Sentence examples for a future confrontation from inspiring English sources

It foreshadows a future confrontation.

This sets up a future confrontation: it will be very hard for progressives to raise taxes, but also very hard for conservatives to cut those social programs.

So are the foundations for a future confrontation between advocates of the communitarian "moral economy" and the market model of the past 30 years being laid?

One thing is not in dispute, said Rubin, the former defense official: As the two sides contemplate a future confrontation, Iron Dome will be at the heart of their planning.

Whether Davros will ultimately atone for his sins remains to be seen, but now the old rascal's back to full health (or as close as he gets to it, anyway) a future confrontation seems inevitable.

A bigger navy will give India the means with which to defend its own expanding energy imports and perhaps to exert leverage in a future confrontation by threatening China's.

The package includes dozens of fighter jets, which could be used in any future confrontation with a nuclear-armed Iran.An American hiker was freed by Iran after a year in jail.

It is vital to the Asian economic miracle centred on China.Hawks in Delhi who are suspicious of Chinese long-term aims say bluntly that India and its friends will acquire some sway over China only once the Andamans are treated as a "chokepoint", a place to disrupt Chinese trade in the event of any future confrontation.

Several officers involved said Adm. William J. Fallon, the head of Central Command, had joined in that effort because he was worried about having enough forces in reserve to handle contingencies elsewhere, presumably including any future confrontation with Iran.

The Qassam Brigades declined a Guardian request for an interview, but last month a military leader going by the name of Abu Hamza told the Hamas-linked al-Khaleej Online: "In any future confrontation, Israelis will be surprised by the strength and solidity of these tunnels, which can withstand Israeli shelling and concussion bombs fired by the Israeli aircraft or tanks".

"They are closing the qualitative gap," said the outgoing head of the home front command, Major-General Eyal Eizenberg, warning darkly that, in any future confrontation, Hizbullah would launch "between 1,000 and 1,500 rockets daily".Hizbullah has long cast itself as the leading force of resistance against Israel, but it is now fighting fellow Arabs in Syria and Iraq.