Sentence examples for in the first confrontation from inspiring English sources

In the first confrontation, hundreds of police officers descended upon the East Village to end a brief cat-and-mouse game with protesters who had stopped traffic.

Plutarch only mentions the decimation of 50 legionaries of one cohort as punishment after Mummius' defeat in the first confrontation between Crassus and Spartacus.

The power of the General in the first confrontation is an exposition of raw Manichean authority, with the diplomat's life hanging by the next sentence he utters.

That scary incident took place in June 2005 hardly the first confrontation with the Kazakhs and certainly not the last.

This will be only the first confrontation in what is shaping up as a season-long confrontation between the two networks.

This will be only the first confrontation in what is shaping up as a season-long chess match between the two networks.

This, however, is not the first confrontation over the changes in the land.

It was the second confrontation with the police in two days.

This was the second confrontation on the Canadiens in practice this season.

And apparently, he wasn't intimidated in the first major confrontation of his first N.F.L. preseason camp.

Israel carried out an airstrike Tuesday in Gaza after its troops clashed with Hamas gunmen along the border in the first armed confrontation since a cease-fire took effect in June.