Sentence examples for massive confrontation from inspiring English sources

The Drumcree stand-off in 1998 was shaping up for a massive confrontation until three boys were killed in a firebomb attack in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

"If this man represents the prevailing government opinion in Tehran, we are heading for a massive confrontation with Iran," he said.

Cameron was also being advised that he needed to shift the political agenda away from Europe to the economy, and setting up a massive confrontation with Merkel would only keep immigration at the top of the agenda, thus benefiting Ukip.

Over the past two days and even the last hours before Coulter canceled her planned appearance, groups from both ends of the political spectrum appeared to be gearing up for a massive confrontation on campus.

The game blew up when Sarris fouled Keillor-Dunn on the sidelines and Skondras got involved with Van der Weg, sparking a glut of players to get carried away in a massive confrontation.

With a conservative Congress in the name of deficit reduction seeking to box President Obama into making choices that would stymie the economic growth and job-creation we need, we could use a massive, dramatic confrontation on behalf of the more than 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed today.

With the end of the Cold War, the possibility of a massive nuclear confrontation appears remote, so today many popular doomsday scenarios center on the aggressive use of chemical or biological warfare by rogue nations or terrorist groups.

This was the Quiet Revolution, taking place without bloody confrontations or massive demonstrations in the streets.

The DPP's spokesperson Kenneth Kristensen Berth told Danish media: "These European bureaucrats have been unusually adept at avoiding any possible confrontation with the massive popular opposition to the project.

My final confrontation with a massive sperm whale, in the two-mile-deep waters off the Azores, was both a culmination and a vindication of that half-decade-long adventure.

It followed an off-the-cuff comment Bracknell made to a reporter from Los Angeles on Monday in response to the massive media interest in the confrontation between George and Shellie Zimmerman at her father's house in Lake Mary.