Sentence examples for a prolonged confrontation from inspiring English sources

The result was a prolonged confrontation.

But Wall Street analysts said that G.M. had enough cash for a prolonged confrontation.

There was a prolonged confrontation between students and police officers along the banks of the Tiber in Rome.

The reports marked the beginning of a prolonged confrontation between the rule of law and the war on terror, one that remains unresolved.

Germany, France's key European ally over Iraq (and many other issues), shares many French misgivings about America, but is much less keen to risk a prolonged confrontation.

The lightning rod of the moment is David Koresh, the religious cult leader who died in 1993 along with many of his Branch Davidian followers after a prolonged confrontation with the F.B.I.

The White House appeared poised for a bitter, prolonged confrontation with the energetic Shaub, who has embraced his role as the lone independent voice within the government on the Trump Administration and ethics conflicts.

Setting up a final act in his prolonged confrontation with the New York City Council over stop-and-frisk practices, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday vetoed two contentious bills to increase oversight of the Police Department and expand the ability of New Yorkers to sue over police profiling of suspects.

They suggest that Mr. Sharon may be dragging the country into another prolonged confrontation.

In "thymic education" of immature T cells, or the activation of autoreactive T cells in pancreatic draining lymph nodes and in islets, such prolonged confrontation, from the long half-life of autoantigenic peptides with class II molecules, could be a sustaining factor.

One of the most prolonged confrontations took place at a weak point in the concrete and chain-link fence around the official summit meeting area that had been breached briefly during protests on Friday afternoon.