The phrase 'altercation by' is not correct or grammatically correct in written English
A similar phrase that can be used is 'altercation between.' Example: The altercation between the two neighbors was so heated that the police were called.
Wilson said that Brown started the altercation by going for his gun through his patrol car's window.
"Mr Woolfe instigated the altercation by suggesting that he and Mr Hookem deal with their differences 'man to man'," the report found.
Speculation later circulated that Avery had started the altercation by making a derogatory remark about Toronto forward Jason Blake's bout with cancer.
Mr. DeThomasis said that there was no evidence the girlfriend was pregnant, and that she started the altercation by hitting him in the forehead with a pipe, landing him in the jail infirmary for a week.
UN officials hope to take the sting out of the altercation by brokering a deal between Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Guyana's President David Granger, but history suggests it won't be that simple.
Over the last four games, three Red Bulls players have received red cards, including midfielder Rafael Marquez, who triggered an altercation by throwing the ball at Donovan after time expired in the Galaxy's 1-0 vinthey in the first leg of their home-and-home playoff series Sunday.
In another version of the events, several officials said, the police attention was initially attracted by some kind of argument or altercation — compounded by the language barrier — involving the woman who demanded money from the agent.
Similarly, "several officials" told the Times that the police attention was initially attracted by some kind of argument or altercation — compounded by the language barrier — involving the woman who demanded money from the agent.
Hall said Clarkson had crossed a line by subjecting an "innocent party [to] a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature".
The BBC director general Tony Hall released a statement saying a "line has been crossed" by Clarkson in what he described as a "physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature".
Mr. Khatri quickly rushed over to break up the altercation, but by then the boy had disappeared.
