The attack occurred in Kabardino-Balkaria,a republic in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, where authorities have been confronting an Islamist insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know.

这风险源自于以下事实,即哲学就是让我们面对自己熟知的事物,然后引导并动摇我们原有的认知。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This is what I'll be proposing over the course of this lecture: that memory is a problem that Paradise Lost is continually confronting.

这就是我在这堂课上准备谈论的：,即记忆是《失乐园》这部作品始终要对抗的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Defending the government's approach to Afghanistan, Armed forces minister Bill Rammell says confronting the Taliban in Afghanistan keeps the streets of Britain safer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

He's simultaneously confronting the fear of heights, snakes, and the dark because he's trapped in that thing and the logic is--the logic of--the logic is not bad.

他同时面对着高空，蛇,以及黑暗所带来的恐惧,因为他被困在了那个地方,这样的逻辑看上去没什么错。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Only about 2,000 survived. For years, France has had difficulty confronting its wartime past.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

We are confronting the greatest economic crisis since World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

He says the threat of terrorism cannot be completely eliminated but the dual strategy of decapitating the leadership and confronting its ideology will limit its effectiveness in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Confronting the economic downturn and preventing it from boosting hemispheric poverty rates will be urgent priorities at the Summit of the Americas, according U.S.Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs,Tom Shannon.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

"Students are stepping up and leading in unprecedented ways and for every obstacle you can come up with there is a student group really confronting that obstacle in ways that can be adapted to other settings,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"If we are serious about confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran, we have got to use all of the economic and diplomatic tools at our disposal to focus pressure on that country and its leadership to cause them to stop pursuing their plans to become a nuclear power,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20