Sentence examples for confrontations both from inspiring English sources

This Congress has been defined by its confrontations: both sides pushing each other to the brink of something awful, then waiting for someone to blink.

That intensity has been evident not least in some fairly lively confrontations both on and off the field, but Cook denies that the sledging has been out of the ordinary.

The first three acts suffer from the seeming use of under-rehearsed extras to bulk out the crowd scenes, but the thrash-metal volume bolsters confrontations both military and domestic.

More likely, in the short term, is that friction between the parties will continue to be played out in proxy confrontations both in Syria, where Iranian Lebanese client group Hezbollah is openly fighting on the Assad side, and in Lebanon itself.

These include the difference between participating in highly risky missions and using suicide as a weapon, the justice of concerted confrontations (both mutually agreed and forced by one of the parties), the permissibility of military alliances with infidels, the rights of soldiers against the sovereign, and justice in the distribution of booty.

After that, confrontations — both in the courthouse and on the ground — have occurred regularly.

And when a truce was proposed to avoid the pivotal confrontation, both men said no.

Empathy and confrontation – both are qualities needed by leaders, parents, teachers, coaches and, in fact, everyone.

In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.

They relished each confrontation, both for public relations value and for the legal costs inevitably incurred by Dr. Tiller.

The traditional relationship with the unions not least the funding they provide for the party makes confrontation both difficult and painful.