1.   Authorities in the three largest Latin economies have confronted the crisis with relatively modest initial tactics, apparently hesitating before taking more painful moves, analysts said.

2.   His farm has weathered many calamities through the years, and though he has never confronted a crisis like this drought, he clings to a strand of hope.

3.   It is this elusive difference in spirit that allows one couple to confront a crisis with good-humored resilience, while another becomes fearful or angry.

4.   It seemed like desperation when he turned to his third son, Harlan, to confront the crisis.

5.   Now they have three days to confront a crisis unprecedented in the history of the American Catholic Church.

6.   Officials calculating the costs of treatment are confronting a crisis of unprecedented scale, and the way forward has yet to be hammered out.

7.   Such programs, Silber said, are essential to confronting the crisis he says is facing public education.

8.   The characters are highly strung people confronting crises, sometimes within a moral context.

9.   The French need to confront serious crises not only in their politics but in their changing demography, their economic choices, and their deepening social conflicts.

10.   The National Basketball Assn. has finally confronted the crisis in hoop haberdashery.