Sentence examples for difficult confrontations from inspiring English sources

That said, she did employ an interesting tactic to deflect antagonism from obstreperous men during what could have been difficult confrontations.

Often, Mr. Giuliani said, people who use the firearms simulator emerge with a better understanding of how difficult confrontations with people on the street can be.

During his long career as an analyst and investor on Wall Street, Mr. Auriana said yesterday, he got into a number of proxy fights that were "difficult confrontations".

"If we find ourselves in a long, painful, difficult confrontation of many long months, there'll be no importance to our having held on for another 72 or 96 hours," Mr. Barak said.

But if he is to bring meaningful change to Mexico's schools, he will have to prepare for what might prove to be the most difficult political confrontation of his presidency.

The administration also appeared to be acknowledging that it would be difficult to use confrontations between allied planes and Iraqi forces on the ground in the no-flight zones -- the equivalent of a low-level war that has been going on for years -- as the sole reason for taking new military action against Saddam Hussein.

He benefits from a large pool of good will, but also has a difficult time with confrontation and saying no.

He was a wise statesman who ran his country under the difficult conditions of confrontation with Israel and the West".

The agreement, 56 years after the fall of the Third Reich, was greeted with great solemnity in Germany and hailed as the closing chapter of a difficult process of confrontation with the crimes of Hitler.

When I told him during the coffee break of an NEC meeting that I had had a difficult, if enjoyable, confrontation with students at Ruskin College, Oxford, who had asked me to come to speak on Labour policies, Colling smiled – he had an engaging, quizzical smile -– and said he was glad to hear it.

It's very difficult to get confrontation with the President of the United States when he's right there eyeball to eyeball".