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Confronted in sentence

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In addition to the poverty problem we were confronted with as the local urban poor, we were facing challenges due to our refugee status, such as a language barrier.
One of the questions that we've confronted is: What signals in the brain mediate the sensation of reward?
They have confronted the authority.
I believe we're at our best when we're confronted with big issues.
And so some time around 200,000 years ago, our species confronted this crisis.
In many countries, people are confronted with guns.
Ladies and gentlemen, looking at this gun, we are confronted with the ugly side of the human mind.
Now I was a little annoyed to be confronted with a lot of pink things, and having studied gender and spent countless hours teaching about it in workshops and classrooms, I thought I was pretty well versed on the social construction of gender and how sexism is a devaluing of the feminine and how it manifests both explicitly and implicitly.
And my hope is that when confronted with an opportunity to stand up for someone else, we all take action like Sarah, even when there's risk involved.
Never having been confronted with this type of situation before, we wanted to try and understand how we could tap into this incredible resource, how we could really leverage this incredible use of mobile technology and SMS technology.
Because we are confronted with a challenge.
Soon after my training, I found myself working first in Zimbabwe and then in India, and I was confronted by an altogether new reality.
He threw tennis balls to all the neighborhood dogs, analyzed the saliva, identified the dog, and confronted the dog owner.
It was an example of a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us without very much prying from the public, and then suddenly confronted with a public who is no longer content with that arrangement, and not only not content with it, now, more often, armed with official data itself.
These examples give new hope, new possibility to the problems I witnessed in Uganda or that my father confronted in Bihar.
We've gone from people who confronted a concrete world and analyzed that world primarily in terms of how much it would benefit them to people who confront a very complex world, and it's a world where we've had to develop new mental habits, new habits of mind.
See, the real problem here is that, while the algorithms work just fine, you and I don't, when confronted with blank windows where we're supposed to input our information online.
I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is terribly difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.
Because sooner or later, we'll be confronted with decisions about this, and it's better if we think hard about it, even if we want to think hard about reasons why we should never do it.
With this knowledge, these teenagers as skaters confronted the city.
But as a result, they are themselves confronted with this same freedom that others have to value or disvalue them.
I've been in Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan in the '90s, but it was with American soldiers in 2007, 2008, that I was confronted with very intense combat.
Third thing that Howard did, and perhaps the most important, is Howard confronted the notion of the Platonic dish.
I'm painfully aware that there has been an increase in discrimination against Muslims in recent years in countries like the U.K. and the U.S., and that too is a matter of grave concern, but I firmly believe that telling these counter-stereotypical stories of people of Muslim heritage who have confronted the fundamentalists and been their primary victims is also a great way of countering that discrimination.
Mr. Teszler went down to the plant and confronted the thief and said, "But why do you steal from me?
He was inspired by the stoic philosophers, and he confronted the brutal facts of his circumstances while maintaining a faith that he would prevail in the end.
Scientists measured the electrical activity from the brain as students confronted an error.
If you keep on being confronted with suffering, you might have empathic distress, burnout, so you need the greater sphere of loving-kindness.
And he was confronted by this scene: a line of coffins coming down a hill, relatives wailing.
So next time you're confronted with an interesting challenge, remember what design has to teach us.
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