Sentence examples for confrontations for from inspiring English sources

Instead, preparations for the games have degenerated into some of the ugliest verbal confrontations for years between China and its critics.

The police battled hundreds of protesters in Tunis, above, demanding the government's resignation on Friday in the most violent confrontations for weeks with pro-democracy demonstrators.

Realists also like to point out that when the United States has big fiscal confrontations — for example, over the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011 — it tends to destabilize the rest of the world more than it hurts the United States.

But despite the group's eagerness to get in confrontations for the "lulz" and the numerous mass media headlines to the contrary yesterday, LulzSec is NOT at war with Anonymous, another hacker group — Anonymous, before the appearance of LulzSec, was held to be the preeminent Internet troublemaker.

The commanding officer of the 5th Military District, Major General Andrija Rašeta, in overall command of the JNA intervention, told the media that his men were not protecting either side and were there only to prevent ethnic confrontations for an indeterminate period.

Western Europe does not seem to be as involved as USA and Soviet Union in confrontations for the first places, a high field opposition between the two blocs.

That might make it an uglier confrontation, for sure.

Scheming and bickering has been part of this super-rich confrontation for 161 years.

He shifted the tone of politics, eschewing bare-knuckles confrontation for a more accommodating approach.

Thus Washington avoids a confrontation, for now, with its closest ally.

The famous confrontation, for instance, between Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer on the "Today" show.