enfrentarse a

v.

to face, to breast, to brave, to confront with.

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(v.) = be faced with, come to + grips with, confront, face, face up to, meet, cope with, get to + grips with, clash with, grapple with, wrestle with, get + a grip on, go + head-to-head with, be up against, come up against, run up against, line up against, brave, breast, have + a go at, address, engage in + confrontation with

Ex. The indexer is faced with the choice of which off the themes of the document to provide access to via an index.

Ex. Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.

Ex. Resource sharing in libraries may be a way of confronting the impact of rising prices dictated by a few large publishing corporations.

Ex. Hungary faces far-reaching socio-economic transformation which will inevitably affect libraries as well.

Ex. Together we need to face up to the challenges of the Information Age.

Ex. There may be a threat of over-capacity; if so, this could be met by diversification, an enlargement of the SLIS role.

Ex. This latter period is when the air-conditioning has to work hardest to cope with high outside air temperature and solar gains through the building.

Ex. The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.

Ex. The date of the book fair must be fitted into the school program so that it does not clash with any rival local or national event.

Ex. Researchers have long grappled with predicting the readability of reading materials for children.

Ex. Librarians believe they will have to wrestle with limited opportunities for career advancement = Los bibliotecarios piensan que tendrán que hacer frente a oportunidades limitadas para su promoción profesional.

Ex. The article 'Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.

Ex. We went head-to-head with those that wanted a uniform look for the whole library Website! = Nos enfrentamos a aquellos que querían un aspecto uniforme en el diseño de todo el sitio web de la biblioteca.

Ex. British exporters have been up against tariff and non-tariff barriers all over the world for a very long time.

Ex. We have come up against the extreme expense which change brings to an existing catalog.

Ex. Some of the information from the EEC Government in Brussels is provided off the record, which sometimes runs up against the UK Government's wall of secrecy.

Ex. The author examines claims by Microsoft's Bill Gates that networked computers have no future, and looks at the opposition lining up against him.

Ex. The mammoth hunters braved sub-zero temperatures on desolate tundra at least 20000 years earlier than was thought.

Ex. He has breasted an extraordinary amount of obloquy on behalf of our country's cause.

Ex. In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.

Ex. The inclusion of vendors and publishers allows everyone to address sticky business relationships head-on.

Ex. By running away he shows who he is -- a boneless coward who never engaged in direct confrontation with the enemy.

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(v.) = be faced with, come to + grips with, confront, face, face up to, meet, cope with, get to + grips with, clash with, grapple with, wrestle with, get + a grip on, go + head-to-head with, be up against, come up against, run up against, line up against, brave, breast, have + a go at, address, engage in + confrontation with

Ex: The indexer is faced with the choice of which off the themes of the document to provide access to via an index.

Ex: Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.

Ex: Resource sharing in libraries may be a way of confronting the impact of rising prices dictated by a few large publishing corporations.

Ex: Hungary faces far-reaching socio-economic transformation which will inevitably affect libraries as well.

Ex: Together we need to face up to the challenges of the Information Age.

Ex: There may be a threat of over-capacity; if so, this could be met by diversification, an enlargement of the SLIS role.

Ex: This latter period is when the air-conditioning has to work hardest to cope with high outside air temperature and solar gains through the building.

Ex: The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.

Ex: The date of the book fair must be fitted into the school program so that it does not clash with any rival local or national event.

Ex: Researchers have long grappled with predicting the readability of reading materials for children.

Ex: Librarians believe they will have to wrestle with limited opportunities for career advancement = Los bibliotecarios piensan que tendrán que hacer frente a oportunidades limitadas para su promoción profesional.

Ex: The article 'Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.

Ex: We went head-to-head with those that wanted a uniform look for the whole library Website! = Nos enfrentamos a aquellos que querían un aspecto uniforme en el diseño de todo el sitio web de la biblioteca.

Ex: British exporters have been up against tariff and non-tariff barriers all over the world for a very long time.

Ex: We have come up against the extreme expense which change brings to an existing catalog.

Ex: Some of the information from the EEC Government in Brussels is provided off the record, which sometimes runs up against the UK Government's wall of secrecy.

Ex: The author examines claims by Microsoft's Bill Gates that networked computers have no future, and looks at the opposition lining up against him.

Ex: The mammoth hunters braved sub-zero temperatures on desolate tundra at least 20000 years earlier than was thought.

Ex: He has breasted an extraordinary amount of obloquy on behalf of our country's cause.

Ex: In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.

Ex: The inclusion of vendors and publishers allows everyone to address sticky business relationships head-on.

Ex: By running away he shows who he is -- a boneless coward who never engaged in direct confrontation with the enemy.