Sentence examples for a larger confrontation from inspiring English sources

The police were ready for a larger confrontation.

Delay at this point could provoke a larger confrontation in June, when the institution must settle its annual budget.

The news reports said it was unclear if the cooperation with South Korea would also extend to military emergencies, like a larger confrontation on the Korean Peninsula.

"Today's murders are part of a larger confrontation, not between civilizations, no, but between civilization itself and those who are opposed to a civilized world," Kerry said.

Ultimately, the two parties averted a larger confrontation by a gentlemen's agreement to filibuster judicial nominees under only the most egregious circumstances, as when a nominee is overly partisan or obviously unqualified.

But as in the case of sanctions against North Korea, there is no authorization to board ships forcibly at sea, a step officials from many countries warned could touch off a larger confrontation.

It would have brought many more demonstrators to the house and put police officers, Elian, the family and others in danger of a larger, longer confrontation, he said.

However, given the likelihood that any military strike would set off a larger regional confrontation and threaten broader American strategic interests, the potential of an Israeli war with Iran would be extremely consequential from a US standpoint.

Dropping bombs on Libya, as Egypt has done, only raises the risk of a larger regional confrontation, and is bound to galvanise the very groups that such air raids claim to neutralise.

It also clears away another peripheral battle in the larger confrontation at the Capitol over Mr. Rowland, who is under federal investigation and faces an impeachment inquiry examining if he improperly helped steer state contracts to people who gave him gifts.

Some in the Congress had already been impatient with General George Washington, wanting a large, direct confrontation that might eliminate occupation forces but which Washington feared would probably lose the war.