"Today, at last, the American people and our government have confronted the violence and come to the defense of the innocent child."

The government and people in the markets are confronting a much more difficult and complex policy agenda.

However much skepticism is warranted, the federal government has never confronted even the likelihood of such fiscal plenty.

Whether the government will confront the problem of neglect in a land whose economy is nose-diving and 300,000 college graduates cannot find jobs, is not clear.

Webb argued that the government must "confront the growing unfairness in this age of globalization."

If international humanitarianism is to preserve its legitimacy, both governments and private humanitarian organizations must confront critiques such as Maren's.

How do governments and societies confront new and transformative Internet technologies?

That is the complex of issues that governments must now confront, and they are getting stuck on the old barricades.

"That means that when the government confronts it, they think the problem's not too big."

The government confronted the global nuclear arms race by strong opposition to French testing in the Pacific.