Sentence examples for course of confrontation from inspiring English sources

When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams, he pursued a more successful course of confrontation.

"They will suspect that rejection is a strategic decision to pursue a course of confrontation, contention and containment".

"We expect to turn from a course of confrontation to cooperation and come to a negotiating table," he said in an interview.

Many among this generation of Tibetans, too young to remember the harsh crackdown that followed riots in Lhasa in the late 1980s when President Hu Jintao was Communist Party chief in Tibet, have taken to the streets and want to stick to their course of confrontation.

Mr Gudkov ran afoul on the first, Mr Galeotti notes, so the authorities went after him on the second.The pressure on Mr Gudkov comes at a time when the state is pursuing a course of confrontation and intimidation against all opponents of Mr Putin.

It published a paper two weeks ago, titled "Turkey on a Course of Confrontation," whose introduction reads, "Ankara is looking to pick a fight in the Mediterranean not only with Israel and the Republic of Cyprus, but also with the European Union".

Of course, avoidance of confrontation, by not buying shares in the first place, can sometimes be just the ticket.

"We will not bow to pressure, and we will of course not revert to the old path of confrontation," she said.

Then, set on a course of continued confrontation with the West, Russia might hunker down into a siege mentality, with the risk that the Kremlin might seek to compensate for economic failure with further revisionist behavior.

We are told little else but it's enough: the author has issued a narrative lottery ticket that keeps us breathless for the drawing that will occur in the course of the nightlong confrontation.

Solidarity was officially recognized by the Polish government in October, and Wałęsa steered the federation on a course of carefully limited confrontations with the government in order to avert the possibility of Soviet military intervention in Poland.