Sentence examples for extraordinary confrontation from inspiring English sources

The extraordinary confrontation took place during hearings to find how much in damages Mr. Chee and his sister, both already convicted of libel, owe Mr. Lee and his son, the current prime minister.

What is more helpful to the Palestinians -- to just say we declare war or to do real things like supplying them with what is helpful?" It was an extraordinary confrontation between Egyptians and the religious leader of Al Azhar University, the oldest and most influential seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world.

The extraordinary confrontation -- coming at a time when the United States and Cuba are embroiled in a dispute over whether to return a Cuban boy to his father in Cuba or allow him to stay with relatives in Miami -- broke the normal standards of diplomatic conduct, by which diplomats who become entangled in charges of espionage and are told to leave the country would depart voluntarily.

The lawsuit and the Treasury's unusually detailed statement on Exxon's conduct represented an extraordinary confrontation between a major American company and the U.S. government, made all the more striking because Exxon's former CEO is now in President Donald Trump's Cabinet.

Protests against the airstrikes in Afghanistan erupted into extraordinary confrontations today in the Gaza Strip, when Palestinian security forces opened fire on Palestinian student demonstrators and killed at least two people, including a 13-year-old boy.

The drama of the hunger strike has obscured the marathon prison protest which preceded it and which, even if the fasts had never taken place would have qualified the dispute for description as one of the most extraordinary confrontations between gaolers and the gaoled.

But in an extraordinary public confrontation between bishops, Cardinal Mahony adamantly defended himself on Friday, posting on his blog a letter he had sent to Archbishop Gomez.

What followed — an extraordinary on-air confrontation between Mr. Rove, a Fox commentator, and the network's team of voting analysts — drew renewed focus on the Republican operative's complicated and conflicting roles in this presidential campaign.

Oz still retains an extraordinary roundedness about these confrontations - deploring the casualties, wry about the media's power to organise events here as in other conflicts, keeping his lines open to his friends 'on the other side'.

But, while Simon gets an extraordinary number of laughs out of the confrontation of the bickering comics, he also makes it clear old age is no joke.

It capped a day in which Knight issued an extraordinary public apology for his temper and past confrontations and made it clear he wanted to keep his job, which he has had for 29 seasons.