The phrase "a confrontation in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific situation or context where a confrontation occurs, typically followed by a location or setting.
Example: "The news reported on a confrontation in a crowded marketplace that escalated quickly."
Alternatives: "an altercation in a" or "a clash in a".
Oberon has just reprimanded Puck for the mishegas with the eye-drops; the two spirits are having a confrontation, in a mild sense of the term.
It culminates in a confrontation in a bell tower that might well have left traces on the climax of Hitchcock's "Vertigo".
O. J. Simpson and his two co-defendants pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges stemming from a confrontation in a hotel room here on Sept. 13.
Zimmerman, who is in hiding, has insisted he acted in self-defence when he shot Martin, 17, during a confrontation in a gated community in Sanford, near Orlando.
A grand jury in Essex County, N.J., has declined to bring criminal charges against a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed banking executive from Atlanta last July during a confrontation in a park.
Updated, 5 31 p.m. | An armed suspect was fatally shot and a city police officer was shot in the arm in a confrontation in a subway station in Upper Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities said.
The wife's actions are too ambiguous, too anomalous and too easily denied by her for you to provoke a confrontation in an already shaky marriage.
On one occasion in New York, he said, Mr. Kennedy heard that two members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were being held captive on a Japanese whaling vessel after a confrontation in an Antarctic whale sanctuary.
"We don't want a confrontation in any way, and a lot is dependent on the Palestinians," General Mofaz said.
Many protesters contended that Mr. Mubarak was provoking a confrontation in order to prompt a military crackdown.
Mayor Rivera still faces a misdemeanor charge stemming from a confrontation in January with Luis Santana, a former welterweight boxing champion, at the home of Mr. Santana's girlfriend.
