0 causing strong or difficult feelings, especially in a way that creates thought or discussion: --
Now that closure methods using a catheter, like balloon angioplasty, are confronting common anomalies, they are occupying more of the energies of the pediatric cardiologist.
The importance of confronting constraints on autonomy in classroom settings is also an important theme in recent work on teacher autonomy (see section 5.4 below).
Confronting a policy without powerful, loyal supporters, they established conditions in which the adaptation of the political order of movie censorship could not longer occur.
The resulting character formation has, understandably, profound problems with confronting suppressed self blame.
At the beginning of the project, they were also insecure when dealing with the new ways, confronting as they did, years of inherited tradition.
How far child poverty can be ended and children's opportunities improved without confronting the broader inequalities in society is open to question.
Ethics means confronting the ambiguous and the obvious alike, without slavish dogma, especially from the left.
They argue that social processes are driven by people confronting pressure problems.
