Sentence examples for fraught confrontation from inspiring English sources
In the fraught confrontation of West and East, staged on battlefields in the 19th century, or on school playgrounds and in cafeterias in late-20th-century San Jose, the continuing story is one of inequality.
"They can put you in jail," one lyric goes, a reference to the increasingly fraught confrontations between young demonstrators and police, "but not your dreams and hopes".
He thinks that the Left-Right denunciations of the para-militarization of law enforcement in the first few nights in Ferguson reflect a growing consensus on how to handle these fraught racial confrontations.
This is a confrontation fraught with risk but is one Darling and Brown cannot afford to lose.
Mr. Crandall's tenure as chief executive had been fraught with labor confrontations, and Mr. Carty had spent years trying to defuse the tension.
The most curious offering was a scene from Act III of Verdi's "Otello," the emotionally fraught and musically complex confrontation between the Moor and his unfairly accused wife, Desdemona.
Bilateral relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been fraught with hostility, tension and confrontation.
ISTANBUL — Turkey's Parliament on Thursday authorized further military action against Syria as Turkish forces fired a second round of artillery across the border, threatening to escalate a confrontation that has highlighted Turkey's fraught double role as it tries to stay out of direct involvement in the fight against President Bashar al-Assad while offering haven and support to the rebels.
The fraught relationship between Russia and the West, which was supposed to improve following an agreement over Ukraine, has descended instead into renewed acrimony after a series of tense military and diplomatic confrontations.
Relations have been so fraught that Gen. Ray Odierno, who recently left his post as the senior American commander in Iraq, established a series of checkpoints, maintained by American, Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers, to head off confrontations, either accidental or planned.
