Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information. It is people s willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

Nothing else ultimately explains lenders immense willingness, in the boom up to 2006, to lower their credit standards on home mortgages, regulators willingness to let them do it, rating agencies willingness to rate mortgage securities highly, and investors willingness to gobble them up.

We need to confront this fear.

They talked about the willingness to say, I love you first, the willingness to do something where there are no guarantees, the willingness to breathe through waiting for the doctor to call after your mammogram.

I wanted to confront the boundaries of the citizen, self imposed and real, and confront the divide between privileged and public access to knowledge.

I didn't confront them.

Our capacity to do so must confront certain realities.

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New challenges confront us today.

That willingness does exist, despite the recent painful conflict, and we must and will continue to support those who display that willingness.

In short, we admire their willingness to play.

Argentina reiterates its willingness to undertake such negotiations.

As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

Political, security and economic challenges will continue to confront Iraq.

Yet another perspective stresses that Western willingness to engage the Soviet Union as much as confront it played a major role in how history turned out. Détente helped to keep the competition from spilling over into conflict as it exposed the Communist world to Western ideas of freedom and capitalism along with their benefits.

We also have to confront the serious degradation of the environment.

The Palestinian Authority needs all possible support to confront those challenges.

Developing a tool to confront illicit brokering is the next step forward.

We must seize this opportunity to show that we can confront terrorism.

Important initiatives have been undertaken to confront discrimination based on sexual orientation.

He reiterated his willingness to assist Governments in that respect.

And some of them will confront the others,

And some of them will confront the others,

It's also very difficult to confront a general with medals on his chest.

I was certain that I will confront my account.

I was certain that I will confront my account.

The Cuban delegation reiterated its willingness to support all actions to that end.

Photography can also compel us to confront issues that are potentially distressing and controversial.

Africa has demonstrated its willingness to deal with conflicts in the region.

We express our willingness to incorporate these issues into regional development policies.

Developing countries have also shown an increasing willingness to make contributions bilaterally.

A life without fear is built when we confront violence against women in all spheres and when we confront racism, recognizing the rights and autonomy of indigenous peoples.

By selecting his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, as his Secretary of State, and reaching across party lines to retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, he showed openness to strong subordinates. In his inaugural address, he sounded the themes of smart power a willingness to extend an open hand to those who unclench their fists but also stressed themes of responsibility as Americans confront sobering economic problems.

The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) had also expressed willingness to contribute to the research.

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

However, many States Parties have already indicated their willingness to volunteer such information.

The contingent commanders agreed and expressed their willingness to provide the necessary cooperation.

The letters recently addressed by Syria to the Security Council confirm that willingness to cooperate.

Her Majesty's Government is considering what further measures might be appropriate to confront the terrorist threat.

All parties have in principle indicated their willingness to continue this programme in 2005.

The Government has shown willingness to make progress in the political talks on Darfur.

Ecuador is ready to confront the challenges of stabilizing Haiti and endorses a multidimensional approach to peacekeeping operations.

It was therefore essential to mobilize women and men to confront the social norms that aggravated women's vulnerability.

Therefore, the United Nations as a whole should confront that vicious malady.

I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.