Sentence examples for clashed head on from inspiring English sources

On 26 September, the 4th and 5th Divisions attacked and captured Polygon Wood, while later on 4 October, another successful attack was made on the main ridge at Broodseinde, where the four Australian divisions involved fought side by side, as they clashed head on with a German counterattack that had been launched at the same time the Australians had risen to carry out their assault.

This week David Cameron, the Tory leader, and Gordon Brown, the chancellor and Labour's leader-in-waiting, clashed head-on as each brandished claims to be the more ostentatiously and radically green.The spur was the publication, on March 13th, of the government's climate-change bill.

The last NPT conference, in 2005, broke up in acrimony when Iran clashed head-on with the Bush administration.

But in this case, the independent ways of the McGuckin family clashed head-on with a confluence of family tragedies.

Labour and the Conservatives clashed head-on over the economy yesterday after David Cameron confirmed that a Tory government would cut public spending below the level pledged by Labour from 2010.

The crises that punctuated the years after 1905 dominate the final part of the book – crises over Morocco, and crises, above all, in the volatile Balkans, where the newly independent state of Serbia exercised a powerful attraction on South Slavs living within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and where Austrian and Russian interests clashed head-on.

Hoepner's Panzer Corps and Prioux' Cavalry clashed head-on near Hannut, Belgium, on 12 May.

Historically, our culture has placed a premium on attributes like speed, youth and beauty, and such emphasis has subsequently clashed head-on with our images of senior citizens.

Confronting it head-on stung.

He met all challenges head-on.

They need to be challenged head-on.