Sentence examples for confrontation up from inspiring English sources

While the forwards appear to thrive on the physical confrontation up front, the backs have struggled to penetrate defenses, relying on individual brilliance rather than a cohesive effort.

Can the forwards lay a good enough platform for the backs to prosper, particularly against the Samoans and South Africans, who relish the confrontation up front?

Allegations of illegal hacking by an adviser to Zuluaga's campaign and suggestions that drug money may have been contributed to Santos's 2010 campaign coffers have taken the confrontation up several notches – and further alienated many voters.

Might Chávez's old politics of confrontation seize up on him?

But as we all know, the last debt ceiling confrontation crept up on the White House because Obama refused to believe that Republicans would actually threaten to provoke default.

The confrontation shaped up after the announcement by the main Yemeni coalition opposed to Saleh, the Joint Meeting Parties, or J.M.P., that on Tuesday it would join the young Yemenis who have been pouring into the streets to demand Saleh's ouster.

As a noisy, finger-pointing confrontation built up between Mr. Shekhar's supporters and his opponents, the lower house of Parliament had to be adjourned for 15 minutes for tempers to cool.

There was no confrontation leading up to the shooting, and no words were exchanged between the men in the car and Jennifer and her friends, Detective Sgt. Dennis Farrell of the Nassau County Police Department said today at a news conference in Mineola.

As the Indonesia Malaysia confrontation heated up in 1963, Bomber Command sent detachments of Victors and Vulcans to the Far East.

Yeah when the confrontation flares up, you have to be wary of your surroundings so as not to get pepper sprayed.

A tiff with hecklers on a nearby cliff quickly escalates to a violent confrontation, broken up by gunshots overhead, fired by the same farmer who'd shooed him off the property decades earlier.