Sentence examples for major encounter from inspiring English sources

In the first major encounter, the French took the town of Béziers in three hours.

The last major encounter there with outside classical music organizations came when the New York Philharmonic visited in 2008.

Its first major encounter with China was to send troops to force the country to import British opium.

In 1919, the British government had its first major encounter with terrorism, when the Irish Republican Army was established to drive the British out of Ireland.

"There was a major encounter with Boko Haram in Damaturu, and we overran their stronghold and their ammunition site," General Ihejirika said.

In 1811 the last major encounter, the Battle of Tippecanoe, was fought near Lafayette, with Gen. William Henry Harrison the victor.

When Andrea Wittmer, an Ohio State English major, encounters a poet or philosopher she admires in class, she logs on to Facebook and clicks that she's a "fan".

That was the essential message of the court's two earlier major encounters with the issue, University of California v. Bakke, in 1978, and Grutter v. Bollinger, in 2003.

From May 2014 to December 2016, a new round of regional planning [1] was carried out with the guidance of the Guangdong provincial government, and the major encountered problem was the railway network planning.

– White female math major Here, this major encountered a discrepancy between the content she is interested in and the content she encountered; she lacked personal interest in the content emphasized in her department, which contributed to her perception of not belonging in the major.

It was her second major celebrity encounter of the season.