Sentence examples for confrontation to be from inspiring English sources

This is a confrontation to be measured not in days but in months, or even years.

It cannot be certain how far the hardliners wished that confrontation to be taken this week, nor whether they may have miscalculated when it came to the British response, as Mr Chilcott says.

The BBC debate was the second Farage-Clegg confrontation to be held in as many weeks.

Permission was eventually granted on 15 January, but the British considered this confrontation to be the cause of much subsequent ill will against the Western powers in Zanzibar.

To almost everyone -- the innocent and the present or past wrongdoer -- the path of least resistance seems, under the pressure of confrontation, to be the best strategic response to a police request to examine a car or personal property.

Credulity is further strained by Hunter's allowing all the confrontations to be aired in the midst of a public place.

It is better and safer to walk away from a confrontation than to be victim of a confrontation.

The goal remained the same, but, unless secession actually seemed likely, confrontation was to be avoided.

The confrontation appears to be the most violent in the sprawling former Soviet republic since independence was declared 20 years ago.

A group of men in a confrontation, believed to be gang-affiliated, began firing and Guzman was struck twice.

It was left to Kerry to argue that, despite what was delicately described as "electoral improprieties," confrontation had to be avoided.