Sentence examples for intriguing confrontation from inspiring English sources

It adds up to a huge challenge for Australia's captain, Michael Clarke, as he enters an intriguing confrontation with his South African counterpart, Smith.

But then the most intriguing confrontation of all could come when Ms. Busch takes the stand and is cross-examined by Mr. Pellicano.

But the intriguing confrontation between Robb Nen and Nick Johnson, which surely did not sell any tickets to this game between the Yankees and the San Francisco Giants, materialized in the taut eighth inning.

Trinidad and Vargas share a growing disdain for each other that could set the tone for Saturday night's 154-pound title-unification bout, an intriguing confrontation between two young fighters who are risking unblemished records and formidable reputations.

The amalgam of Occupy Wall Street protesters, Ron Paul supporters and even Mitt Romney backers has led to some intriguing confrontations on the streets.

In addition to setting up an intriguing courtroom confrontation between Massino and his former acting boss, Holder's decision gives Massino a chance to score some brownie points with the feds, and perhaps gain their support for a release from the life sentence he is now serving.

A relish of pickled quince and grilled red onions adds welcome pizazz to seared foie gras, and, in an intriguing Sino-Italian confrontation, Mr. Citron stuffs semolina and sake dough with mushrooms and prosciutto, then steams the dumplings in a truffled mushroom broth.

Early records of Buddhist presence in China depict the arrival of this foreign religion as at once intriguing and unsettling a confrontation with cultural difference, not as an objectively observable fact, but as a subjectively troubling experience of failing common sense (Sakai 1997).

One of the more intriguing elements in the confrontation between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee has been whether the needles, syringes, gauze pads and vials that McNamee turned over to federal authorities contain Clemens's DNA or traces of steroids or human growth hormone.

In fact, Sontag's confrontation with her own ordinariness is the most intriguing element of Rieff's story.

The most intriguing of those strategies appears to be straight out of another era of White House confrontations with Communist leaders intent on building nuclear arsenals: President John F. Kennedy's response to the Cuban missile crisis.