Sentence examples for sea confrontation from inspiring English sources

US navy officials said the Cowpens maneouvered to avoid the collision, but it marked the two nations' most serious sea confrontation in years.

Washington and Beijing have been seeking closer military ties following an incident last December when a US navy cruiser, the USS Cowpens, nearly collided with a ship accompanying China's sole aircraft carrier in the South China Sea – the most serious sea confrontation between the two nations in years.

The Crawford decision deliberately ushered in a sea change in confrontation jurisprudence, outlawing what had been standard operating procedure in thousands of criminal courtrooms every day.

The flotilla's organizers, from Insani Yardim Vakfi, the Free Gaza Movement and other groups, were Webcasting live from the open seas as the confrontation started, using the services of Livestream, a New York-based company that hosts free Webcasts.

With oil already hovering around $93 a barrel, no one in the administration is willing to risk a step that could send prices soaring and, in the worst case, cause a confrontation at sea over a blockade.

JERUSALEM -- A Libyan ship seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza seemed to have shifted course late Tuesday, with the intention of docking at an Egyptian port after Israel warned it and Egypt gave it permission to land there instead, apparently defusing a potential confrontation at sea, Egyptian and Israeli officials said.

The repeated poses of art — young girls dancing, snakes entwining, the moment of the kill in the hunt, the confrontation of sea and single figure — are parts of an ongoing inheritance, a natural language of visual meaning that we all understand without having been consciously instructed in it.

JERUSALEM -- Days after a deadly confrontation at sea when Israeli commandos raided a flotilla trying to challenge the naval blockade of Gaza, a vessel owned by the Free Gaza Movement carrying humanitarian supplies and a small group of pro-Palestinian activists was on the way, scheduled to arrive early on Saturday.

The United States has not purchased oil from Iran for many years, but Mr. Obama has stopped short of advocating a global total embargo, which could lead to confrontations at sea.

This led to confrontations at sea between the Icelandic coastguard and trawlers from Hull and Grimsby.

This led to confrontations at sea between the Icelandic coastguard and trawlers from Grimsby and Hull.