Sentence examples for larger confrontation from inspiring English sources

The police were ready for a larger confrontation.

Delay at this point could provoke a larger confrontation in June, when the institution must settle its annual budget.

The news reports said it was unclear if the cooperation with South Korea would also extend to military emergencies, like a larger confrontation on the Korean Peninsula.

"Today's murders are part of a larger confrontation, not between civilizations, no, but between civilization itself and those who are opposed to a civilized world," Kerry said.

Ultimately, the two parties averted a larger confrontation by a gentlemen's agreement to filibuster judicial nominees under only the most egregious circumstances, as when a nominee is overly partisan or obviously unqualified.

But as in the case of sanctions against North Korea, there is no authorization to board ships forcibly at sea, a step officials from many countries warned could touch off a larger confrontation.

Republican concessions, however, may only set up larger confrontations in the coming months over spending, taxes and immigration.

McEwan is, in other words, a world-class expert on human violence -- its rules, roots and reverberations -- and in his more recent work he has set his diagnostic skills to work on larger confrontations.

But the repression is particularly striking now, as the kingdom adopts a more activist foreign policy, risking larger confrontations with Iran, and as Washington hopes to stabilize the region following the expected collapse of the ISIS caliphate.

The script is essentially a patchwork of small and large confrontations, with some breathing room left to small-town sexual activity and homophobia.

During the last two months, the expanded hunt has turned into one of the largest confrontations between Tokyo and Washington since the trade disputes that marked President Clinton's first term.