Sentence examples for regional confrontations from inspiring English sources

The modern state was born out of the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, and has faced both domestic political upheavals and regional confrontations.

While many observers dismiss the rhetoric as bluster, others warn of "the tyranny of low expectations" when it comes to understanding North Korea, because there have been a number of serious regional confrontations.

The transformation of the formerly localized Arab-Israeli conflintointhethe fulcrum of a much wider regional confrontation with strong religious overtones bodes ill for the region in the years ahead.

It will disturb the balance of forces in the region, he writes, "affecting not only the struggle within Syria but regional confrontation between Sunni and Shia and between Saudi Arabia and Iran".

Chávez had shown himself capable of sparking a regional confrontation and then, by defusing it, appearing as the peacemaker.

With Syria showing no signs of acceding to the demands of the Arab League, including that it stop using violence to suppress antigovernment protests, the regional confrontation deepened.

ALMOST a month after the army ousted Manuel Zelaya, the elected president of Honduras, the danger has grown that a conflict of powers in an otherwise insignificant Central American country may turn into a wider and more worrying regional confrontation.

But this could change very quickly as the Yemen conflict gets plugged into the wider and increasingly warlike regional confrontation between a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia and a Shia counterpart led by Iran.

"This policy fans the flames of the conflict and threatens to change it from a national conflict that can be controlled and solved, into a pointless regional confrontation," Seidemann said.

However, given the likelihood that any military strike would set off a larger regional confrontation and threaten broader American strategic interests, the potential of an Israeli war with Iran would be extremely consequential from a US standpoint.

Dropping bombs on Libya, as Egypt has done, only raises the risk of a larger regional confrontation, and is bound to galvanise the very groups that such air raids claim to neutralise.