confronted with
Synonyms
Examples
We only think when confronted with a problem.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.