Sentence examples for confrontations year from inspiring English sources

"We, and English Heritage, decided, we could not go on any longer with these confrontations, year after year, and as a result of negotiations with them, the year 2000 was the first year that people were allowed to go up to the stones on the night.

Our troops were fighting in Borneo against confrontation years ago, and they were not covered under ANZUS [the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty].

But it promises to be one of the more unusual and important confrontations in years.

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

The confrontation was years in the making.

The fighting that is now spreading along the north-south border is by far the most serious confrontation in years.

Of all the mysteries and controversies around the Falklands war, that patchily reported, pivotal confrontation 30 years ago, some of the deepest involve submarines.

US navy officials said the Cowpens maneouvered to avoid the collision, but it marked the two nations' most serious sea confrontation in years.

Bad weather turned the strike into a nonevent in most places, but in Mahalla a demonstration by the workers' families led to a violent police crackdown — the first major labor confrontation in years.

In the biggest confrontation in years, a 138-day dispute involving 59,000 California supermarket workers, the companies trounced the union, obtaining a two-tier contract that means lower wages and fewer health benefits for new employees.

What unfolded, according to local journalist James Cameron, was "like something out of the Wild West" and it would set the template of confrontation for years to come.