual presenting with nyctalopia. |
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We were just confronted with this very pert young lady screaming blue murder on her front building site. |
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Instead, we are confronted with definitive declarations, even regarding the most perplexing of texts. |
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Today the world is confronted with Pax Americana on a most insidious scale. |
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In the midst of luxury, abundance, and indeed waste, what can be our proper response when confronted with the poverty Kapuscinski describes? |
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Going to investigate, we're confronted with a man in a bowler hat and suit sitting at a keyboard looking rather like a waxwork. |
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These traits are adaptively advantageous when people are confronted with suffering, illness, or death, which is inevitable with advancing age. |
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He softens his heart a little and puts his prejudices aside when confronted with his past on Christmas. |
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Tucker found that when confronted with patent trolls, start-ups often had to resort to layoffs or abandon projects. |
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Millions of shoppers are now completely owled out, confronted with a parliament of owls on every shelf in every shop. |
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She was still whimpering with pain when we arrived but incredibly we were confronted with a pay and display car park! |
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The poem outlined his experience of being gender-fluid and sprang from being confronted with old photos at his grandparents' house. |
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Visiting Ben's apartment for the first time, Lindsey is confronted with an Aladdin's cave of Red Sox towels, mugs, bed sheets and boxer shorts. |
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At hatch, the emerging nauplius is usually confronted with very high salinities. |
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In sum, confronted with two pornographic works, the King's Bench punished the forgiving one and forgave the punitive one. |
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But more generally we are confronted with the issue of deficit spending by the federal government. |
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Had she not been confronted with it even once during the course of the day, selling countless dozens of pottles? |
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I was confronted with teachers I psychically sensed didn't believe what they were teaching. |
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So when confronted with a hill, elephants prefer to take a detour along level terrain, the researchers conclude. |
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I was constantly confronted with my own weaknesses, my hunger, my low tolerance for pain. |
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Thirty years later he is still embarrassed or diffident every time he is confronted with even a simple practical task. |
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Cardiac rate may be a relatively nonspecific indicator of appetitive or aversive arousal in animals confronted with salient valanced stimuli. |
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In parasitoids, the presence of conspecific females should modify decisions of females confronted with already-parasitized hosts. |
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Even the most arrhythmic Luddite has to cheer up when suddenly confronted with the Dr Who theme. |
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Whenever a major disaster strikes, the public is confronted with all sorts of unpleasantness. |
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They were pretty useless when confronted with the high-pitched whine of the rotor's gears directly above our heads. |
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These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense. |
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When confronted with a risk, an entrepreneur weighs the costs and benefits, decides which route makes sense, and takes action. |
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It occurs when a susceptible person is confronted with a stressful situation, etc. |
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When confronted with an empty tomb in our lives, do we look at the hopefulness of the situation or do we look at the dismalness of the situation? |
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Of course I didn't want to open my eyes and be confronted with that loudness so I pretended to stay asleep. |
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She realised that now, confronted with this vast expanse of lovely, beautiful space. |
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As an expat American in the UK I get confronted with the lowball figures all the time. |
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Gamblers, and most civilians as well, are continually confronted with predicaments posed by uncertainty and chance. |
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If confronted with a disturbance or disruption, simply cover the cage with the blanket to give the bird a feeling of security. |
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Late night chefs in my house have two options when confronted with the daunting task of moving a hot pan from the stove to the countertop. |
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Our family has thus been confronted with the awesome effects of a single gene. |
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No amount of accessorising can bring you out of the style challenge you would be confronted with by donning these in daylight. |
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Instead I was confronted with a grimy-looking building with billboards covering the windows and obscuring the interior. |
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You would think that confronted with such an open-and-shut case of missed opportunities, Peacock would immediately comply with Parks's request. |
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Now, confronted with the manifoldness of the objects of the world, Aristotle advanced his famous ten categories. |
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I always found myself embarrassed when confronted with pictures of scraggy or sagging wives and overfed, grinning offspring. |
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I can see that, confronted with two intruders in the middle of the night, you might lift a weapon in panic. |
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Then we were confronted with a friendly and professional lady who, after sending us to the cash desk, accepted our applications. |
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When confronted with the police report, he rebutted with a counter-accusation that surprised the two officials supervising the interview. |
