Sentence examples for pitched confrontation from inspiring English sources

By Thursday, Mr. Williams was navigating a difficult strait as he sought to direct anger at police policies like the stop-and-frisk tactic, while resisting calls for a more pitched confrontation.

After nine years as the focal point of a pitched confrontation over urban development, power and basketball, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn began its first day of life on Friday with the hip-hop superstar Jay-Z performing at a sold-out concert while activists outside the arena reminded attendees of the unfulfilled promises of the center's developer.

The president's message to Hatch today resets clear political skirmish lines in the increasingly pitched confrontation over the administration's campaign to ease restrictions and assist the West's resource-extractive industries.

Both made the All-Star Game, but a pitching confrontation will have to wait.

More seriously, both murders represented the sort of highly pitched moral confrontation that could be regarded as a Dutch specialty.

Joe McEwing, a.190 hitter, who had previously managed only two hits in 12 at-bats against Johnson, produced the first double, rapped another in the fifth inning as the climax of a 12-pitch confrontation, then heaped injury upon insult in the seventh by smashing a home run.

Now the Persepolis v Esteghlal Tehran derby, often a scene of crowd violence and angry on-pitch confrontations, is to be transformed into a tool of football diplomacy thanks to plans to stage the match on US soil.

This in turn forced a much more high-pitched confrontation this spring between parties like Japan, which seems to feel that fishery-management problems can be resolved within the status quo, and those who are looking to take the high seas in a profoundly different direction.

After his exhibitions, Feller sits behind card tables and reminisces with old fans who remember the outcomes of games played decades ago, or a moment when he pitched to Rogers Hornsby, or a confrontation with Mickey Mantle.

The government is setting up a powerful new central anti-corruption office with hundreds of new staff, which has pitched the justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, into a furious confrontation with the country's legal establishment.

The quintet is a drama of strenuous confrontations and uneasy alliances, with the piano generally pitched against the four-headed Hydra of the wind group.