Sentence examples for earlier confrontation with from inspiring English sources

In an earlier confrontation with Downing, for example.

I detect an insidious subtext in the constant emphasis on the woman's age in coverage of the recent Central Park rape case ("Rape Victim, 73, Says She Reported Earlier Confrontation With the Suspect," news article, Sept. 15).

"One of them had a knee on my neck and they were shouting 'Stop resisting.' I was telling them, 'I'm going peacefully.'" "The cop grabbed me and twisted my hand," added Lauren Howland, a 21-year-old youth council representative and member of the San Carlos Apache tribe who is recovering from a broken wrist sustained in an earlier confrontation with police.

Of all the odd things that happened during the U.S.-China airplane standoff, surely the oddest was the report that the Chinese fighter pilot who was killed, Wang Wei, had held up an e-mail address in the window of his cockpit during an earlier confrontation with a U.S. surveillance plane.

Historians speculate, e.g., that an earlier confrontation with Hitler would've prevented World War II from ending up being so widespread and destructive.

Meanwhile, Sandor Clegane, who had seemed so unshakeable -- as we see in an earlier confrontation with Bronn -- is completely undone by the exploding flames of the battle, exposing his childhood trauma from the burning that took half his face.

Under one awning, young men queued up to be given shields, some homemade, some police ones snatched during earlier confrontations with the security forces.

A Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, showed itself determined not to be humiliated as she perceived her predecessor, Ted Heath, had been in earlier confrontations with the NUM.

In a briefing that coincided with his stepping down, Ernst blamed earlier confrontations with Clarence House for the threatened closure of his department and his early exit as head of the unit.

It seems we are also supposed to be relieved by the fact that Hicks, who carried a gun to earlier confrontations with his neighbors, was not a religious fanatic.

But unlike earlier confrontations with Mr. Yeltsin, when the Communists backed down, this time they may sense electoral advantage in the growing economic turmoil and Mr. Yeltsin's unpopularity.