Sentence examples for confrontational encounter with from inspiring English sources

Other reports said part of the conflict was Mr. Kennedy's confrontational encounter with Ireland's powerful arts minister, Sile de Valera, when the Book of Kells, an ancient Irish manuscript, traveled to Australia last year.

In his first address as commissioner, William J. Bratton said the department's progress in reducing crime should long ago have given way to fewer confrontational encounters with the public.

He was known mostly for his ample size (Toronto journalists turn themselves in pretzels trying to avoid the most obvious adjective to describe him), his confrontational encounters with the press, and his dogged refusal to spend what he considered the excessively high office budgets given to city councillors.

It's briefly odd to realize that Schwartz brought a crew to confrontational encounters with her parents, once she came to accept what her friends already knew; but it is the sort of thing you only consider afterward, when you are not flushed with amazement at people and what they're capable of and incapable of.

The marriage disintegrated and in 2006, three weeks after their last confrontational encounter, Leo hanged himself.

Scattered with deadpan dance moves and confrontational encounters, they are part surreal theatre, part silent comedy, part self-sabotage.

Most people do not enjoy confrontational encounters, but Millennials will do just about anything to avoid them.

"Motivational interviewing" and other less confrontational approaches involve asking an addict to join family members, who may attend lengthy counseling before and after the encounter with the addict.

(Her only encounter with Mr. Milosevic -- in May 1997 in Belgrade as part of a tour of the Balkans as Secretary of State -- was, according to aides, confrontational and blunt).

(This was her first encounter with Dracula).

I have an encounter with myself.