Sentence examples for active confrontations from inspiring English sources

Despite the Cape Fear River area being the epicenter of Stamp Act protests in North Carolina, Howe took no substantial part in the active confrontations with Governor William Tryon, due in large part to their personal friendship and the patronage provided by the Governor for Howe's political ambitions.

For him there was no contradiction between poetry, political philosophy, and active confrontation with illegitimate authority.

Hoover's active confrontation of the Depression was limited to economic management; he staunchly resisted the idea that the government should help individuals through employment programs or direct payments.

The work, he said, will require movement "across active confrontation lines and in some cases through territory controlled by armed groups that are hostile to the objectives of the joint mission".

As a result, there was little active confrontation between the Malays and the non-Malays on the issue of ketuanan Melayu at the time.

His way is something the world has never seen before -- a way of steadfast nonviolence--not passivity, but active confrontation with empire, the kind which leads to his civil disobedience action, his arrest, torture and execution.

Clinicians could set better expectations for patients, including education on the benefit of chemotherapy and more active confrontation of the disease to improve the quality of life.

The Zone À Défendre (Zad) group from Nantes were also active in confrontations with the police over the dam project, Lefetey said.

Head wounds from bites suggest that theropods, at least, engaged in active aggressive confrontations.

Cairns got the best of Doull in the more active second confrontation, and the Islanders seemed to ride the momentum.

"We have to strive to combine active engagement with constructive confrontation".