Sentence examples for militant confrontation from inspiring English sources

A failure would by the same token give a powerful boost to those currents that, though being a minority (as Rouhani's first-round election has proved), still maintain significant positions of power within the regime and are hoping in the failure of the negotiations in order to go back to the good old times of ideological orthodoxy and militant confrontation with the Great Satan.

That is why we are calling on all people to come out tomorrow, to organize a militant confrontation with the so-called 'tea baggers.' Beating back these forces will require us to organize together, take the streets, fight the racists wherever they show their faces and drive them out of every community.

As he grew more militant, his confrontation with the West grew more serious.

Their cautious reemergence comes at a time when civil society as a whole is beginning to reclaim the space formerly monopolized by the Indian army and Pakistani-backed militants, whose confrontations have left more than 60,000 people dead since 1989.

Squeezed between Israeli pressure and Palestinian insubordination, he favours compromise and persuasion of militant groups over confrontation.

Nasser masked essential Egyptian moderation on the Israeli issue with a militant rhetoric of confrontation in order to preserve his standing in the Arab world.

Known for his firebrand rhetoric on the BMA council, Peedell is seen by some as part of a medical militant tendency – seeking confrontation with the government as part of a struggle for the soul of the NHS.

The assault in Madrid is part of a longer confrontation between militant Islam and western cultural and economic imperialism.

As PM, from 1970 to his ejection during yet another mishandled confrontation with militant miners in 1974, Heath negotiated "common market" entry on 1 January 1973, a goal that had defeated the two Harolds, Macmillan and Wilson.

When America first began its confrontation with militant Islam in the form of al Qaeda post 9/11, the jihadists were characterized and described as non-state actors.

For a Sunni community threatened by spillover from Syria and Hezbollah's growing strength, the Future Movement becomes less appealing than Sunni militants willing and able to engage in military confrontation to "protect" the community.