Sentence examples for parties confronted from inspiring English sources

Upon Anastasius' death (Nov. 19, 498), two parties confronted each other one led by Laurentius, an archpriest who favoured Anastasius' policy, and the other under the Sardinian deacon St. Symmachus.

The chairmen of both parties confronted network executives at a panel discussion in Philadelphia on Sunday accusing them of shirking their civic duty by drastically curtailing the number of hours of live coverage and argued that by de-emphasing coverage, they were sending the message that the conventions were not newsworthy.

If the election follows the model of the 2005 vote, Iraqis will vote for long lists of candidates from the main parties (confronting many unfamiliar names) and there will be no allowance for the direct election of members of the Parliament who would represent a given area or district.

"The Court recognizes the time constraints the parties confront in light of the scheduled elections in November 2016," the justices said.

"The Court recognizes the time constraints the parties confront in light of the scheduled elections in November, 2016," read the court's unsigned order, which also set a July 20 deadline for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to issue a definitive ruling on whether the law violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Maybe a villain manages to get rid of (yet not quite kill) a hero for some time with an ace up his sleeve the latter failed to foresee thanks to his (hero's) personality flaw (extremely useful, if the parties confront each other too early in the story).

Tony Blair faced a Labour backlash against his politics of electoral reform yesterday as coalition talks stuttered in Scotland and the party confronted humiliation in Wales.

Beyond its leadership battle, the party confronts longer range problems.

At a future conference – 2013 perhaps – there will be serious trouble for the leadership when the party confronts this difficult fact.

When, on a later expedition, the scouting party confronts a charging polar bear, there's a sudden realization that something is truly rotten in this water-bound paradise.

It was only later, when she began to demand that her own party confront growing Islamophobia, that she noticed significant political moves against her in the shape of vicious internal detractors.