Sentence examples for army confronted from inspiring English sources

The Italian Army confronted him at Aspromonte, demanded that he surrender and began firing when he refused.

That was where Joseph Welch, the counsel for the Army, confronted McCarthy with his famous denunciation: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?

The army confronted not a few wanted men hiding among the local population but a network of fighters whose families loyally supported their decision to resist Israel's occupation.

A11 Violence and Politics in Israel The Israeli Army confronted angry Jewish settlers in Gaza and fired rockets at a Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem.

A Nigerian military source, who asked not to be named, said the militants had arrived in a convoy of pickup trucks and motorbikes but suffered "dozens" of casualties when the army confronted them.

At a time when large-scale bloodshed seemed possible as the army confronted anti-government "red shirt" protesters in Bangkok, Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister deposed in a coup in 2006, gave a television interview.

Many activists who are usually doubtful of such ventures have joined a chorus on Twitter condemning AQAP and demanding that the Yemeni army confronts the group once and for all.The government has deployed a greater number of troops than at any time in recent history.

Outside the stadium, beyond the police guards poised on nearby towers, the reality is that Afghanistan remains a poor, turbulent, chaotic nation that, some fear, may plunge into something even worse as its army confronts the Taliban alone without international support, as outside aid money dwindles and as warlords jostle for supremacy.

Yet this is the summer of 1964, as the army confronts communists and politicians whip up xenophobia, with blanket repatriation of Dutch from the old colonial power, and the bellicose policy of Konfrontasi - a territorial dispute with the newly independent but British-backed Malaysia.

But the experience of similar conflicts elsewhere - with a regular army confronting paramilitary units - provides no basis for such claims.

The armies confronted the great drought as well.