Sentence examples for confrontation toward from inspiring English sources

She taunts and provokes these apparent rivals, pushing the confrontation toward violence and delivering a nose-breaking head butt to one of them.

The confrontation moved toward its climax.

The scene of their confrontation veers toward physical and emotional violence, the sort of unchallenged aggression which, though ostensibly benign, belongs to the same realm as the rapist's behavior, as Ann herself recognizes in the time of a rapid, horrified glance.

In New York City, where the Occupy movement began, police tactics toward the demonstrators have shifted away from accommodation and toward confrontation.

That is a strategy that points toward confrontation.

Trump's bellicose speech put Washington on a long-term path toward confrontation with Tehran.

By Robin Wright October 13, 2017 Trump's bellicose speech put Washington on a long-term path toward confrontation with Tehran.

Much of the agitation in Montenegro may be just talk, but many little incidents are nudging the republic toward confrontation.

"How China proceeds will be a key indicator of whether the region is heading toward confrontation or cooperation," he said.

In Escher's print, the positive and negative spaces of a room's wallpaper merge indecipherably into a circle of black and white figures dancing toward confrontation.

"He didn't gravitate toward confrontation, and would use it as a last resort," Mr. Kellman said, "and it seems to me he's still there".