11.   These movies delve deeply into the predicaments confronting women at midlife.

12.   When Sauer confronts women who lied about their age, they defend their dissembling.

13.   Yet nothing close to the horror that confronted a woman when she opened the door that afternoon.

14.   Ito confronted both women with evidence of the covert communication, but they denied it, sources told the Times.

15.   Two men confronted the woman and her husband early Thursday, said police spokeswoman Venetia Harvey.

16.   When Superior Court Judge Lance Ito confronted both women with the note, they denied it, the Times reported.

17.   Witnesses said a man with a grenade confronted the woman, whom he appeared to know.

18.   With those issues either resolved or being negotiated, organizers had hoped to keep the spotlight in Beijing entirely on the issues confronting women.