#facing

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#death #extinction #facing #forests #life

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#college #daughter #day #debt #door

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#border #borders #cargo #conduct #customs

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american society #brave #civil #civil rights

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#career #elements #facing #funny #go

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#century #colour #direct #facing #last

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#fact #reality #life

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#difficult-times #facing-problems #failure #life

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. ↗

— George W. Bush

#america #cannot #clear #cloud #come

I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now. ↗

— Laura Bush

#convention #country #facing #hear #heard