Sentence examples for lengthy confrontation from inspiring English sources

Google was engaged in a lengthy confrontation with Chinese regulators this year over censorship issues and alleged hacking.

But Mr. Neeleman said he expected a lengthy confrontation here, because of the significance that Philadelphia has assumed for all involved.

In the mid-nineties, Monks and Minow scored one of their biggest successes in a lengthy confrontation with Sears, which had underperformed for years and resisted all shareholder-led attempts to force change.

But "we recognize that a lengthy confrontation with N.H.T.S.A. would continue to bring into question the quality of our products and delay our ongoing work of rebuilding the company".

But in a new sign of the twists and turns of this lengthy confrontation, U.N. Annantary-General Kofi Annan said that Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, had told him Wednesday in a 40-minute telephone conversation that the Islamic republic was "interested in serious and constructive negotiations," but with a deadline.

The agency grew out of a lengthy confrontation in the 1970s between farmworkers who lived at a rundown labor camp in Saticoy and the growers who wanted to raze their cramped homes for development.

We know that to effectively deliver sanctions the message needs to be simple, clear and non-negotiable; in practice it is easy to get caught up in a lengthy argument or confrontation.

Three died in encounters with deputies from the Kern County sheriff's office (KCSO), a county-wide force of 905 officers, who in recent years have been involved in a lengthy series of confrontations ending in the deaths and serious injuries of suspects who had physical force, batons, Tasers and police dogs used against them.

A second e-mail from the network to Kadeer's representative confirmed that the interview was canceled and went into a lengthier explanation: Direct confrontation, the network representative said, would be ineffective and even jeopardize the network's long-term relationships in China.

Since neither looks likely, Venezuela seems to be headed for a lengthy period of political confrontation, much of which may be played out on the streets.

His prologue, for example, is a lengthy disquisition on that now-legendary 1989 confrontation in Tiananmen Square between an unarmed student and a Chinese Army tank.