Sentence examples for federal confrontations from inspiring English sources

Max Castro, a senior research associate at the North-South Centhe at the University of Miami, which focuses on immigration and Cuban issues, also said the unrest echoes "state and federal confrontations in the civil rights era.

Andy Robinson, a pub and pizzeria owner in the nearby resort town of Mesquite, said he didn't like bloggers and radio talk show hosts comparing the standoff with deadly federal confrontations at a religious compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993 and a farm house in Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992.

Obama does, however, rate better than do congressional Republicans, his adversaries in recent, fierce confrontations on federal spending.

The NRA and the more radical group Gun Owners of America have used confrontations between federal agents and cantankerous gun-owning dissidents to make the case that only gun ownership stands between individual freedoms and government oppression.

In the nearly six months since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office, Mr. Osorio Chong said, the smarter use of intelligence and efforts to avoid violent confrontations between federal forces and criminal gangs have led to a nearly 20 percent drop in organized crime killings.

In 2014, researchers affiliated with the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) obtained official data regarding confrontations between federal security forces and presumed members of organized crime.

That interview proved prescient Tuesday when Finicum died during a confrontation with federal and state authorities.

It is unclear how many shots were fired and how the confrontation with federal officials escalated in the first place.

Ammon Bundy, whose father became a folk hero among rightwing constitutionalists after his previous confrontation with federal authorities in Nevada, appeared to be a key figure.

According to surveys, most Americans believe Lazaro Gonzalez is breaking the law and exposing Elian to further emotional damage by possibly spurring a confrontation with federal marshals.

A fierce three-hour confrontation between federal forces and drug cartel gunmen hauled up inside a ranch in western Mexico killed at least 42 "presumed criminals" and one police officer, according to the government.