Sentence examples for a previous confrontation from inspiring English sources

CBS had already been slammed down in a previous confrontation with cable operators in 1993, when its previous owner, Laurence W. Tisch, tried to get cash for its broadcast signals.

"As soon as the police put on their gas masks, I knew that they were coming on us," said a 66-year-old woman who gave her name only as Tulin, and who showed the bruises on her legs from a previous confrontation with the police.

NEW YORK An article on Saturday about a previous confrontation the 73-year-old woman who was raped in Central Park said she had with her attacker referred incorrectly to the authority of a park ranger, to whom the woman said she had reported the initial encounter after she said she saw the man masturbating in the park.

It appears that the dispute did not originate at the party but stemmed from a previous confrontation, Det.

In his first appearance in King of Fighters '94, Rugal is shown wearing red formal clothes and with his right eye covered, having lost it in a previous confrontation.

In this model, 'what individuals know' is not limited to their cognitive awareness of facts; it also includes perspectival or partial understandings (such as lay epidemiology), unconscious emotional urges (such as the desire to please an authority figure), and past experiences (such as a previous confrontation over 'bad' test results).

In all previous confrontations between elected authority and concentrated financial power in the United States, the democratic element has prevailed (see chapter 1 in 13 Bankers; also Monday's WSJ, behind the paywall).

LeChuck exonerates Guybrush by implicating himself in the creation of the pox, and produces evidence that all previous confrontations between Guybrush and LeChuck had been orchestrated by the Voodoo Lady; the two are imprisoned, and Guybrush is released.

Ammon Bundy, whose father became a folk hero among rightwing constitutionalists after his previous confrontation with federal authorities in Nevada, appeared to be a key figure.

Their previous confrontation in November 2012 produced an open-ended written agreement that stipulated that the parties would turn to Cairo with any disputes.

"There was no previous confrontation with the teacher," Maqsoud said.