Sentence examples for expected the confrontation from inspiring English sources

As expected, the confrontation quickly becomes heated.

While the outcome of the party vote was expected, the confrontations during the convention were not, and the country, already tense, may become more so in the coming weeks.

Tate expected some confrontation with parents and was "ready for this reaction", he said, although he was taken aback by being described as a "Gestapo headmaster" – which he said was offensive.

Chinese leaders, the report asserted, view this as a time to "focus on internal development while avoiding direct confrontation," although they expect tension, competition, and territorial flare-ups from time to time, and they do not expect the status quo, however satisfactory they find it, to last indefinitely.

Most people are expecting the "red shirts", the broad protest movement linked to the government, to rally and are extremely concerned about the possibility of confrontation, he adds.

But Mr. Neeleman said he expected a lengthy confrontation here, because of the significance that Philadelphia has assumed for all involved.

"We shouldn't expect a confrontation because the experience with Greece has shown that this leads nowhere," said political commentator Jose Antonio Passos Palmeira.

An expected confrontation with English umpires in 1961 was averted when the bowler suffered multiple injuries in the preceding Australian summer and was omitted from the team to tour England, but Meckiff had two strong seasons in domestic cricket that forced the Australian selectors to recall him for the Tests against South Africa in 1963 64.

She too expected confrontation.

Where he expected confrontation, he found none.

CAIRO — Poised to dominate the new Parliament here, Egypt's largest Islamist group is putting off an expected confrontation with Egypt's military rulers, keeping its distance from more radical Islamist parties and hoping that the United States will continue to support the country financially, a top leader of the group's political arm said Sunday.