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In relationships they may be confronted with their unresolved personal issues. |
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Better to watch a thief fence his swag than open the Australian magazine and be confronted with the geriatric dribbles of an incontinent mind. |
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The clinician is often confronted with microcytic anemia in a population with a higher prevalence of thalassemias. |
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When confronted with the reality of a shabby and hostile England unlike the England of her dreams, she is utterly horrified. |
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Having decided to return to a 100 percent gold dollar, we are confronted with the problem of how to go about it. |
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Since nude-coloured sheers, however fine, have been outlawed, we are confronted with what else to do about coverage. |
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We rounded a corner, and were confronted with some stomach-turning reality. |
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We journalists become terribly vulnerable when confronted with potential stories that we desperately and unquenchably desire to be true, despite evidence to the contrary. |
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Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge. |
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When confronted with those distributions, many of us probably reason that some species indeed are dispersed over a wide area on the wintering grounds. |
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I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. |
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When confronted with food concerns, from pesticide residues to the environmental damage wreaked by salmon farming, the government doesn't want to know. |
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The meaning of the past changes as different individuals and groups are confronted with new situations that demand a temporal reintegration of experience. |
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In all these episodes, Moscow was confronted with popular, democratic revolutions against its domination. |
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And that's more or less what University of Alberta student union reps were confronted with last Friday when they came to work to find a blank wall where a mural used to be. |
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You would have been confronted with the dull thud of abstract nouns and adjectives sprinkled about like chocolate chips on the chocolate icing of a chocolate cake. |
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It was only when confronted with the loathing so many on the left feel for him that I discovered how much there was to admire in the doughty old demagogue. |
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She found out on her first day on the job in 1941, when confronted with two bodies laid out on gleaming white porcelain tables. |
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And then when they arrive in Kerry, their problems are compounded as they're confronted with confused and disjointed signage that could send them astray for another hour. |
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He also wanted to help the harried home cook who might suddenly find himself confronted with a lack of meal ideas. |
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O'Donnell's first instinct when confronted with accusations of shady finances has been to allege a high-up conspiracy. |
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The heart and soul of the movie is Alan, a shy Texan teetotaller who's confronted with a display of bacchanalian excess that would've impressed Caligula. |
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Even if people think that the Iraq war has made Britain a bigger target, they are still confronted with a fascistic cult of murder and self-murder which allows no compromise. |
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When confronted with a decision to take sides among two conflicting parties, it is always better to be fully devoted to one side than to be neutral. |
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These northern towns were once touristically or agriculturally successful, but today they are confronted with growing identification and economic problems. |
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Anyone over the age of twenty is occasionally confronted with the ignorance of today's youth of some phenomenon that was utterly ordinary when we were their age. |
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He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney. |
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He and his colleagues in the Tadcaster Fraud Squad were confronted with a mound of paperwork, huge piles of loose papers, all of which had to be read and understood. |
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I rubbed the scratch cards in anticipation of an imminent windfall, and was confronted with a kaleidoscope of shamrocks, lucky horse shoes and four-leaf clovers. |
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Second, quantum theory had become the bizarre world of quantum mechanics in which causality collapses and classical physics finds itself confronted with unscaleable barriers. |
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Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality. |
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And who knows, maybe one of these Republicans, confronted with evidence of their privatization enthusiasm, will commit one. |
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From a distance the viewer is confronted with a burnt sienna cube the size of a large hut, the exterior of which is theatrically lit by two spotlights. |
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And yet when confronted with a bona fide epidemic in its southern desert, Arizona has chosen to punt. |
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But until very recently, even Western societies often recoiled when confronted with a powerful woman in a position of authority. |
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When confronted with charges that Teilhard was a pantheistic heretic, however, the papal nuncio in Paris at the time, Angelo Roncalli, pushed the accusations aside. |
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Just days before his resignation, Driscoll had been confronted with the results of the investigation by church elders. |
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Climbing the stairs to the upper room you are confronted with The Great Outdoors, a painting with a brave composition of a figure offset to one side of an infinite blue sky. |
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At a certain point it is confronted with the fact that it is a claim on surplus value and this surplus value has to be actually extracted from the working class. |
