(v. t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
(v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
(v. t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(3) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(5) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(6) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
(7) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(8) He said: "Advanced economies are still confronted with high levels of public and private debt, which act as brakes on the recovery.
(9) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(10) "The development control committee is frequently confronted with applications where developers have submitted viability assessment that show a development is only viable if affordable housing is greatly reduced often to a level of less than 20%," Hopkins said.
(11) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
(12) He confronted the conventional wisdom that time is on our side and the status quo is working in our favour.
(13) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
(14) The government needs to show the resolve to confront paramilitary criminality in our society and remove it, once and for all,” he said.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(16) Patient education and confrontation regarding noncompliance did not reduce major asthma episodes.
(17) Given the increasing incidence of AIDS and the frequency of haematological abnormalities in this condition, the practising clinician should have a high index of suspicion when confronted by any unexplained haematological abnormality.
(18) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
(19) When confronted with a case of dyspnoea, three questions must be asked: is the dyspnoea due to a pulmonary organic disease?
(20) It is hypothesized that more understanding and progress may come from an insightful review of the historical development of Canadian Mental Health Services and the goals of organized Psychiatry in Canada than will result from developing a defensive and confrontational attitude towards current events in the field.
Engage
Definition:
(v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
(v. t.) To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
(v. t.) To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
(v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
(v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
(v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
(v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
(v. i.) To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
(v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
(v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(2) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
(3) In this study we were engaged on the pharmacokinetics of fosfestrol (Honvan) after oral administration.
(4) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(7) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(8) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(9) Engagement in reminiscing may be stable during old age or may follow a developmental course.
(10) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(11) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(12) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(13) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(14) The findings may have a more general significance in relation to the site of engagement between processed antigen and MHC molecules in specialized antigen-presenting cells.
(15) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(16) Through cues or precues, attention was directed to one location of a multistimulus visual display and, while attention was so engaged, the identity of a stimulus located at a different position in the display was changed.
(17) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
(18) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(20) The patient was engaged in the magistraliter preparations of medicaments in a pharmacy.