Sentence examples for protracted confrontation from inspiring English sources

House Republicans rallied behind their right wing Friday to launch a full-scale assault on President Obama's health-care initiative, setting up a protracted confrontation with Democrats that risks shutting down the government in just 10 days.

The state-run nationalist tabloid Global Times warned in an an editorial on Thursday that China was willing to engage "in a protracted confrontation with Japan".

The strike threat is the first for the labor union since its formation in August of last year after a protracted confrontation with the airline's management.

Israeli troops have opened fire on Palestinian protesters along the Gaza border fence, killing at least six of them, while a Hamas leader proclaimed the start of a new intifada uprising and the two sides braced for protracted confrontation.

The protracted confrontation, though, cost the state millions in security response and reinforcement – bills that will only plunge the economy deeper into crisis and the relationship between government and rancher all the more confrontational.

"The Poles are looking at the likelihood of a protracted confrontation between Russia and NATO and they are now a front-line state .A similar sense of pressure for rapid results is guiding Poland's multi-year 140 billion zloty ($46 billion) military modernisation programme, one of the largest investments in new military kit by any European NATO member.

"The Subpoena brings us one step closer to a protracted, unnecessary legal confrontation which will only distract and detract from the work of our respective offices," Schneiderman wrote.

In its 10-page letter, Schneiderman's office called the subpoena an "unprecedented effort to target ongoing state law enforcement" investigations and potential prosecutions ― one that "brings us one step closer to a protracted, unnecessary legal confrontation".

An emergency government's future would depend on how protracted the violent confrontations turned out to be, and on whether the Palestinians made a unilateral declaration of statehood in the near future.

According to a 2006 report from the Oxford Research Group, "A US military attack on Iranian nuclear infrastructure would be the start of a protracted military confrontation that would probably involve Iraq, Israel and Lebanon as well as the United States and Iran, with the possibility of west Gulf states being involved as well".

As Pence arrived Tuesday in Singapore to represent the United States at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEANN) summit, the question on the minds of all the region's leaders is whether Washington and Beijing are headed into a protracted, long-term economic and strategic confrontation.