Sentence examples for confrontation could not from inspiring English sources

Grainy security footage showed the officers walking to the door, but the actual confrontation could not be clearly seen.

Hodgson, who wisely stayed well clear of such confrontations, could not quite finesse over all the penalty opportunities he was given in a 12-minute period towards the end of the first half.

Never one to shy from confrontation, Christie could not resist a returning punch.

In her ruling today, the judge said she was satisfied that, faced with a protester "seeking confrontation", Smellie could not have used other options.

The Syrian government crushed an Islamic militancy in the 1980s by drawing the Muslim Brotherhood into a military confrontation where it could not possibly prevail.

Belgium expressed "anguish" at today's confrontation, saying it "could not accept that the physical integrity of President Arafat be placed in danger".

However, using the agar diffusion assay and the confrontation assay, we could not detect any such compound in strain QM9414 and consequently also not in RUT C30 (data not shown).

Thirteen years ago, when Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi was addressing her ecstatic supporters in the rain, a Western diplomat predicted that her confrontation with the generals could not last much longer.

But in Poole's class, he was put in a position where a confrontation with his innermost being could not be avoided; no room to hide.

After one confrontation, he was so injured he could not sit down.

A day later, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon stated that Britain would stand alongside Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia because its freedom could not be "traded" for other concessions.