Sentence examples for a confrontation for from inspiring English sources

Thus Washington avoids a confrontation, for now, with its closest ally.

Egypt's military has been locked in a confrontation for months with protesters who demand it immediately hand over power to civilians.

After Kierkegaard, to thinking Christians the scandal was of the essence — a confrontation, for "crisis theology," with the drastic otherness and unaccountability of God, on the far side of a leap of faith unaided by reason and propelled by human dread and despair.

"Anxious to avoid a confrontation, for Johnson was already hissing like a kettle coming to the boil, Mr. Hamilton promptly agreed with him, observing that having drunk three glasses, he was beginning to suffer from a headache," is the set up for one of Johnson's many ill-tempered encounters with the world.

The groundwork was laid for a confrontation of unprecedented proportions.

So it is not only the best game in the country, but it is also the revival of a grand rivalry, and a significant confrontation for the Big 12 Conference.

Yossi Gal, director general at the Israeli foreign ministry, said Israel had "no desire for a confrontation" but asked for the ship to dock at Ashdod, not Gaza.

We've been promised a final confrontation for Danny in next week's climax, presumably with the string-puller.

Finally, the United States is China's most important bilateral partner, and China seems unlikely to pursue a strategic confrontation for mere monetary gain.

Iran seemed headed for a confrontation between irreconcilables: the forces for secular democracy and those for autocratic theocracy.

That might make it an uglier confrontation, for sure.