Confront example sentences

The colonisers appear heroic and honourable – confronting 'native' peoples and strange surroundings, adapting to native life as well as changing it, colonising territories and then developing nations there.We need to look at these variations and strands to understand the diverse ways in which peasants and farmers confronted the modern world.Confrontative action against the stressor (figureht) or withdrawal from the threatening event (flight) are two general categories of behavioural responses.People who procrastinate are deliberately avoiding confronting their fears of failure or rejection.The anti-imperial movements that developed everywhere were nationalist, in the sense that they all struggled to form independent nation-states, and were inspired by a sense of collective national unity, forged in confrontation with imperialism.People with high levels of social support from family and friends may experience less stress when they confront a stressful experience, and they may cope with it more successfully.The organism makes efforts to cope with the threat, as through confrontation.