Sentence examples for major confrontation with from inspiring English sources

The country's main Kurdish political party, the Democratic Union Party PYDD, which has ideological ties with PKK), and its affiliated fighting force, the People's Protection Units (YPG), have avoided major confrontation with Assad's forces, which withdrew from the vast majority of Kurdish areas early on in the conflict to avoid fighting a war on two fronts.

No major confrontation with the Taliban has happened since.

I somehow think we'll avoid a major confrontation with Iran.

Citizens United represents his first major confrontation with the court as president.

"No matter who is elected, France will have a major confrontation with the markets," Mr. Baverez said.

In the hope that he could avoid a major confrontation with Congress, he set aside any further attempts at campaign finance reform.

The City Council passed a resolution in support of Occupy L.A., and there have been no major confrontations with the police.

In both major confrontations with the Iraqi army, the militias were forced to negotiate and abandon their weapons.

With vocal support from the City Council, the protesters have been allowed to remain on the lawn outside City Hall for almost two months, without any major confrontations with the police.

A lack of resources spared the region major confrontations with colonialism (by contrast, among the Ngoni led by Mpeseni, where gold was believed to exist, the onslaught was as dramatic as in Zimbabwe and the expropriation as brutal).

In many European and Latin American countries, the struggle for a laical state and a secular society led to major confrontations with the Catholic Church's hierarchy.