Sentence examples for confrontations erupted from inspiring English sources
In the tension, car windows were smashed and sidewalk confrontations erupted.
The confrontations erupted three days after Gaza militants fired a rocket into Israel for the first time since a cease-fire agreement took hold in November.
The hostilities have grown so serious that violent confrontations erupted last month when one faction ousted the union's top official in Michigan.
Thirty years after one of the pivotal clashes in the miners' strike of 1984 when violent confrontations erupted at the Orgreave coking plant, the area outside Sheffield could barely look more different.
Every now and then confrontations erupted between the world's only superpower and this most exasperating of "rogue states"; they arose out of Saddam's attempts to break out of his "box", via some renewed threat to Kuwait, an incursion into the western-protected Kurdish enclave, or - most persistently - showdowns over the UN's mission to divest Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
Several confrontations erupted this week between police and protesters at Standing Rock camps in North Dakota, marking renewed violence over the Dakota Access Pipeline, which was stalled when the US Army Corps denied a permit last fall.
After the subject's girlfriend spotted it, a confrontation erupted.
A violent confrontation erupted between the Palestinian police and the residents of the Deheisheh refugee camp shortly after the pope left on Wednesday.
A major maritime confrontation erupted between China and Vietnam in 2014 early May too mid-July) when China deployed a large offshore oil platform in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
Twelve protesters were arrested Sunday night on a march through Lower Manhattan to show support for Occupy protesters in Oakland, where a violent confrontation erupted on Saturday night between the police and demonstrators who tried to take over an empty convention center.
In 2000, when Israelis killed tens of Palestinian protesting then premier Ariel Sharon's visit to the mosque, a much more violent confrontation erupted.
