7 sentences with 'confront'
Example sentences and phrases with the word confront and other words derived from it.
• « The Holocaust was one of the great traumas associated with the Second World War. It forced the Western world to confront the fact that a highly advanced and "civilised" nation in the heart of Europe - Germany - had been responsible not only for initiating a horrific and bloody war, but for carrying out the systematic murder of millions of completely innocent people. »
• « US President John F. Kennedy was a hard-line anti-communist, a "cold warrior", and believed it was important to confront the Soviets symbolically and, if necessary, militarily. »
• « As described in the last chapter, Cuba was caught at the centre of the most dangerous nuclear confrontation in history, in part because the USSR was willing to directly confront American interests. »
• « Europeans were forced to confront the idea of cultural and racial diversity in a way that was entirely new to them (in contrast to countries like the United States, which has always been very racially diverse after the European invasions of the early modern period). »
• « The government of Buenos Aires decided to organise a squadron to confront the Montevideo squadron. »
• « From then on, and from there, the troops of the Viceroy of Peru tried repeatedly to penetrate the current Argentinean territory, but they were prevented from doing so by the tenacious and intelligent defensive action opposed by Güemes. For six years and until his death in 1821, this distinguished man from Salta managed to successfully confront the enemy, now commanded by José de La Serna. »
• « But the deconcentration of the Army of the Andes should only be initial and maintained for part of the crossing, since the various columns into which the bulk of the troops would be divided would act in such a combined way as to meet at a certain point in Chilean territory and there confront a divided enemy. »