Sentence examples for major encounters from inspiring English sources

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.

See China on the eve of the first major encounters between east and west in this blockbuster epic that fills the vast new exhibition gallery of the British Museum with everything from portraits of eunuchs to a ship's bell from the fleet that China sent to Africa.

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

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

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

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

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.

A modern FPS will checkpoint you before every major encounter, whereas in Tech Gone Bad each death means a return to the start of the level.

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

His first major encounter with show business was as a student at the Royal Ballet school - a Billy Elliott before his time - and he appeared as a mouse in the British premiere of Cinderella with Moira Shearer in 1948.