Sentence examples for confrontation either from inspiring English sources

Craig Levein was never one to shirk confrontation, either during his playing days or his time as a club manager.

"And I could draw you one in which the first big foreign crisis of the Obama presidency is a really nasty confrontation, either because the Israelis strike or because we won't let them".

What this suggests is that the pressures within Greece to avoid a confrontation, either by Syriza doing less well than expected at the polls, or through a more emollient stance by Mr Tsipras if he does win power, may just be sufficient to avoid a Grexit.

Mourinho has always given the impression that he needs confrontation – either with rivals such as Guardiola, Wenger or Claudio Ranieri [from his time at Internazionale] to groups that have ranged from governing bodies to referees' committees to Unicef, the charity partner of Barcelona.

It is the most serious confrontation on either end of the border since 1986.

Much of what was said in those conversations in the first minutes and hours after the confrontation is either unclear or in dispute.

While the slight nod goes to ninjas, I'd like to reiterate that in no way would I relish a confrontation with either a pirate or a ninja (I would, however, have coffee with a ninja).

Evolvement of TLR8 as a bacteria sensor might have resulted from perpetuating confrontation with either soil bacteria producing an MLS antibiotic, or bacteria expressing resistance conferring methyltransferase only, or bacteria carrying a respective 23S rRNA mutation upon fish tetrapod evolutionary transition [ 31].

Analysts say that rather than resolving the conflict, the election is likely to lead to more confrontations, either in Parliament, in the streets or through military intervention.

Relations have been so fraught that Gen. Ray Odierno, who recently left his post as the senior American commander in Iraq, established a series of checkpoints, maintained by American, Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers, to head off confrontations, either accidental or planned.

Dame Fiona Reynolds, the outfit's director-general, says she did not seek either confrontation.