Sentence examples for direct encounter with from inspiring English sources
My first direct encounter with a capital prosecution came in 1991.
When he was an adolescent, Sehgal says, a direct encounter with the political process disenchanted him permanently from parliamentary politics.
The sense of a powerful presence felt but not seen, made manifest but never revealed, was far more dramatic than a direct encounter with the current.
Far from the disengagement with experience that Berio suggests, Feldman's music is a more direct encounter with the substance of sound than most composers have achieved.
Corzine had his first direct encounter with Florio several weeks after I met him when both men addressed the Princeton County Democratic Organization.
Not only could he avoid a direct encounter with Johnston, but gunboats carrying troops and supplies could flank him on each river as he proceeded to Richmond.
Those disturbing but educative early experiences did not inhibit Havel in his direct encounters with authority.
Others have had direct encounters with the chengguan, an urban management force notorious for its violent, extra-legal ways.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has been accused of ducking direct encounters with his rival, appeared mostly unperturbed by Mr. Badillo's assertiveness and sought to exude the confidence of a front-runner.
