We want to be confronted with things that are original, surprising, difficult, and provocative.
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In fact, the following approach can apply to just about any sales process you might be confronted with.
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"Next month, in wards across the country, people will be confronted with the same choice, " Mr Clegg said.
And then, be confronted with someone who would tear it down by false testimony, by lies under oath.
Instead of "socially responsible investment, " we might be confronted with money that refuses to let itself be spent.
He said the crisis "should be confronted with consistency and confidence, without bowing to the nervousness of the markets".
The new government will immediately be confronted with whether or not to put more tax-payer's money into the troubled banks.
Baby boomers planning for retirement will be confronted with financial challenges that are much different than those of their predecessors.
Walk into any store and you might be confronted with his benign-hawk-like visage staring at you behind his black-framed glasses.
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Chaudhry went to Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, only to be confronted with a counter-demonstration organized by a pro-government party intent on disrupting his appearance.
In my opinion, some of the challenges that young female graduates seem to be confronted with are also due to female-male stereotypes, negative attitudes and behaviors toward each other.
After all, it could be healthy for managers to be confronted with a map of their own communication islands and the embarrassingly large oceans of silence that sometimes separate them from their underlings.
It would only make clean-up during a crisis much more difficult, because rather than facing fewer banks of higher visibility, investors would be confronted with a galaxy of smaller, lower-visibility banks in the process of imploding.
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Whether the greatest problem emerges from the Russian executive or legislative branches, there should be little doubt that the United States and its allies will shortly be confronted with a slew of serious new challenges from Moscow -- and must adjust its policies and personnel accordingly.
But even if you are looking for something with more of a pulse, you will rarely be confronted down south with ranks of sun loungers.
They both agreed that if they were pictured in the same frame, there would be those, confronted with their contrasting skin tones, who would falsely assume that the white producer must be the real mastermind behind the black musician's music.
Another reason may be that doctors, confronted with a bold-print, boxed warning, do heed its advice.
Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.
Virtually unremarked in the extensive coverage accorded these controversies, however, is the quantum difference between the choices facing Israelis and those that would be available to the American public if confronted with a similar danger of chemical attack.
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With three of the country's banks now nationalized and their market caps reduced to zero, the OMXI15, an index tracking Iceland's 15 biggest shares, had to be recalculated, so some traders were confronted with a startling 76.0% drop in leading shares.
Mr Bernanke may be forced to sit on his hands until he is confronted with a crisis.
We may not be faced with the level of wrenching emotional difficulty that confronted Lincoln on a daily basis.
When confronted with a great idea, your reaction should be to scrupulously analyze its commercial potential in the context of your own ability to transform that potential into triumph.
Confronted with intractable difficulties, the most sensible thing to do may be to toss the past aside and improvise.
"We say that confronted with terrorism, yesterday as today and tomorrow, there will be no negotiation, no blackmail, no let-up in the fight against terrorism, " said Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Said Belaid.
The reason "Dear" may be destined to die is that it faces a dilemma much like an army confronted with a pincers movement in war: On the one flank, written-on-paper, mailed letters -- the kind that have always been started with "Dear" -- are rapidly disappearing, as use of the U.S. mail itself dwindles.
Confronted with the facts, Bassoul shrugs, adding that his line will be less expensive and more appealing.
As the trials progressed, Koreans were confronted with the question of how much the sins of the past should be judged by the standards of the present.
And so, instead of being confronted with a sudden crisis that prompts real change, South Africa appears to be drifting - sustained by an expanding middle class and buoyant local economy - while the water in the pot keeps getting steadily hotter.
"Even if we are confronted with a problem, we must remember that the selection of a leader must be a democratic process, " Information Minister and government spokesman Mike Mulongoti said.
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