Sentence examples for public confrontation with from inspiring English sources

But African leaders showed little appetite for public confrontation with Mr. Mugabe.

But he seems unwilling to risk a public confrontation with the PRD's nationalistic wing or the country at large.

Unlike Senator Zaretski, who avoided public confrontation with his Republican counerparts, Senator Ohrenstein often appears to relish it.

The governor has avoided a public confrontation with the sheriff, though this flashpoint has led him to emphatically invite one.

Some countries, including the United States, are believed to be weary of having a public confrontation with Ms. Del Ponte.

Washington made no announcement about the operation, which paralleled a similar, far more public confrontation with North Korea two years ago.

His remarks broke with consultants' usual practice of avoiding public confrontations with their employers.

Manager Jerry Manuel, who had two public confrontations with Maine in the last two years, said he was happy that the injured pitcher had found some resolution to his problem.

Repeated public confrontations with him over issues of corruption, governance and the role of the foreign militaries have tested Western patience.

After several private and public confrontations with the president, Dr. West left for Princeton in April, not long after another colleague, K. Anthony Appiah, made the same move.

After a succession of public confrontations with critical theologians and humanists, and a politically motivated excommunication in 1344, Palamas had his teaching systematized in the Hagioritic Tome ("The Book of Holiness"), which became the fundamental manifesto for Byzantine mysticism.