Sentence examples for creating a confrontation from inspiring English sources

The United States and other nations have ruled out military intervention in Syria, but the violence is creating a confrontation between those nations on either side of the conflict.

Hamid Serri, an Iranian-American scholar at Florida International University who also contributes to Mr. Sick's online forum, suggested another alternate explanation for the plot: that it could have been the work of a non-Iranian intelligence agency or even a terrorist organization with an interest in creating "a confrontation that involves the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia".

And in his answer to a question he diplomatically tried to avoid creating a confrontation with John Edwards and John Kerry, the two nominees of the party, when he came to Boston [for the convention].

The Miller campaign said in a statement late Sunday that the editor, Tony Hopfinger of Alaska Dispatch, was trying to create a "confrontation" with the candidate.

For "JapanCongo," Mr. Höller said, "the idea was to create a confrontation between different sources and forms of artistic expression and turn that into a work of art".

They want to avoid arrests or deportations of advocates that could create a confrontation between the White House and groups mobilizing support for overhaul legislation that Mr. Obama supports.

The goal is to not create a confrontation between interviewer and interviewee, or goad the subject into saying something provocative (but if it happens, that is a bonus).

Holding a vote soon would likely create a confrontation with Senator Rubén Díaz, a Pentecostal minister and a Democrat from the Bronx, who strongly opposes giving gays the right to marry and who fills a key position in Mr. Smith's narrow majority.

That would not only create a confrontation with Moscow, but it would also seriously fray Washington's relations with its allies in Western Europe, who are nervous that the American missile-defense program will undermine the existing framework of arms agreements and set off a new arms race with Russia and China, and perhaps even new nuclear states like India and Pakistan.

In a statement from the gallery, they said the painting "creates a confrontation with the sacred" and that it is not in their practice to censor pieces of art.

Donald Trump, we now know was trying to sneak four women who were critical of both Clintons into the family section in order to create a confrontation between them and the former President.