Sentence examples for confrontation back from inspiring English sources

There's no doubt that Uber, Airbnb, and other peer-to-peer platforms are running afoul of regulators with increasing frequency, and taking big-company steps to manage the confrontation; back in 2012 Airbnb hired Yahoo's head of government affairs for precisely that purpose.

The fact that Armenians and Azeris were locked in armed confrontation, backed respectively by Russia and Turkey, has hardly helped.About a month ago, and entirely unnoticed by the world, BSEC suddenly did something rather unfriendly to a stranger.

The strongest weapons available to our enemies are ideas of religious supremacy and perennial confrontation, backed with logistical networks, and repressive political conditions that help strengthen their narrative and network.

"There's always controversy – confrontation – back-talk," he says.

Anti-Castro exiles have a history of violent confrontation going back to the 1960's.

If you do encounter a bear, mountain lion or rattlesnake, avoid confrontation by backing away slowly.

Mr. Jordan left Mr. Kerry's home after what was described by campaign officials as a tense confrontation and flew back to Washington.

Western leaders huffed and puffed and talked of sanctions, while others preoccupied themselves with the meaning of it all and whether confrontation was now back on the agenda.

The lawyer for Detective Anthony Vasquez said that the victim, Patrick M. Dorismond, 26, a security guard for a Midtown business association, had grown belligerent after being asked by another undercover detective if he had any marijuana to sell, and had suddenly escalated the quarrel into violence after all three officers in the confrontation tried to back off.

But her style of very public confrontation was thrown back at her during a campaign in which she promised that in her next term she would introduce laws on rent control and affordable housing, and pass a "millionaires tax" to fund better public transport.

Unprepared for a confrontation, the authorities backed down.