Sentence examples for an open confrontation from inspiring English sources

State media reported on Friday that King Salman had conveyed the carefully-worded message during a telephone conversation with Barack Obama, maintaining the kingdom's position of avoiding an open confrontation with the US while warning about, and confronting, Iran's regional ambitions.

And Mr. Morsi, they said, sought to avoid an open confrontation.

And the Gulf monarchies, led by Saudi Arabia, entered an open confrontation with Qatar.

Improved technology may also be the most direct way to modify tradition without an open confrontation or a political revolution.

But even the travel ban has not, as some supporters hoped, provoked him into an open confrontation with Ahmadinejad.

Mr. Blee, a Harvard-eeucated lawyer, avoided an open confrontation with Mr. Angleton as he ordered the 180-degree shift.

Even Syria, an implacable foe of Israel, long avoided any open confrontation during the decades that Hafez al-Assad ran the country.

And, in a rare flash of open confrontation between the White House and the Supreme Court, Mr. Obama declared that a recent court ruling would "open the floodgates for special interests," and perhaps foreign companies, to exert more influence in political campaigns.

In what was likely an effort to calm tempers, Israeli officials later said they did not know the Iranian general was present, but Hizbullah cadres in southern Lebanon threatened retaliation, possibly with guerrilla attacks over the border with Israel.Iran, however, would probably not be able to sustain a significant escalation or open confrontation.

China's Slow Response But Singapore's aggressive, open confrontation with a viral enemy is a lesson that some other countries have been slow to learn, especially China, the world's most populous country, where SARS emerged almost half a year ago.

Yet even some of those sympathetic to the White House's view of Fox question the wisdom of open confrontation with a major news network.