Sentence examples for confrontation whether from inspiring English sources

"During the last 30 years," he said, "when we had any military confrontation, whether in the first or second Lebanon wars, the intifadas, in all those events we could be confident that Egypt would not try to intervene militarily".

We would learn from a Nixon-McGovern confrontation whether we as a people wish a new social order or prefer to stay as we are, merely tightening a few nuts & bolts here & there--which is all that most of the other candidates propose.

But he did reiterate his suspicion of diplomacy with our enemies, and he has often shown that his instinct in a confrontation (whether with a colleague or a country) is the opposite of John Kennedy's in the Cuban missile crisis; Mr. McCain responds to challenges by seeking to escalate, to fight.

The Wimp: This type of family lawyer backs off from any confrontation, whether it is coming from you, opposing counsel, or the judge.

Cadogan, in "Black and Blue," literally walks in search of a safe space Cadogan discovered his love for walking at age ten, in 1980s Kingston, Jamaica, fleeing a violent stepfather and finds wonder, bewilderment, and confrontation, whether strolling through New Orleans pre-Katrina or traversing New York's boroughs.

He is not a fan of confrontations, whether with China or anyone else -- as befits a man who has had to navigate few of them in a remarkably charmed and carefree life.

There are many questions in this world over which rational people can have sensible confrontations: whether lower taxes stimulate or stagnate growth; whether abortion is immoral; whether the '60s were an achievement or a disaster; whether the universe is motivated by a force for benevolence; whether the Fonz jumping on water skis over a shark was cool or lame.

But Yakhya's lawyers said their history raised the question of whether the men had a confrontation, and whether the president made the call that set the detention in motion.

In the shadow of a confrontation over whether Syria's government had attacked civilians with internationally banned chemical munitions, a rights group reported Wednesday that Syrian armed forces had repeatedly used cluster bombs, another widely prohibited weapon, in the country's civil war.

This essay describes the history of space radioisotope power systems, the struggles to ensure safe operations, and the political confrontation over whether or not to allow the launch the Galileo and Cassini space probes to the outer planets.

Western leaders huffed and puffed and talked of sanctions, while others preoccupied themselves with the meaning of it all and whether confrontation was now back on the agenda.