Sentence examples for a fierce confrontation from inspiring English sources

The announcement will set off a fierce confrontation with Congress over an issue that has riven American society for decades.

To Neil Lennon, an Old Firm game can still prompt vivid recollections of what it is to play in this fixture, to be at the heart of what is often nothing more than a fierce confrontation.

Moreover, Lebanon is a battleground for a fierce confrontation between the US and its regional allies, on the one hand, and Iran-Syria and their local friends, on the other.

Depardieu also starred in Pialat's last film, "Le Garçu," in which the director depicts himself (albeit played by Depardieu as a character named Gérard) as father and as son, a fierce confrontation with old and new worlds.

Since the early days of the rebellion, the square has been the center of a fierce confrontation with the authoritarian state.

Mr. Noone seems to be under the impression that the audience will nod off if each and every scene doesn't boil to a moment of fierce confrontation.

His blunt private comments on Carter, whom he regarded as a bungling amateur, reached Washington, and there was a fierce personal confrontation in Vienna.

But inside the Century, where a typical evening is spent dissecting literary portrayals of Victorian England and rising sea levels in Antarctica, the subject quickly became grist for a fierce intellectual confrontation.

The fierce confrontation on Capitol Hill over an issue that has divided Americans for decades is likely to continue, but any legislation that may ultimately pass probably would be far more modest than the measures Obama had championed.

Power struggles in China have a habit of going hand-in-hand with street protests (the Tiananmen Square unrest in 1989 broke out amid fierce confrontation at the top).

The relatively fierce confrontation served both the settlers and the government, creating heroes among the settlers and allowing the government to show to the world that removing the nearly 80,000 settlers who live beyond the separation barrier would not be an easy task.