Sentence examples for decisive confrontation from inspiring English sources

Third, and relatedly, the idea that we can have the decisive confrontation and get the message across depends in large part on good reporting.

But if we define showdown as a decisive confrontation, then at least one half of the fight's moniker was entirely apt.

In one of the greatest failures of military intelligence in history, the French remained blissfully unaware of these fortifications as they pursued the withdrawing army, seeking a decisive confrontation.

"The last week included a decisive confrontation with elements that threaten national security," the spokesman, Col. Ahmed Ali, said in a televised news conference to discuss the continuing campaign.

Mr. Garber has sought to cast the suit as a historic and decisive confrontation in which the courts would clarify the sometimes blurry lines of authority between the branches of government.

But this was his ultimate pet project - persuading the Sealed Knot Society, hobbyists who spend their weekends dressed as roundheads and cavaliers, to restage the decisive confrontation in the Miners' Strike.

Onscreen, during his decisive confrontations with Elizabeth about this vintage wickedness, Windsor, who is the consensus choice as the best-dressed man of the twentieth century, wears an inexcusably mismatched combination of shirt and tie under a jacket, also mismatched, that shows no cuff.

Now, Abu Ibrahim is one of the chieftains of the war in Syria's strategic northern Aleppo province, where a decisive military confrontation seems to be beginning.

PAKISTAN'S prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has long been caught between hawks demanding a decisive military confrontation with the Pakistani Taliban and doves adamant the militants can be talked into abandoning their bloody campaign against the government.

Even his strong links to the powerful Revolutionary Guards — long his insurance policy — may not be decisive as the confrontation in Iran unfolds.

But the 1984-5 stheke, the decisive social and economic confrontation of Britain's postwar era, is how we got where we are today.