Sentence examples for confronting opposing from inspiring English sources

Coke, rather than directly confronting opposing counsel, made a twofold argument; firstly, that the fact that the King's Bench had been allowed to hear assumpsit actions for so long meant that it was acceptable, based on institutional inertia, and second that, on the subject of assumpsit being used for breaches of promise, that the original agreement included an implied promise to make payment.

He is a very ideological man and has a peculiar characteristic which is that he is so convinced of the virtue of his ideas that he is unafraid to confront opposing viewpoints because he feels, deep down, that he is capable of convincing you with his arguments.

Confronting an opposing political view is a threat to identity, but "if you remind people of what they value in some other domain of their life, it lessens the pain," said the lead author, Geoffrey L. Cohen, a social psychologist at Stanford.

Showing involves power forward Blake Griffin or center DeAndre Jordan confronting an opposing ballhandler as he moves around a pick, an aggressive scheme that can disrupt the offense.

The Fourth Circuit confronted two opposing lower-court decisions.

The narrator, a journalist who calls himself Jonah, confronts the opposing forces of rationality and irrationality.

Moss caught a pass near the Detroit sideline and then, according to an N.F.L. spokesman, aggressively confronted the opposing bench.

Islam, he points out, has made "permanent conquests in every part of the world into which it has expanded with only three exceptions: Spain, Sicily, and certain parts of the Balkans": three areas where Islamic fanaticism was confronted with opposing fanaticism.

Confronted with opposing forces of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, many philosophers opt for a mixture of liberalism-cosmopolitanism and patriotism-nationalism.

Which manager was sent off in the Champions League final after running onto the pitch in stoppage time to confront an opposing player?

Like many thinkers of the late Middle Ages, Gersonides had to confront two opposing sets of traditions: on the one hand, attacks by religious authorities (e.g. Augustine's attack in City of God; Maimonides' letters) on the grounds that astrology compromised human free will; on the other hand, the wide scale acceptance of astrology from the 12th century on.