confront

If you hear a voice before meeting the person, you can make a very accurate assessment of who you will be confronting when the meeting finally materialises.
Quand vous entendez la voix de quelqu'un avant de le rencontrer, vous pouvez vous faire une idée assez précise de la personne que vous aurez en face de vous.
Ladies and gentlemen, today we are also talking about the future, because within a year, Europeans will be confronting the greatest budgetary adjustment programme in living memory in each of our Member States.
Mesdames et Messieurs, aujourd'hui nous parlons aussi de l'avenir, parce que dans un an, les Européens seront confrontés au plus grand programme d'ajustement budgétaire de mémoire d'homme dans chacun de nos États membres.
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