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confront

to confront
Werkwoord
  • aan het gezicht onttrekken
  • oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"
"The two enemies finally confronted each other"

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to confront
Werkwoord
  • plaatsen tegenover
  • oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"
"The two enemies finally confronted each other"

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to confront
Werkwoord
  • (rivieroevers, kaden enz.) van een rechtopstaande wand voorzien tegen afkabbeling, uitspoeling en instorting
  • oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"
"The two enemies finally confronted each other"

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to confront
Werkwoord
    • present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
    "We confronted him with the evidence"

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    to confront
    Werkwoord
      • be face to face with
      "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

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      to confront
      Werkwoord
        • deal with (something unpleasant) head on
        "You must confront your problems"

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        Voorbeeldzinnen

        1. I didn't confront Tom.
        2. A soldier often has to confront danger.
        3. His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs.
        4. In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
        5. In Ankara, I made clear that the United States is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
        6. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
        7. fight against poverty diseases targeting the major communicable diseases such as laid down in the European Programme for action to confront HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, in particular:
        8. As globalisation continues to confront the European Union with new challenges, each citizen will need a wide range of key competences to adapt flexibly to a rapidly changing and highly interconnected world.
        9. ‘That is why no arrangements to soften the blow have been made under national law to confront a situation of default on the part of the commune’; ‘The State cannot offload its obligation to implement judicial decisions by invoking the absence of funds or the autonomy of regional or local authorities — an autonomy that it has not been able to guarantee to date, since the commune is in no position to pay its debts. The applicants therefore denounce the State’s incapacity to adopt positive measures that would have enabled the commune to contribute in accordance with its obligation’.