Sentence examples for regular confrontations from inspiring English sources

The court has survived, and thrived, for more than two centuries, despite regular confrontations with the other branches of government.

Walker lobbied hard for Jock Stein to be appointed Scotland manager, despite their regular confrontations over the years in disciplinary matters.

But in mid-October, Vladislav Surkov, the deputy director of the presidential administration, said he saw little threat in allowing the event, remarking that the regular confrontations had become "a sort of burlesque".

The urban mind needs its regular confrontations with tangle, too, a bracing shock that places the world in perspective and informs us, without either warmth or rancour …" Part of the allure of cities is their messiness.

The scuffles that broke out between the emerging audience and the National Party pickets were pretty small beer, compared with the regular confrontations between National Front marchers, the Anti-Nazi League and the police.

He was drawn to Critical Mass, the bicycle rally held on the last Friday of every month in New York and other cities, because it was a sociable night out, and also by the regular confrontations the riders have with the police.

During this run of failures, Albee had regular public confrontations with producers and reviewers that were worsened by stubbornness - a trait the playwright never lost - and drunkenness, which he eventually conquered through Alcoholics Anonymous and the loving encouragement of Jonathan Thomas, a Canadian sculptor with whom he lived in New York for 32 years.

One of the last focuses of regular Israeli-Palestinian confrontation in the West Bank, Nilin has paid a price in blood.

The Freight Transport Association said drivers faced regular and sometimes serious confrontations with stowaways.

On Wednesday, as the official commemorations wound down, opposition protesters moved towards Altamira Square — a regular hotspot in the daily confrontations between demonstrators and police.

There were more confrontations with the regular Joes.