Sentence examples for confrontation a number of from inspiring English sources

During this confrontation a number of missiles were thrown at officers, including one reported 'petrol bomb'.

Despite the influence he wields, Mr. Newhouse so defers to his editors and dislikes confrontation that a number of them have said over the years that their first indication of trouble came when he fired them.

From October 2012 onwards, Ansar al-Sharia had confrontations with a number of Libyan groups, many of which joined the Libyan army in Benghazi.

His appearance and subsequent heated confrontations with a number of network interviewers helped him grab the nation's attention long enough for him to be unmasked as a con-artist and a liar, after a CNN reporter outed him over lies and exaggerations published on his personal website.

She said that she was outside the church during the confrontation and that a number of the demonstrators were injured.

The government and Greenpeace have been locked in confrontation for several months over a number of campaigns the group has been running against large projects.

The two men had a number of confrontations.

In addition, the outspoken and sometimes combatant Baldwin was involved in a number of confrontations with paparazzi and others.

"We have increasingly and more fiercely started to expand our protection zone to cover the whole park in the last six months and this has obviously brought us in to a number of confrontations with various armed groups," said Mararv.

French police said they are now between 1,200 and 1,300 migrants in Calais, mostly from east Africa, and there have been a number of confrontations around the port in August.

A representative of Stalybridge police post said "Due to the serious nature of recent incidents in Dukinfield and Newton Hyde involving a number of confrontations between large groups of youths, the decision has been made to introduce a Dispersal Order".