Sentence examples for permanent confrontation from inspiring English sources

This penchant for government by permanent confrontation has reaped its predictable reward.

It will take toughness and subtlety to ensure they do not lock into a permanent confrontation — not more bluster from anyone.

Expressed in what we call the new European pacifism we are at present armed like madmen, with weapons grossly disproportionate to rational military ends, standing in permanent confrontation with Russia.

Some Venezuelan critics of Mr. Chavez, like former President Carlos Andres Perez, have dismissed the campaign as part of a "policy of permanent confrontation" intended to distract the country's 24 million people from mounting economic and social problems.

The New Yorker, January 3 , 1983P. 57 Expressed in what we call the new European pacifism we are at present armed like madmen, with weapons grossly disproportionate to rational military ends, standing in permanent confrontation with Russia.

Throughout his rule, President Castro remained in almost permanent confrontation with the United States - and it with him.

He aligned Cuba with the Soviet Union and sustained a near-permanent confrontation with the United States, sending both doctors and soldiers overseas to burnish Cuba's revolutionary character.

Where does that leave Norquist and his theory of permanent partisan confrontation?

An EU restricted to Western Europe would forever have had to deal with a divided system in Europe: in Western Europe integration, in Eastern Europe the old system of balance of power with the permanent danger of nationalist ideologies and confrontations.

What remains is a sense of permanent crisis and the fear that another confrontation between the government and the opposition is inevitable.

He called Mr. Hussein a dictator, "a student of Stalin" and a murderer, and most important described no solution other than Mr. Hussein's permanent removal from office that would end the confrontation.