confront someone with something

confront | American Dictionary

confront
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈfrʌnt/
to deal with a difficult problem, situation, or person:
He forced the country to confront the issue of deforestation.
When I took office, I was confronted with new guidelines.
Becca will have to confront some frightening truths about this disease.
To confront someone is to meet with a person with whom you disagree or whom you will accuse of something:
I had to confront him about the damage to the car.

Examples of confront

confront
It is usually bothersome to be confronted with statements about the supposed universal nature of a particular linguistic phenomenon.
Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
But even when we have such information of partial effects, we confront the difficulty of adding up all partial effects.
To grab hold of the certainty of experience, knowledge, or sensation is often difficult when confronting both sound and memory.
All these cases, however, were resolved by eliciting confessions from the suspects after confronting them with the evidence.
Like a message in a bottle, it forces the reader to journey across time, to confront an unmediated image of the eighteenth-century past.
This represented a dramatic moment of instantiation of both continuity and change of tradition for a community in the process of confronting change.
They extricate themselves from appalling conditions and bravely confront their villainous oppressors, while through coincidental circumstances they are elevated to a higher social position.
The first volume was published in 1907 and now we are confronted with the eighth.
He confronts their epistemological incapacity with the religious point of view based on the authority of revelation.
Informal workshops for police and youth were likewise arranged in order to foster awareness of the issues and concerns confronting each side.
An appreciation of narrative, however, should merely be an issue of confronting existing preconceptions.
They completely lack any apparatus suited to confronting phenomena of this order.
A further problem confronting all three of these initiatives has been that of external assistance.
When employers confronted unions directly, employers, especially industrial employers, generally won.
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