Sentence examples for confrontation such as from inspiring English sources

Let's say this is a female victim of torture: a visual confrontation such as this, in its stark reality, may provoke an empathetic and perhaps even charitable response.

In theory soldiers at unmarked parts of the border will get clearer rules to avoid or limit confrontation, such as during the three-week stand-off after China's incursion into Ladakh in April.

To achieve ahimsa requires enormous activity, including confrontation, such as he used while challenging the mighty British Empire that caused himsa on a large scale.

Most sobering was the acknowledgement that an aggressive reaction could trigger a Chinese response in kind and a confrontation such as a ship collision or plane shoot-down.

Other conflict contexts may involve direct physical confrontation, such as between Polistes cofoundresses or daughter honey bee queens.

If you are being confronted by multiple opponents, and they want to hurt you, here is a list of techniques outlawed in rings that are perfectly acceptable in a confrontation such as this.

In light of widened regional and political cleavages, confrontations such as occurred in the holy mosque of the prophet could increase in frequency, size, and violence.

Yet Newsnight fumbled it, staging sterile, phoney confrontations (such as Michael Gove versus Harriet Harman) and trotting out the usual cast of opinionated fools (such as David Starkey and Kelvin McKenzie).

On the Republican side, primary voters appear to believe otherwise, opting in large numbers for Trump, the bombastic frontrunner who has eschewed a conventional, policy-based campaign for one based around emotions and public confrontations, such as his encounter this week with Pope Francis.

John Campbell, a former US ambassador to Nigeria, said Washington also wanted to avoid being drawn in too close to confrontations such as Abuja's battle with Boko Haram because it risks becoming associated with widespread abuses by government forces, including the killing of civilians and destruction of property.

Rivalries often spilled over from the courtroom into armed confrontations, such as the Percy Neville feud.