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However, this is true any time a suspect confesses after being confronted with inadmissible evidence, and it does not necessarily render the confession involuntary. |
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We certainly aren't confronted with the problem in our day-to-day lives. |
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Now we are confronted with the problem of knowing what primroses to grow. |
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First, the mentally ill are confronted with the problem of dealing with the disturbing and potentially debilitating symptoms of a mental or emotional disorder. |
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Profound Self-Confidence is exemplified when a child is confronted with a difficult task and his first response is the certainty that he can accomplish it. |
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Like many ethical issues, the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship sounds straightforward until you are confronted with difficult cases. |
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In this work, the viewer is confronted with images of various cityscapes. |
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In my experience these patients do not do well when suddenly confronted with a t-piece trial or its CPAP equivalent. |
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After the initial flurry of fossicking the prospectors were confronted with the task of extracting the gold from lodes. |
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France was immediately confronted with the beginnings of the decolonisation movement. |
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While scrap tire processors are confronted with an array of end markets, a cleaner shred is almost always tantamount to marketability. |
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The celebrity was stunned to find herself confronted with unfounded allegiations on the front page of a newspaper. |
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Would that mean she was a vampire? Weren't vampires reflectionless? Mirrors appeared blank when confronted with a vampire. |
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However, Rome was militarily confronted with the rising Sassanid Empire and growing incursions from the tribes of Germania. |
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In addition to physical hazards, Piot was also confronted with the cross-cultural politics of global health. |
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By the spring of 1936, the management of the New York Philharmonic was confronted with a problem. |
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In its dramas, people emerge as victims of forces larger than themselves, as individuals confronted with a rapidly accelerating world. |
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What hypocrites will be confronted with, in return for their hypocrisy, is a grievesome torment, both in this world and beyond. |
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When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the problem of cultural relativism. |
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American law has been known to go a little nutso when confronted with sports issues. |
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Planners are confronted with myriad threats and vulnerabilities epitomized by North Korea's nuclearization and natural disasters, respectively. |
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Even my Judy, a snuggly little snoozer of a cat, could be quite cunning when confronted with a carrier and a trip to the vet. |
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Augustine, they are then confronted with hostilities of the English navy. |
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It was while I was doing this with the dankness of the canal close by and HGVs roaring overhead that I was confronted with the idea that could not be resisted. |
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When the interviewees were confronted with the comparative results of the study conducted by the International Work Bureau, they were consternated, offensive. |
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At the outset the committee was confronted with considerable cynicism, on the part of Canadian Forces personnel, with respect to what could be accomplished on their behalf. |
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Private parturients are unlikely to be enamoured by state hospitals, and the already busy state facilities will be confronted with an increased workload of demanding patients. |
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With the outbreak of World War I, the ICRC found itself confronted with enormous challenges that it could handle only by working closely with the national Red Cross societies. |
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As math professors at California State University, Northridge, we have been confronted with policies and ideologies which mediocritize K-12 mathematics education. |
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When confronted with violence and discrimination in the period of Jim Crow, their response often reinforced racist and even eugenicist discourse instead of challenging it. |
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But as we approached the visitor centre to be confronted with shadowy figures huddled up in kagouls, we decided to cut our losses and head for home. |
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But as we approached the visitor centre, to be confronted with shadowy figures huddled up in kagouls, we decided to cut our losses and head for home. |
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Deprived of foreign aid and confronted with the collapse of central-government spending, Zaireans are tying to cope by mobilising regional and private funds. |
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Arriving in Tokyo by train, for example, visitors are confronted with a vision of domestic intimacy that would make most Western suburbanites seriously claustrophobic. |
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I was confronted with that question on a crisp morning last month on Coldwater Pool, a riffly, copper-tinted stretch of the Miramichi River owned by Wilson's Sporting Camps. |
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The translation appeared in 1726, but this time, confronted with the arduousness of the task, he enlisted the help of William Broome and Elijah Fenton. |
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The problems that we may find ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure ourselves. |
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In 1817 Southey was confronted with the surreptitious publication of a radical play, Wat Tyler, which he had written in 1794 at the height of his radical period. |
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Unlike a delusional psychotic person, the pseudologue will abandon the story or change it if confronted with contradictory evidence or sufficient disbelief. |
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