Sentence examples for confronted the group from inspiring English sources

Officers confronted the group and distributed plastic handcuffs, but then accompanied them downtown, with many officers videotaping and photographing demonstrators.

The troops stationed at the checkpoint confronted the group, the statement said, but a clash broke out, and three soldiers were killed.

When a politician speaks at an interest group's convention, we want to hear that he has somehow challenged or confronted the group, rather than "pandered" to it.

But the protesters, some feeling they had been upstaged, confronted the group with shouts like, "You helped convict those kids!" The women's group said it endorsed proper arrests, not wrongful convictions.

Mr. Kebede said he became furious and confronted the group, telling them that they "should feel shame" because while thousands had been "killed on their own land and became ash, you are enjoying the savage and barbaric actions of your brothers, your compatriots".

As a result, conservatives have to confront the group with the old "G.O.P. Death Wish".

As Officer Vergara identified himself as a police officer and crossed the street to confront the group, the scene was suddenly transformed, Mr. Kelly said.

He rushed outside to confront the group, three Europeans and a Japanese, who wore surgical masks and cloth booties as they waved around a Geiger counter.

On Sunday, the US president said the troop surge will place the US on the front foot as it confronts the group.

Father and son grabbed guns from a closet and ran out to confront the group at the end of the driveway.

"There wasn't any big cheer but there was a determination to make sure we won so [Scotland's defeat] would count for something," said O'Neill of his side's mindset before confronting the group's tiddlers.